Thread: National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

Well, after hearing all the horror stories about swapping over to the NBN, I decided to bite the bullet and JUST DO IT. No problems at all the changeover went smoothly and I don't see much difference in the speed (maybe a little faster) but the loading up is snappier, so far after twenty minutes on the NBN, very happy.
ps. I was on ADSL2 before.

I just signed up.

I am in "Regional NSW". the only thing i can get is FTTN, with a max available download/upload speed of 25/5Mbps. Literally 10 houses down the road and they have have FTTH with a max of 100/40Mbps.

even though im 2 mins from the main part of town which has had ADSL2 for aaaaages the best i have been able to get here is ADSL+ with speeds of 8/1Mbps theoretical. Actual speeds are more like 1/0.1... all this for only $80/month!!

So I've just signed up for 25/5 NBN for $50. Even if it's the same crappy speed, at least its cheaper. And hopefully it doesn't drop out as much.

Cheers

Dan

I'm 5 Ks from the GPO. There's no sign that I'll be getting it any time soon.

Hi Dan,

Are you on friendly terms with the 10th house down the road?

You could set up a small wireless network between your house and theirs and go halves in thier FTTH NBN!

silly me,, I was waiting for the green/blue cable to be pulled past the house,,,,
no such luck! down the cross street 100 yards away to wherever the nearest node(are these visible or in a pit?) is,,
only a 7 day wait on connection due to the house using a Medical Alert box

The connection point to the yellow/blue/green fluorescent cable is in the pit.
Not necessarily the nearest pit.

I know of a school (not mine) which is suffering under download speeds of just 1 mbs. There is NBN to a house in the street, the school is willing to pay any reasonable charge, but NBN is refusing to co-operate. You would think schools would get priority for Internet upgrades in a supposedly clever country, but apparently not so.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I know of a school (not mine) which is suffering under download speeds of just 1 mbs. There is NBN to a house in the street, the school is willing to pay any reasonable charge, but NBN is refusing to co-operate. You would think schools would get priority for Internet upgrades in a supposedly clever country, but apparently not so.

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Sounds slightly odd. Is the school in a difficult to install area with steep slopes or long runs?

A local school here was in a similar predicament and ended up paying a sum (around 3k if what I was told is correct) to get the install done outside of the schedule. However that was in a flat area with about 100 meters from the previous schedules finishing property. I will ask the people involved to get the specific terminology that needs to be requested