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

Received a phone call from a salesperson at our nearest Telstra Business Centre, saying that broadband was nearly ready for connection in our street. She wanted to email me their NBN ready plans for my perusal so I said, fine but I wish you the best of luck with that as AFAIK Telstra Email is down nation wide at the moment. Two weeks later I still haven't received that email.

The nearest node is 500m away and the rollout stops at the council boundary just down the street. Friends 1km further down the street in the next council district won't be able to get any kind of broadband because of that, and they aren't remote enough to get satellite NBN. They can only get overpriced mobile internet.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Similar story here. They're rolling it out now and the node is 7 houses away...

Basil135s is 10 Meters from his driveway..

Yeah, 2 doors away for me.

Originally Posted by bee utey

Received a phone call from a salesperson at our nearest Telstra Business Centre, saying that broadband was nearly ready for connection in our street. She wanted to email me their NBN ready plans for my perusal so I said, fine but I wish you the best of luck with that as AFAIK Telstra Email is down nation wide at the moment. Two weeks later I still haven't received that email.

The nearest node is 500m away and the rollout stops at the council boundary just down the street. Friends 1km further down the street in the next council district won't be able to get any kind of broadband because of that, and they aren't remote enough to get satellite NBN. They can only get overpriced mobile internet.

The inconsistancies of the whole thing are a complete head ****. If it's not available to you premises, then almost by definition, you're remote. If they are considered too close, then they should have a local connection. I feel for them... No Netflix...

How do you live without Rick and Morty anyway?

No idea Chucky. No info about nodes I can find except that It's all a total sham.

Don't connect with Telstra, they charge separately for downloads and uploads.

iiNet aren't much better. No customer loyalty discount despite 20 years continuous connection. I said no point upgrading bc speed so slow and price higher for NBN. They said bad luck you'll be cut off.

It's all too easy when you're supplying the feed and everyone needs it to survive.

Tired and cranky now. Ciao.

iiNet hasn't existed 25 years

Originally Posted by Tombie

iiNet hasn't existed 25 years

Huh?

iiNet Limited is Australia's second-largest internet service provider with more than 1.3 million customers as of 15 August 2011. It was acquired by TPG Telecom in September 2015 for $1.56 billion, but retained its corporate name.

https://www.iinet.net.au/

It's only existed 23

Originally Posted by bee utey

Huh?



https://www.iinet.net.au/

Yeah, previously Westnet, now owned and operated by IiNet. I was one of iinets original readymade customers.

Originally Posted by Homestar

How do you live without Rick and Morty anyway?

Haha cannot wait for the 3rd season. Easily the best reason to have internet.