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

Well, the NBN is on!

I was watching YouTube when the Internet went off and the modem went red. By the time I wandered up the street and chatted to the guys connecting it, wandered back, connected the new Modem and switched it on, the NBN was on.

So, how does it go I hear you ask? The test below shows it - this is on the wireless as well, I've yet to check it on the Ethernet running to my Sons computer.

The connection is a 100/40 and to say I'm happy with 89/38 is an understatement... . I was hoping for around 30 down. Now I am one of the first to be connected to this node, but they said there's only 45 homes max that will be connected to this one - we are near a park, so not surrounded by houses and the way the estate was put in, the next one down will see much more traffic, so we have got lucky I think.

Nice! I wish we could get that sort of speed! Not that i really have anything I'd use it for...

Yeah, I have no real use for it either, but the speed boost was included in the package and after hearing all the doom and gloom about slow connections, I opted for the fastest available as I was sure I would be lucky to get 20 down.

So we now have double the data (1000 gig) at nearly 8 times the speed for the same money as before. Wonder how long the 1000 gig will last...?

What it will help me with is uploading videos - that was painfully slow before, so looking forward to seeing how that goes.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yeah, I have no real use for it either, but the speed boost was included in the package and after hearing all the doom and gloom about slow connections, I opted for the fastest available as I was sure I would be lucky to get 20 down.

So we now have double the data (1000 gig) at nearly 8 times the speed for the same money as before. Wonder how long the 1000 gig will last...?

What it will help me with is uploading videos - that was painfully slow before, so looking forward to seeing how that goes.

How's life in the fast lane Gav after getting that crappy FTTN hooked up?

Originally Posted by SBD4

How's life in the fast lane Gav after getting that crappy FTTN hooked up?

Don't know about Gav's FTTN but my FTTH is rather poor at the moment.
It's supposed to be 12Mb/s, not 0.25Mb/s. And I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Don't know about Gav's FTTN but my FTTH is rather poor at the moment.
It's supposed to be 12Mb/s, not 0.25Mb/s. And I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Joys of strangling the fibre by sticking copper on the end?

Originally Posted by SBD4

How's life in the fast lane Gav after getting that crappy FTTN hooked up?

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Don't know about Gav's FTTN but my FTTH is rather poor at the moment.
It's supposed to be 12Mb/s, not 0.25Mb/s. And I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Yeah Mick, mines running slow too, but Friday nights usually are. Only 49Mbps tonight... . Test was performed on wireless with the iPad while watching Netflix on TV and the young bloke gaming on line too.

We just went FTTN - not a lot of strangling going on

Wireless onto the home network..

To be fair. We are the only one on that node at this stage!