National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

**Mick_Marsh** · 19th June 2016, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

In Thailand 8 years ago I was averaging 100 Mbs at work. One day Australia might catch up.

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100Mbs internet has been available in Australia for many years.
I have 100Mbs available to me here, if I want to pay. I don't need it so I don't pay for it.
Most businesses I have worked for have had those speeds on their fibre connections. They decided they needed them so they paid for them.
If you really feel the need for those speeds, there is nothing stopping you putting on your own fibre connection.
https://www.tpg.com.au/fibre-optic

Not fast enough for you? What about 400Mb internet?
Maxinet::Fibre400

**SBD4** · 29th June 2016, 07:53 AM

A good article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innov...stephen-baxter

**Rob2** · 14th July 2016, 07:22 AM

It's getting closer to me, so.

Does anyone have it ?

Do you have to pay to have it connected ?

Is it worth it ?

Is it optional ?

Thanks.

**jonesfam** · 14th July 2016, 08:41 AM

What sort of NBN?
Fixed line or Wireless?

We have wireless, the antenna, NBN box & modem was all included in our contract price.

It is a bit faster than our old 3/4G system, it is cheaper but the main plus for us is we now have shed loads of band width (is that the correct term).
We used to get 120GB or is that MB a month & with the kids we were forever using it all well before the end of the month.
We now we get 1000 MB or GB per month & so far haven't used half that a month even with the kids having pretty much free range to use it.

5 kids X 5 tablets, 2 x computers, 1 X Xbox one & 1 X WII U all going for it.

Jonesfam

**Rob2** · 14th July 2016, 09:03 AM

I have no idea what they are going to offer me yet.

But I just wonder what it is going to cost ?

I am happy with what I have and don't want to be forced into anything.

**p38arover** · 14th July 2016, 09:49 AM

So do I. My current cable download speed is 30 Mbps. For the same price with NBN, it seems my download speed will be 12 Mbps.

That's not an improvement.

Some questions are answered here: https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadb...u-Need-to-Know

**strangy** · 14th July 2016, 10:33 AM

We just switched over this week.
Absolutely no difference in speed to the old system so far😤
This may change in the coming months when the change over becomes mandatory for our area.
But we did get a new modem and phone free.

**Homestar** · 14th July 2016, 10:48 AM

Yeah, this is one of my concerns. I currently regularly get 15MBS download speed and don't want it to drop when I connect to then NBN. I have seen that Telstra advertise different speed plans - up to 100MBS if you want to pay. I want to see if something better than the standard 20 is on offer in my area.

I need 1000 meg a month - we burn nearly 800 a month now.

**rocmic** · 14th July 2016, 10:57 AM

This may not be entirely relevant. We got NBN almost two years ago, the old NBN fibre to the house. Cost for top speed (100Mbits) plus phone, unlimited download is less than I was paying for Telstra cable (30 Mbits and 500Gbyte download limit).
Connection is free and eventually mandatory (I think about 12 months after it becomes available).
I only had Telstra cable because I could not get ADSL.
Cheers
Mike

**frantic** · 14th July 2016, 11:13 AM

When we hooked up to NBN in our area it is fibre to home, we had speed options, I went the faster 100m/sec with iiNet and 1000gig download. It was about $10 a month more than our old ADSL plan and was soo much better with 3 kids and 2 adults all using the net. No slow down if another person is using a heavy site like YouTube or Facebook or fpg.

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