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

Just came back from Thailand..
Makes me angry... 200MBs fibre connections, no data caps or penalty and $20 Aus a month!

And WiFi bloody everywhere!!!!

interesting approach by Telecube to combat congestion:

• Exceed monthly allowance shaped to 1/1Mbps
• Daily metered data usage max 10% of monthly plan allowance
• Exceed daily limit shaped to 10% of service speed until midnight
• Hourly metered data usage max 5% of daily limit during PEAK hours
• Exceed hourly PEAK limit and shaped to 10% of service speed until end of the hour
• Daily usage counters reset at midnight
• Hourly usage counters reset at the start of each hour
• Limits in plain numbers;
  
  • 1000GB Plan = 100GB Daily (6am – midnight) / 5GB Hourly (6pm – midnight)
  • 500GB Plan = 50GB Daily (6am – midnight) / 2.5GB Hourly (6pm – midnight)
  • 100GB Plan = 10GB Daily (6am – midnight) / 500MB Hourly (6pm – midnight)

From Whirlpool:
Telecube - NBN Offer - 100/40 1000GB $69 - Part 2 - Other broadband - Whirlpool Forums

They seem to be quite good on the customer service front.
Don't know why I am bothering to look at this stuff...I am 2 years off getting NBN.

Originally Posted by SBD4

interesting approach by Telecube to combat congestion:


From Whirlpool:
Telecube - NBN Offer - 100/40 1000GB $69 - Part 2 - Other broadband - Whirlpool Forums

They seem to be quite good on the customer service front.
Don't know why I am bothering to look at this stuff...I am 2 years off getting NBN.

way too complicated

And expensive.
NBN. I'd suggest 99% of the population don't need it and half of those who do, don't want to pay for it.
It's handy, at best.

Originally Posted by biggin

And expensive.
NBN. I'd suggest 99% of the population don't need it and half of those who do, don't want to pay for it.
It's handy, at best.

Don't agree sorry (but that's ok ), with streaming services and catch up TV become more popular, and growing at a very fast rate, the NBN will become more nesesary as time goes on for those (like me) that end up watching more streaming TV than regular TV. Add in a teenager or two who likes to use online gaming and it soon becomes a winner in a lot of households.

While my ADSL2+ connection was just capable of this most of the time, the NBN has greatly improved things - and my previous connection was very good compared to what most others have.

We burn through around 700 gig a month at the moment all in glorious HD without pauses, jitters, drop in quality etc which crappier connections tend to do.

Once you've got it, it would be very hard to go back.

Your point on cost is a good one though and it depends a lot on what you currently use and pay for. If you just surf the net a bit and do emails, the plan shown previously is massive overkill. If you use the Internet like we do, then it's good value - if they can provide the speeds claimed which a lot can't (again, thankfully ours does). We are still miles ahead now since dropping Foxtel and getting Stan and Netflix. Both these services allow multiple log ons all the time, so we split these with family elsewhere - costs us all $8 a month per household for both services plus a decent internet connection - this hasn't cost us any more than our previous ADSL2+ connection, so we are around $80 a month better off with how we watch things now overall.

Yes. It's handy.

Originally Posted by biggin

And expensive.
NBN. I'd suggest 99% of the population don't need it and half of those who do, don't want to pay for it.
It's handy, at best.

It
all depends on your "need". If you want to interact with government at almost any level, it is almost essential to have an internet connection. The same goes for an increasing number of companies. It is becoming essential for education at secondary and higher levels. If you want to tender for any commonwealth contract, it must be done on line.

The NBN network sets out to make usable internet available for all Australians. Without it, a substantial proportion of the population would be unable to access any reasonably effective or workable connection in the foreseeable future.

Whether it is achieving this goal is rather questionable, with the mandate to become profitable requiring them to concentrate mainly on the easy to service customers, who probably would have been well connected by commercial services anyway, and the very substandard service provided by satellite and some wireless services. In addition to this the decision to have a large number of points of interconnection has greatly reduced competition, and there are a lot of aspects to how the NBN works that could be much improved, including their accountability and their policy of secretiveness.

Going just fine here...