what size dish do you use John?Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
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what size dish do you use John?Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
I use Exetel Russ. Not sure of their coverage areas but I'm happy with their price and service so far. The only criticism is with my router which can struggle at times (it was only $40!) NBN co don't make it very easy to determine what routers will work, and Exetel wouldnt provide a whole lot of info as to why another router that they sold (if you asked for it) wouldn't work on my connection, even though on paper it seemed it would.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russrobe
Cheers
Dan
I haven't measured it, I think it is about 80cm. A bit smaller than the ISS dish which is 90cm, and quite a bit smaller than the ABG one, which is 120cm (I now have three dishes on my roof - the ISS one is supposed to have been removed, but it hasn't happened - the equipment belongs to the NBN).Quote:
Originally Posted by incisor
John
iiNet are advertising unlimited NBN for $89.95.
I agree though, that the NBN is a rort. Petty politics wrecks Australian infrastructure again. Skyrocketing costs of power, electricity, water, road tolls and now connectivity. All the basic necessities. It's outrageous.
Has the NBN wireless since Feb this year, can't be happier with it, and super fast and there upgrading next year the speed, so even better.
I moved house recently and just had nbn connected.
Previous address was fibre direct to the house and new one is via a pre existing optus cable. Speeds now are higher than they were in the previous address.
I have a 25mpbs plan (tpg) and did the ookla speed test which went up to about 24mpbs.
Tech who did the install said that while this system is all good now, in ten years time it will be over capacity and a lot of money will have to be spent again.
Unfortunately they haven't signed a contract in my area yet. Or else I'd definitely be staying with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrLandy
Is the Optus cable copper?Quote:
Originally Posted by Debacle
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My daughter pays for 100Mbps second in East Corromal which has the original NBN direct to house.
She gets much less at peak periods , note on the original NBN.
So IMHO the problem comes down to the bandwidth paid for by the ISP not the copper. From the comments I have sen here and elsewhere this is the main problem currently with NBN.
ie the ISPs did not plan for the increase in demand from Netflix and other streamers and now have a business problem that their rates are too low, particularly for unlimited Gigs as people are actually using it.
Regards Philip A
This has always been an issue with consumer grade internet. As a simple explanation for those who do not already know:-Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipA
If you are selling a service with, let's say 25Mbps speed, to 1000 customers, you need to buy from your NBN and upstream (NBN is only the link from the customer's house to your retailer) links with 25,000Mbps - right? Wrong! Because you can bank on the fact that not all of those 1000 customers will be using the full bandwidth every millisecond, you only need a fraction of that. The fraction is called the contention ratio, and might typically be between 10 and 20. And this is the major difference between retailers, other than the service they give.
Continuous streaming services such as Youtube, netflix etc represent a change in consumer behaviour that has been quite rapid, and has almost certainly caught a lot of RSPs by surprise.
John