Thread: Got NBN at work what a joke

That's an excellent expert report which clearly spells out how backwards looking the decision was to step back from FTTP to FTTN. It was a purely political decision made by incompetent politicians with no real understanding of how the future will become.
FTTN with a copper connection to the premises is a really dumb idea. It should have been fibre to the premises like the rest of the world. Our internet is now slower than Latvia or Kenya, I read.
In the future we taxpayers are going to face a huge bill to fix this unnecessary mess.
It is possible to pay extra for fibre to the premises I believe so I recommend you do it.
My work, which has more than 600 laptops connected, paid to get fibre all the way and has upgraded the internal connections and the improvement was dramatic.
If the NBN is ever offered in my area I'll be paying extra for fibre. Do it once and do it right, as tradies say.
I won't comment further on the politics as we all know who to blame.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

You got fibre?
I have.

It's over rated. Gav's FTTN is ripping along faster than my FTTH. I can post up some worringly slow speeds.
NBNco infrastructure is just fine. It's your ISP who are responsible for the poor service. Something to do with lack of bandwidth.

The ISP can only offer what the NBN can provide. Your ISP can give you much more than what Gavs can, you're only slower because your ISP wants you slower. They can set you up a hell of a lot faster than Gav if they wish and you pay.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

The ISP can only offer what the NBN can provide. Your ISP can give you much more than what Gavs can, you're only slower because your ISP wants you slower. They can set you up a hell of a lot faster than Gav if they wish and you pay.

Yes, I am on a 12/1 Mb/s plan. I predominately do foruming and email. I guess the only time I need speed is streaming internet radio, which does not require something as fast as 12/1 Mb/s.
Now, tell me why I need to pay more for extra speed when I often get weekend speeds similar to this:


Oh, this is FTTH, that is "fibre to the home".

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Yes, I am on a 12/1 Mb/s plan. I predominately do foruming and email. I guess the only time I need speed is streaming internet radio, which does not require something as fast as 12/1 Mb/s.
Now, tell me why I need to pay more for extra speed when I often get weekend speeds similar to this:


Oh, this is FTTH, that is "fibre to the home".

Thats bad! They need to fix that, definitely worth a complaint ticket.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Thats bad! They need to fix that, definitely worth a complaint ticket.

Yep. That was the worst it has been.
By the time I had got on to them, all was fine. I have better things to do than hear a recorded message tell me how important my call is.
My point is, and I think that proves it, is FTTH is not as rosey as people might think. I would have been far happier keeping my old ADSL without the power supply and fibre connection box hanging on my wall.
I don't need any superfast internet.

I will add, at the moment I am using FTTN and it's working fine.

We had the NBN installed a month or so ago. Previously cable.
I'll let the screenshots tell the story, 2 are pre NBN & the last is tonight.
NBN is fairly constant, rarely over 5 download now !!!
Can I go back please....................

its pretty simply guys. if your internet isnt performing to what your paying for, log a fault and get it fixed. it's got nothing to do with nbn vs adsl

The thing that annoys those of us who live outside major towns and cities is that with all the arguments about FTTP/FTTN, everyone ignores the fact that we were never going to get FTTanywhere, but wireless if we were lucky and satellite if not.

If you get wireless yo9u are lucky - until the wireless is inevitably overloaded, if you get satellite you get a minimum of 500+ms latency, an absolute maximum data quantity of less than the average annual increase in data use by fixed line users, plus an unreliable service that chews power and stops working when it rains (either at your place or at the other end) and is plagued with disorganisation, software issues, and obfuscation.

John