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> I am with one of the world’s biggest telcos, Telstra... You have my condolences :( That's so bizarre to have that kind of low speed on fibre, though. I'm ha

> I am with one of the world’s biggest telcos, Telstra... You have my condolences :( That's so bizarre to have that kind of low speed on fibre, though. I'm half an hour by car / bus from the 4th biggest city, and I'm reliably getting 10Mbps upload over the copper lines. (I was getting the full 20Mbps of my plan, until NBN recently botched the repair of a temporary line fault - their repair guy even said it was the legal required minimum speed and he wasn't going to try any harder than that.) Is iiNet not available where you are? Though since it's all NBN now, the reseller telco shouldn't make any difference. That 6th biggest city is awesome though - if I didn't live here, I'd move there. 3rd biggest is a nice place too.

quink 6y ago
It’s “Telstra Velocity”. It just got a special exemption to not make it operate like the NBN renewed because, and I paraphrase the federal government’s words: “because they couldn’t be arsed and if we didn’t renew it they’d turn off the Internet and blame it on us”. I too would like to have regulatory exemptions extended indefinitely with the excuse being that I can’t be arsed, but elected officials can just tell people to use mobile data instead like my local one did. Charging taxpayers more than $30,000 over a year. No other providers are available. Technically OCCOM and probably still Exetel, but they can’t offer faster speeds and have to charge more than even Telstra. My most recent communication with the federal communications department included this wonderful phrase: > “Please note that this legislation applies only to the capabilities of the network. The plans offered to individual consumers may be limited to slower speeds.”