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I feel you. Here in Australia: $90/month nets you “100/40mb”, which is really more like “~85mb down, 25 up but only a quiet night, if you’re next to the router
by FridgeSeal 5y ago
I feel you.
Here in Australia: $90/month nets you “100/40mb”, which is really more like “~85mb down, 25 up but only a quiet night, if you’re next to the router, and it hasn’t rained within the last week”.
- joshschreuder 5y agoIt’s much, much better than it used to be at least (depending on where you live + NBN technology choice of course). And yet still completely hamstrung by the mess the current government made of the original NBN plan. If you live in an area that can get HFC, FTTP, FTTN etc. it’s possible these days to get a pretty consistent 1000/50 for $150/month. Those fibre services are pretty stable in my experience, definitely a million times better than the old broadband which as you put got destroyed by bad weather and distance from the exchange.
- evanjonr 5y agoDid you mean FTTC instead of FTTN? FTTN can rarely get close to the max of 100/40 in best case scenarios.
- joshschreuder 5y agoI did indeed, thanks. Too many acronyms!
- FridgeSeal 5y agoThe area of Sydney I live in has HFC-based NBN offered only, and it still falls over if it rains too much. Apparently you can pay money to have fibre routed to your house from the nearest node/etc, but I rent, so I’m not going to do that.
- joshschreuder 5y agoYou can but it's EXPENSIVE. Something like $5k-20k depending on residence and technology choice you have.
- haydio 5y agoIf you have to be "next to the router" than it's a problem with your infrastructure, not then NBN
- FridgeSeal 5y agoThe point is, that even if I were to plug my computer directly into the router, I'm not getting _good_ speeds, I simply wanted to head off comments like "have you tried 5Ghz networks? Have you tried a quieter band? Have you tried x/y/z other thing?".