NBN is connected!!

[Dave The Man]

F*ck Abbott & Turnbull, they utterly f*cked up here. They only see infrastructure spending in terms of roads & subsdizing the mining industry.

Those 2 ***** have F**ked Australia Right Up

[HAL]

How far up?

[think positive]

We've got Optus cable & not sure of the speeds but very fast.

We also had NBN installed on the outside wll (not connected) and have about 15 more months left. I'm not doing anything for 12 months then I'll start looking. Hopefully the competition will have improved prices (and services).

Like a lot of others I'll have to pay more for an inferior product.

F*ck Abbott & Turnbull, they utterly f*cked up here. They only see infrastructure spending in terms of roads & subsdizing the mining industry.

Give me the PMG anyday

so the testra and optus lines will get cut off? gees, not much of a choice then!

[stui magpie]

Pre the NBN, Telstra and Optus were the only ones who had cable via their pay TV rollout. Optus had some copper landlines but the vast majority was Telstra. That meant pretty much every other player was just a reseller, buying wholesale and selling retail, even if they were able to put their own equipment into the Telstra exchanges.

Now, the NBN owns the network and they only sell space wholesale, everyone else, including Telstra and Optus, are just resellers.

What really bother me is that the NBN can't seem to figure out how to use the Telstra and Optus cable effectively, so I may go from a cable connection to some version of ADSL.

[think positive]

[stui magpie]

^

How much of your connections are hard wired (blue ethernet cable) and how much wi fi?

If you've got 2 people streaming movies, while also using their mobiles on wifi to check facebook etc, plus you on the PC that's going to drag your wifi.

I've got the PC and PS4 hardwired so it's only phones and tablets using the wifi

[Culprit]

^^Off may Cable modem I am hard wired into most rooms of the house. I did this before stable WiFi. Now I have both options and as there is basically only 2 users my speeds are constant high whether I am streaming or downloading via WiFi or Ethernet. At the moment I am doing some game updates through Steam and constant 4mbs (7mbs peak) and that would be what they are pushing out. Need more speed.

We should be getting 100 down as Standard, but that won't happen as that would put Murdoch's Foxtel out of business.

[think positive]

[Culprit]

Latest update is NBN is having major issues with HCF services and Foxtel Cable. It's like a major highway and all roads are blocked. Foxtel will change everyone onto Satellite by 2020. The NBN Cluster **** continues.

[Dave The Man]

Kiwi's are getting Internet that is 20 Times Faster then we Get for pretty much the Same Price.

Shows what a Joke the NBN is

[Dave The Man]

We got our Fixed from Download Speeds of about 18-22mbps now I can get between 40-70mbps. Though Average between 50-66mbps

Said was problem with Pit out the Front that was main reason why it was slow

[think positive]

interesting and good news Dave, ill have to remember that.

[Tannin]

We got our Fixed from Download Speeds of about 18-22mbps now I can get between 40-70mbps. Though Average between 50-66mbps

Said was problem with Pit out the Front that was main reason why it was slow

Great. But a bit faster would be better. I reckon you'd want to crank it up a bit so that you can download the whole Internet every night without having to sit up too late.

[Skids]

I just got a letter from Telstra. NBN is ready, I just call up to arrange the changeover, no change to; my plan, bill or contract period.
Get a 'Telstra Smart Modem Gen 2' included.

Will see how it goes I guess. Never had an issue with current set up. Always been a great service at a good price from what I can tell.
I have to have Telstra, no other providers work where I work. Been like that for 20 years, are other servers not interested in broader coverage?

[Tannin]

Remote area coverage is very expensive. No telco provides it willingly. Telstra does it because it is required to under the terms of service obligation. This requirement was placed on Telstra as part of the original deal when Telstra was privatised.

Tesltra loses a big pile of money every year servicing places like outback Queensland. Yes, they are the only provider in the outback and get 100% of the available customers, but all put together that only adds up to the same number of customers you'd get in a couple of city suburbs. It's nothing like enough revenue to make up for the cost of the towers and links.

Given that they have to service Thargominda and Birdsville anyway, Telstra make a virtue out of necessity and publicise the reach and quality of their network, which is indeed far better than Optus' and light years better than Vodafail's. They can and do charge more for it.

This is why Skids and I, and other people who live in cities but regularly visit the outback, grin and pay the extra. For us, it's Telstra or go without.