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For those wondering about what "flavour" of NBN they will be connected to, here's a VERY useful website to look up:

http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com/

 

Simply zoom in to find your property and, using the legend in the bottom right corner, you'll notice everything is colour coded so it will show the unofficial estimated download speed range you might expect to see. At the bare minimum it will tell you what type of connection is planned to your property/area.

 

Thanks for that link, very helpful.

 

Turns out I am on HFC so that is something i guess, still wish i had a purple dot and not a brown one. In saying that it could be a lot worse.

 

Seriously, what a cluster **** this is. I have had 100mbps for over a decade on cable, and some people can still only get 25mbps today!

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Thanks for that link, very helpful.

 

Turns out I am on HFC so that is something i guess, still wish i had a purple dot and not a brown one. In saying that it could be a lot worse.

 

 

Seriously, what a cluster **** this is. I have had 100mbps for over a decade on cable, and some people can still only get 25mbps today!

 

It's a ****ing shambles. Same here, i had a 100mbps fibre-optic line for the last 5 years via iinet, downloaded at 10 MB/s. moved state and now my grand new NBN coming will probably give me the same, or fractionally more speed than my crappy 4G reception now gets.... thank the grand plan to get the punters to stump up the $$ for shit nbn to start with, and use that to fund the upgrades to the network to come. (which probably wont come for years...)

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so you mean they connected NBN to the foxtel cable instead of the copper ? this is interesting, my new place is wired for foxtel, we don't use it but the previous owner of the house did, there's ports in a couple of rooms and we still have a dish on one side of the house.

 

Yes

We have underground fox.

The Foxtel pit out the front is the same pit as the old copper phone line.

I guess they patched the fox cable to the copper in that pit.

Not sure how but that’s the setup.

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We love our 18Mbps!

 

No change from adsl2+ to fttn in speed!

 

Might get my 56kb modem out again [emoji23]

 

And in the end, after all of the epic cock-ups, this MTM bastard excuse for a network is going to cost MORE than the initial costings of Labor's FTTP NBN.

 

But don't worry, the internet is only used for porn and gaming right? RIGHT?

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And in the end, after all of the epic cock-ups, this MTM bastard excuse for a network is going to cost MORE than the initial costings of Labor's FTTP NBN.

 

Yeah but everyone and their dog knew there was NO WAY that Kevin 07's NBN dream was ever going to be delivered as initially planned, OR anywhere close to on budget!

 

Regardless of who did what to whom and why, I think it's utterly pathetic how such an important national infrastructure project was turned so quickly into a political football. Not only that, but how quickly the next door neighbour's dog got hold of it and chewed it to pieces!

 

Personally, I'm very much looking forward to being hooked up to NBN via HFC some time next month, because even Sky Muster would be better than our current connection!!

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Sure, the original FTTP network likely would have gone over budget as well, but at least we'd have a great network. The LNP repeatedly promised that they would build the network cheaper and still deliver 100mbit to the large majority of Australians. That has been proven to be an outright lie, and now we are stuck with this shit show.
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I got connected to NBN via HFC in November 2017 which was lucky as NBN Co temporarily halted taking new HFC connections about a month later. So for a while I was in a small percentage of people in my suburb that had NBN.

 

I'm happy with the speed and usually get around ~ 92Mbps / 38Mbps. Though I know at least 40Mbs / 5Mbps was possible with the existing Telstra Cable, potentially even more but I didn't have it and was on ADSL2 due to being with another ISP and didn't want to switch and pay hundreds for the Telstra connection fee for their cable modem only to switch to NBN in a few months anyway.

 

My only gripe so far with NBN and I believe I'm probably more fortunate than most is the odd disconnection which happens maybe once every 2-3 months.

 

I dread having to ring iiNet's tech support. Like most ISP's they have all their tech support offshore and I end up talking to someone who is either computer-illiterate just reading from a script or someone who is passive aggressive and avoids lodging a tech fault at all costs. Because if they lodge a tech fault and it ends up being the customers error then they get charged money and the tech support probably gets shouted at / fired or whatever.

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I dread having to ring iiNet's tech support. Like most ISP's they have all their tech support offshore and I end up talking to someone who is either computer-illiterate just reading from a script or someone who is passive aggressive and avoids lodging a tech fault at all costs. Because if they lodge a tech fault and it ends up being the customers error then they get charged money and the tech support probably gets shouted at / fired or whatever.

 

 

Aussie Broadband :)

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Aussie Broadband is my ISP and they've been great. I was recommended to them by a forum member here and we each received a $50 credit through a referral program, which was super helpful.

 

I'm on HFC and a 50mbps speed plan. I obtain 48mbps down and 19mbps up which I'm happy with. Has been stable thus far but I've only been connected for a few weeks so too early to make a definitive conclusion.

 

My only complaints revolve around the NBN installer(s) as they botched a few things up, the time it took to be able to connect and the cost per month. Granted my mobile phone plan doesn't provide the data allowance, it's more than twice as fast and costs half as much.

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Aussie Broadband is my ISP and they've been great. I was recommended to them by a forum member here and we each received a $50 credit through a referral program, which was super helpful.

 

I'm on HFC and a 50mbps speed plan. I obtain 48mbps down and 19mbps up which I'm happy with. Has been stable thus far but I've only been connected for a few weeks so too early to make a definitive conclusion.

 

My only complaints revolve around the NBN installer(s) as they botched a few things up, the time it took to be able to connect and the cost per month. Granted my mobile phone plan doesn't provide the data allowance, it's more than twice as fast and costs half as much.

 

How do you get 100Mbps on 4G ? Global 4G average is 17Mbps (that's what I get on my optus 4G broadband modem) Unless you're talking 5G, i didn't realise that was available...

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4G via Aldi mobile whom utilise the Telstra network. I loathe Telstra but their mobile network is the best. This is why I went with Aldi, great pricing and Telstra network without needing to be associated with Telstra directly.

 

Optus mobile network is piss poor, as is Vodafone's.

 

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4G via Aldi mobile whom utilise the Telstra network. I loathe Telstra but their mobile network is the best. This is why I went with Aldi, great pricing and Telstra network without needing to be associated with Telstra directly.

 

Optus mobile network is piss poor, as is Vodafone's.

 

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that is amazing!!!! thanks for posting that, mind blown.

 

now if i can just find a decent telstra data-only sim plan i wont bother with NBN at all... not likely though, when Telstra wants everyone on NBN....

 

stuck between a rock (telstra) and a hard place (telstra)

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4G via Aldi mobile whom utilise the Telstra network. I loathe Telstra but their mobile network is the best. This is why I went with Aldi, great pricing and Telstra network without needing to be associated with Telstra directly.

 

Optus mobile network is piss poor, as is Vodafone's.

 

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Wow! What will 5G be like then?

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Our old Optus Cable service will be disconnected on 14/10/2019 so we have to choose an NBN provider. We have seen and heard lots of bad reviews about Optus, so we won't be sticking with them. Aussie Broadband and iiNet seem much better and their NBN plans are almost identical in price and features. I believe we are getting HFC in our suburb. I'm leaning towards Aussie Broadband, mainly because their Customer Service is located in Australia. Can anyone comment on iiNet's services?

 

Cheers,

Matthew

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iiNet is ok in certain areas, but generally higher contention than Aussie Broadband - and offshore support. If you end up going with Aussie Broadband and feel like being nice, use me as a reference so I can get the $50 referral :D

@bwodie I'm about to sign up online to Aussie Broadband but I don't know how to add a referral to the order? Apparently I need a referral code? :unsure

 

Cheers,

Matthew

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@bwodie I'm about to sign up online to Aussie Broadband but I don't know how to add a referral to the order? Apparently I need a referral code? :unsure

 

Cheers,

Matthew

 

You will get $50 off your first bill as well! I will send it to you now :)

Referral code is: 892133

 

Everyone feel free to use it haha

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no not happy...

 

telstra cable to telstra nbn

 

approx 30 bucks more a month for similar plan and coincidentally about 30% speed loss

 

also comes with free bonus dropouts every couple of days!

 

I want my cable plan back [emoji17]

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We are all getting ripped off

I had adsl 2 and it was good $39 a month

 

I dont want a home phone but you still have to pay for a phone ?

NBN $69 a month with $20 credit for home phone that we dont use

a Local call is not like the old system when you could talk for hours

 

wife would ring here brother whom lives 20kms away and the credit would be gone ...

if you do use $10 it is topped up with another $20

 

the credit does not roll over ....

must be line rental or service charge :lol

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