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Au Falcon = Mr Reliable
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Location: North West Slopes & Plains NSW
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Hows your NBN connection running since you switched over, happy or frustrated?
Let us know your thoughts, impressions, hints & tips please, hopefully this thread can be helpful for NBN noobs like me lol!! My experience atm is its a bit hit & miss but when running good its real good, probably because of a faulty white box, not sure yet until its checked out by a Telstra tech. cheers, Maka
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We've had NBN fixed wireless for nearly 2 years now.
Gotta say it's excellent, especially compared to the satellite we used to have. Speeds seem to be between about 45 - 50 all the time and we haven't had a drop out yet. |
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If you are running FTTN, then the general consensus is that it is worthwhile inspecting the cabling in your house, especially if it's older and has multiple phone points. People are reporting an improvement in stability and performance by spending some money having these eliminated. It is worthwhile baselining your network sync speeds and checking over time. This will give you an indication of link quality. If your "perceived" performance varies at different times of the day ie good during the day, poor an night and there is a pattern to this then you probably need to look at your ISP and whether they are providing a congestion free service to your area
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cheers, Maka
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I was in an early rollout area, FTTP maybe 8 years ago, then moved to a new home 5 years ago FTTP.
I had the house wired for 10Gbps. My Recommendations - 1) Do not rely on Home Wireless, the wireless router will become your bottleneck, Wire up your office and TV spots with at least Cat6A cable and use some good 1Gb switches if needed 2) Spend a bit extra and use a better "modem" than the one provided by your carrier. The Optus/Telstra ones are crud 3) make sure you have a decent tri/quad wifi router. There are some that step through frequencies if there is noise - most houses have wifi in my area, so there is a lot of competition (there is a huge science in choosing a router) 4) If you have to go Wireless, get a dedicated WIFI router for 1 or 2 critical devices, and let the kids devices use a common one 5) maybe you do not need a 100Mb package, someone could do the maths, but I have seen 4xfullHD appear to take less than 8Mb 6) I have had a 3 or 4 outages of 60 mins when I needed to be in conference - I live in a new suburb - plan a way to use a SIM for backup (I threw my Phone Sim in a USB adapter and put it on the router) 7) not all NBN carriers are equal - there is hardware that they need to operate to connect to NBN at "their end". So many "NBN" Issues are really carrier Issues - You need a good carrier - Optus was about the best last I heard - and Telstra was not second. Best to do some current research on this. 8) your carrier will likely bundle a home phone with the package - This will most likely be an IP phone, not suitable for health support monitoring as it will not work when the power is off to the router. You would need UPS on the NBN device AND UPS on your Router for emergency health and security usage - or a Packaged PSTN phone SpeedTest today, I get 8, 96, 38 - fairly typical of my home, and a great result for a 100/40 connection Last edited by EgoFG; 23-10-2018 at 11:08 AM. |
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cheers, Maka
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it all depends on your expectations.
I went from adsl2 to nbn about 6 months ago (I believe the majority get FTTN). With ADSL I generally achieved around 7-9 Mb download speed. I didn't want to increase my monthly spend so signed up to the minimum deal, speed wise, which is 12Mb. My speed now on NBN is still averaging around 9Mb, so no worse off, which was my main concern. I've never been one to crave the biggest or fastest or best etc, so i'm happy with our NBN. seems reliable so far. no drop outs or disconnects or anything (not that there was on ADSL2 either). so yes, it all depends on what you require from your internet service and your budget.
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We had ADSL2 before we got NBN FTTN. NBN seems to be somewhere between 2&4 times faster. My measuring device is how quickly does a youtbe download,if the download speed is faster than the playback speed I,m happy. Don,t really know how any faster could be of any benefit.
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previously on ADSL2 at 5kms of copper from the exchange and had appallingly slow connection (2-3 Mbps). Had a nightmare of a time getting onto NBN with Tesltra, but now it is sorted I'm very happy with FTTN and a regular 45-50 Mbps and no dropouts that are noticeable. Even with two teens in the house we can still stream HD easily in the evenings. This is in fairly rural Vic.
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What is nbn?
Never seen em.
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you'll be Waaiting A whhhhile eh mate nothing new
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Before NBN at night when I wanted to play Battlefield 4 I created a faraday cage over the modem using foil wrap to stop two teenage daughters from streaming etc. Did create some issues when the other half wanted to use it and queried why the internet was down.
With NBN I can play multiplayer when x 3 others are using it as well, before NBN it was unplayable in that situation. All I know is that prior NBN with Faraday cage I was getting ping of about 90, when the daughters and wife were on my ping went up over 200- and I was often kicked for having too high a ping. With NBN I am getting ping of 9 when playing alone, and when others of my household are on and using streaming etc x3, my ping goes up to about 40 etc. Been told by technicians our NBN is almost directly on a node (whatever that means) and that we should have very fast speeds. I love NBN- no more Faraday cages and issues with family members with me using by jerry built faraday cages....
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I went from ADSL2+ to NBN (FTTN) and was one of the first in my suburb and consequently went from around 5Mbps to 23Mbps but even more strangely for some reason over the last 6 months it has gotten faster and now sits on just over 30Mbps. Have also never experienced a single dropout or interruption.
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I built a new house in a new suburb 2 years ago and have had nothing but NBN in this house. It's been faultless. Since everything around here is new that's probably why it works well.
I just did the speed test, result are Ping 4 Download 33.5 Upload 16.7 I remember back in the mid 2000's I had horrible internet and would dream of getting speeds a quarter of what I get now. Last edited by Ben73; 23-10-2018 at 10:48 PM. |
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South of River in Perth. Estate is about 10yrs old. I was on ADSL getting about 18mbps.
Been on FTTN NBN 50mbps plan for about 6 months. I’m consistently getting 48/18mbps, 1ms ping. We’ve had some horror periods were It’s been completely unreliable (disconnecting EVERY 10-20 seconds... taking 2+mins to reconnect). ISP changed a few things on their end which seems to have stabilised it all. But I still get a drop out every 10days or so.
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very happy with NBN, although I hear lots of people complaining about the "NBN", but most times it is the internet provider like Telstra that are ****ing up not the NBN, the amount of people having trouble with Tesltra is incredible.
Isn't speed dictated by the Internet Provider, like Telstra? We have been on DODO since we went to NBN and after over 2 years absolutely ZERO issues
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Our FTTN setup is having bad dropouts atm, having a little chat with Telstra today lol, fingers crossed it can be sorted quick & painlessly.
cheers, Maka
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see again a Telstra issue, it has me ****ed why people go with them, seriously
When people complain about NBN I ask them who their provider is and without fail it is Telstra - they are hopeless (and one of the most expensive) Basic DODO package $60 pm - unlimited downlads
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We've had FTTN for the last 12 months after being ADSL2. Performance has been consistently good (even with Telstra) but we've had the Telstra supplied gateway replaced 3 times after the wireless component failed in each of them. We aren't using those any more.
Mind you, the 'node' is on our boundary fence. Cheers Russ
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About 15km away from you. It works, not in the rain though.
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Experience so far ..... I was meant to get FTTP November 2013, just as they started construction that little review of NBN happened when the change of govt happened. 5 years later and NBN have been digging up the neighborhood the past few months finally installing FTTN. So hoping early next year i can answer your question lol
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Telstra switched us over to NBN from ADSL 3 weeks ago. Now 3 weeks without internet...
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Otherwise they are expensive and the service is terrible.
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Also, one thing I did many years ago was buy a decent modem/router. Makes a big difference to the reliability of your connection.
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I'm On a FTTP (one of the last before it went to the node)
It's stable and I mostly get the speed I pay for, my bitch is when the milky bar kid sold it to the nation, it was going to be cheaper than what we were paying for ADSL 2 and what we got for that money with the same limits was not much better than dial up. To get better speed, than what I had on ADSL 2 with the same data limits im up,for 20% more
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What I did in the end was ring and ask for the date my adsl2 would be turned off. They all have this info and have to tell you. At the time it was nearly a year away so I told them I'd wait until I had to change, in the hope that as more people came on board, the prices would come down and the value of the plans would improve. They were adamant it wouldn't change. Fast forward to when I eventually signed up, prices had dropped about $10 and data allowance has doubled. If you want the speed and are prepared to pay, then nbn is the way to go. If you are on a budget that limits you to the low end plans, and your adsl2 works, then there is little benefit in switching unless you have to.
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FTTP with Telstra, zero issues.
I'm on there slowest speed 50/25 unlimited. duel stack ip addys,, ip4 at Windsor node 50klm 4ms ping. ip6 at Coffs harbour node 600klm <0.1ms ping. NBN has its own UPS supplied by NBN, Telstra router I've linked the power supplie to the NBN UPS..
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My area is on cable and we don't get NBN till next year, bit worried ours will go backward. Just gotta wait and see.
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I’ve just bitten the bullet and will upgrade my ADSL with TPG to NBN. I’m going from 20g/mth to 100g for an extra $10 per month. Fingers crossed it doesn’t suck.
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For us Telstra 4G is quicker than our NBN.
The 5G network and its speed, will see the NBN very slow for many. They should have stayed committed to fiber all the way. edit add, Perth the 1st to have 5G reported 200 times faster than NBN, https://www.perthnow.com.au/technolo...ng-b881001124z
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