Yay!! I won lotto. $60billion

For my $60bn I made a compulsory fibre broadband thing

I connected to it yesterday, and after ONE failure in 12mths, I now have 3 dropouts in 24hrs and NOT one little bit faster.

Yay!!!!

It could build 6 start of the art hospitals, but no we got fibres that are no faster. Yaayyyyy!!!


Anyway - serious
NO faster than before, it it is faster it is impercemptible, maybe 10% now and then.
And 3 dropouts in a day is 900x more than previous on ADSL. Hmmm. Money's worth?

What's the go propellorheads?

The NBN was doomed even before it started... 'Fibre ain't fibre' so to speak.
The big question is @ what level have you signed up for there are 4 levels from basic to top level service and guess what like all things in life 'you get what you pay for'.
This a snip from the NBN Co site.






Even before the NBN started its roll out there was 4G phone system that gave almost the same / similar data figures, 5G will be even better, the in-power Pollies pushed for a 'FIXED' system for an increasingly 'mobile' population was just plain dumb..... The incoming Pollies were therefore also committed to the original dumb idea. They just modified it to be financially responsible.
If the 'top' level was there for every one the country would be broke, for example my inlaws are 13km from a very small country town they are still on a SWER (single wire earth return) power system so a data fibre will NEVER be an option to them.

It should have always been a multi level system using both RF (radio frequencies) and fibre to the location.
I'm liking what Telstra is doing with the 'HotSpot' network using peoples / business WiFi network to increase the data speeds to customers.

^^^ Isn't the user experience what matters?

We signed up and then were told there wasn't enough slots in the (green box) around down the street and would have to wait until a spot was available. which was unlikely considering the fact the subdivision was only 70% finished at that time and they already had no slots available? ill stick with my ADSl+2 for as long as i can thanks.

bring back Dial up! then our kids will know the frustration and that imfomus sound!

I love Japan. We're on the gigabit fiber optic plan . . . flat rate, of course. Upgraded from the 150Mbit plan, which is the slowest and cheapest, but there are only the two options anyway.

Wont post the numbers, theyll embarrass you over there in the third world . . .

I'd rather we spent $50bn putting overhead powerlines underground and planting a tree where each pole stood.


Still, good to see every residential dwelling in the country will be able to download HD movies instead of plain old normal movies. Keep's people off the streets looking at those ugly power poles and beautiful trees.

Third world internet ???

The whole of Latin America (Cuba excluded), South Africa and many many others ( I can only speak of places I been and know), ALL of them have better (faster, more accessible) internet than what we have at least in Western Australia.

I could only have Broadband wireless at my home (been at this address more than 7 years), 3 kms from the nearest exchange (Rockingham) but always the exchange was full, not slots available etc, wait for the NBN.

I am a migrant, been here over 10 yrs. I left one of the 3rd world countries I mentioned above. I had better internet back there (in those lowsy violent ridden, disease, war etc hellholes) than I what I ever experienced in AUD.

Third world internet? Australia Internet is way lower than that...Cuba very soon will have something better than us here.

I'm on a tier 2 plan, fibre to the home, getting 18.82Mbps down, 4.39Mbps up. For me (and my teenage son) this works.
I'm quietly pleased to be part of the fibre to the home setup (before P train's mates changed it to a dog's breakfast setup). When we were on copper it was slow and unreliable, especially during wet weather. One of my sons (who works in telecommunications) showed me the copper lines in the pit in the street. Not pretty. It's a wonder the copper worked at all judging by the condition of the connections.

At work we get the speeds below, but, it is a science research facility, so I would expect a decent service is required...

I guess this shows that the NBN is meant to return the investors money (us) and deliver predictable speeds, and not create a monopoly for one or two telcos.

I guess this has passed. Mark wanted the basic speed, and that's what he has got. Has he paid any more out of pocket for the service? Once the teething problems are sorted out, I would expect it to be reliable.

If he decides he wants a faster connection, he can just pay extra and get it upgraded without any changes to the cable or the modem.

If the next tenant uses the internet more, I guess they can just subscribe to whichever provider they want and select which speed suits them.

Seems you have a problem with your ISP, not the NBN (unless all of Gero suffers the same outage at the same time).
Your ISP purchases bandwidth from the NBN to supply to customers in an area. The issue usually is that although you purchased a 25Mb/s link, that is only from the green box to you, the ISP may only have provisioned 25Mb/s back haul from that box to their core network. More connections to the box, less bandwidth to share.
Drop outs are also (probably) due to the cheap Chinese router your ISP supplied you to connect to the service.

I guess in a bigger answer to this, when does any government really spend money to build 6 new hospitals? They usually seem to sit around and discuss the possibility of something and eat up any budget in the research. In my local area they seem to kick off funding for investigating a freeway, and not surprisingly the budget is consumed every single time just looking at the options.

So, is it NBN versus hospitals? Nah.

When have we had any governments that are really good at infrastructure?