NBN. What is your experience so far.

[WilSurf]

Started searching for NBN plans in our area.
But first did a speedtest to see how fast our Telstra cable internet really was.
Wow, an amazing 5.5 Mbps download..................... That was on Sunday 3pm. 
Did a test in December last year at 7.30pm: 15.6 to 22.2 Mbps.

[Spada]

Sounds about right.....that's exactly what happened to us. We had decent speeds on broardband, but as soon as the NBN was available in our area the broadband dropped down to almost nothing and we couldn't run more than one device at a time without falling into a black hole

[Bird]

Started searching for NBN plans in our area.
But first did a speedtest to see how fast our Telstra cable internet really was.
Wow, an amazing 5.5 Mbps download..................... That was on Sunday 3pm. 
Did a test in December last year at 7.30pm: 15.6 to 22.2 Mbps.

Foil hat time. but I hear this so often, I reckon they do it so people leave what they have for the angels piss that is the NBN...

[saph]

Technical explination on speeds, its demand and they are not supplying the speeds to fill demands put on for peak times causing the slow down of data speeds and its worse when you hit the download limit. maybe a good idea to start reading your contract fine print for 'shaping' aka throttling of data. they all do this so they can line pockets with cash and not spend on upgrades, also depending on where the main street box is you could be the last on the line because thats where they run the copper lines from since its cheaper then upgrading all the lines.

Also alot of the internet and phone lines are still run along with power lines since its easyer then digging and laying pipes to data centers, my brother does road works and brought me some of the converter stuff they use in the cabnets on the poles.

This is the main street cabnet they use.

[WilSurf]

Anyone using Exetel for NBN?

[Bunyip]

This is AFTER the fixed wireless tower upgrade!!!!

[Paddler Ed]

Nice and steady 11/10 - supposed to be 25/12, but in the 6 years I've been with this ISP I've only had about 4 outages, so that slightly off speed is not a huge concern:



Does help that I have line of sight to the tower just about... few trees in the way mind...

[bkim]

pretty close to this speed all the time, latency (ping) is a bit high because the test is over 1500km

[Merts]

Nice and steady 11/10 - supposed to be 25/12, but in the 6 years I've been with this ISP I've only had about 4 outages, so that slightly off speed is not a huge concern:



Does help that I have line of sight to the tower just about... few trees in the way mind...

That's not 'slightly off' speed. It's less than half the supposed download speed.
(Upload speed is pretty much irrelevant for most home users).

[Paddler Ed]

That's not 'slightly off' speed. It's less than half the supposed download speed.
(Upload speed is pretty much irrelevant for most home users).

Just re-run it:


Much quicker, but this is what I mean - we don't notice the difference in speeds that greatly, and I have none of the drop outs that the others are whinging about.

[Kangaron]

Surely that couldn't be right? or could it?

[Merts]

Surely that couldn't be right? or could it?

18 download is a bit better.

Agreed the 'faster than' % seems a bit odd.

[tryagain]

Surely that couldn't be right? or could it?

I am guessing that is based on the tests run from Australia, most people with decent speeds don't have a need to test it, it's when it's running slow that they do.

[paceman]

Surely that couldn't be right? or could it?

they should add a 'that have run this tool' on the end of that statement...

plenty of internet users who would never have run a speed test in their life...

[Bird]

Surely that couldn't be right? or could it?

but slower than 80% of the world..

remember wazbot in a backstreet motel in Mexico...  Think how smooth that 8k porn would be on that connection



http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=40063.msg920543#msg920543

[tryagain]

Always like checking the connection at Uni for giggles.

[Bird]

Always like checking the connection at Uni for giggles.

why cant we have that speed at home?

[tryagain]

why cant we have that speed at home?

You probably could if your pockets were as deep as the Universities.

[Bird]

You probably could if your pockets were as deep as the Universities.

shouldnt need em to be that deep I'd be happy with Mexican speeds

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

Checked mine at 0320 (3.20AM for those not familiar with 24 hr)

Download     16.9 Mbps

Upload           4.7Mbps

Ping              10ms.

Fibre to the Node, that replaced Telstra ADSL 2.

[Fizzie]

That's a bit of a worry, because



is also faster than 85% of Oz

What, there's nobody between 18 & 22

& that's on a 25 / 5 HFC Cable plan, so happy with it

[jclures]

I still only have adsl2, have no idea when we will get nbn.

[Bird]

[Kangaron]

So you upgraded after all?

[Bird]

So you upgraded after all?

told em i was cancelling, and could get it for 60 elsewhere... I think ramjeet said he'd match it
but ovre this period Im changing everything to my new gmail account so I can go anywhere at drop of hat.