NBN. What is your experience so far.

[austastar]

Hi,
   I gather it is not that suitable for moving reception.
Sat dish must be stable and not move from one cell coverage area to another without a change approval and capacity available.
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[plusnq]

Hi,
   I gather it is not that suitable for moving reception.
Sat dish must be stable and not move from one cell coverage area to another without a change approval and capacity available.
Cheers

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Yes. At the moment it is geolocked to a small region. I understand they are working on a mobile version but many more satellites need to be in place for that to work.

[Bird]

https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/nbn-plans/?id=LOC000054397810#builder

anyone gone with the 248 or 600meg plans???

[GeoffA]

We've got a 100meg plan with Telstra. They're currently giving us the 250meg plan for nix as a tester.
I don't notice any real difference between the two, but Mark says he notices an improvement with mega-downloads (as expected).
We're fibre to the modem wall socket.

 

[bkim]

Not too bad at the moment

[Bird]

Just signed up with Aussie Broadband at the new joint..
Booked it Thursday to be turned on Friday - Friday early AM text saying its all good to go.

[GeoffA]

Are you happy?

[Bird]

Are you happy?

fuq no.. aching like bastard, no 9x6mtr shed.... but found ya drop saw..
theres gonna have to be a clearance sale

[Fizzie]

at the new joint..

You shifted camp, Birdie

[Bird]

You shifted camp, Birdie

yup... downsized

[WilSurf]

Happy enough with our NBN, not as fast as those screenshots but I am only paying for a 50Mb plan.
I am going to install a home network though.
The wifi in the back of the house where the router is, is good with last Friday night 75Mb download. But moving to the front room, the download speed dropped to 42Mb, only 8 meters away. No wall in between the router and tester.
Then moving to the front room with 1 wall and 20-25 meters away, download 23Mb.
Signal strength went all the way down to -82dBm on 5GHz and -72dBm on 2,4GHz.

Going for ethernet in almost every room and two wireless access points.

[Bird]

Going for ethernet in almost every room and two wireless access points.

yep wall plates/cable is the way to go.... new place has a patch point in each room

[scrubber]

Got to love the roll out- NOT!.  We are still on ADSL.  They installed a FW tower just up the road from us a few months ago (1.1km away as the crow flies) and yet according to the roll-out map, our place and the neighbour across the road are not eligible to be connected to NBN.  I could if I tried see the tower I reckon.  Every other place around us is eligible including a much closer neighbour (200m away)
I've put a call into ABB to see if we can get the ludites (NBN) to reconsider their stupidity!
Another Shitty  part about the NBN roll-out is that Optus used to offer fixed 4g in our area until the FW tower was installed - it is no longer available.
Starlink is starting to look very attractive at the moment.  All this and only 40km from the centre of Brisbane.  Christ you'd think that I live 500km past Cunnamulla!

[corndog]

Been on a trial of ultrafast nbn for a few months now and its about to end. I did take up an offer and switched over to it permanently.  Generally it didn't make that much difference to things but some things much better. For the price difference I couldn't not do it.

[Fizzie]

For a little while now, I've had one of the SamKnows white boxes from Neilsen Surveys installed at my place checking my NBN speeds. (& no, I haven't noticed any impact on my speeds at all!)

They've now put out an offer for other people to join the program.

No cost of any sort to you as they supply the box free of charge. You also accumulate points for having it installed, which can then be redeemed at a wide variety of places, including the BGS or Dan the Man's! No, it's not a fantastic amount - I've been going since early June & am now at 500 points which = $50, but that's also in return for doing absolutely nothing apart from installing the machine.

If anybody is interested, please send me a PM & I'll send you the link.

[DrewXT]

I've been looking at getting a Sam Knows box for a while, might get serious about it now we have our FTTP....

Very happy with it, the fibre was installed on Friday, and ordered on Tuesday morning, active about 3pm on Tuesday...


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[Pete79]

So who is using SkyMuster these days?

What sort of plans are on offer and is there any limitations to these satellite connections?

[paceman]

So who is using SkyMuster these days?

What sort of plans are on offer and is there any limitations to these satellite connections?

is that your only option?  it's not great, to be brutally honest... uploads are especially slow...

have tried looking into starlink?

https://www.starlink.com/

i am assuming 4g/5g isn't an option where you are, if you are looking at SkyMuster?

i know some that have talked to Telstra and Optus about the feasibility of putting a tower on their property...

[Fizzie]

have tried looking into starlink?

https://www.starlink.com/

A lady on another forum, who lives in Northern Vic, has just gone on to Starlink in the last few weeks.

The second day she had it, before her dish had gone up onto the roof!, she said:

"It's now sitting on a trailer on the lawn, and now that I've managed to fix my flippin USB/Ethernet LAN adapter, I've plugged my PC directly into the Starlink box with an ethernet cable.

Ping 31ms
Download 101.03
Upload 29.05

It's still acquiring its best 'tilt' – quite disconcerting when you're standing next to it and there's a whirring noise and it tilts itself, so I expect once we get it on the roof and it's settled in, that may come up a bit."

Definitely worth checking in to!

[Pete79]

is that your only option?  it's not great, to be brutally honest... uploads are especially slow...

Yep only option.

I think a lot of Australia is in for a huge shock pretty soon.
As we’ve all heard the govco love to get out there and say that over 90% of households have access to the NBN.
But the reality is they’ve just drawn a line around properties zoned as rural and said they can connect to SkyMuster. Too easy, now everyone technically has access to the NBN.

I recently had a “discussion” with Telstra about my ADSL connection when they sent me a letter to say “due the increasing costs of delivering ADSL connections we will be increasing your bill by $5 per month”.
Considering I’ve been paying ADSL2+ fees for a connection that delivers just above dial up speeds, I wasn’t wearing that fee increase.

After a few phone calls and getting pushed up to managers, I finally got the truth.

Telstra have agreed to push me back on to a normal ASDL plan so I’m paying for the service that they are providing me.
But here’s the kicker……

I’ve got 12 months to get an NBN connection setup because after that Telstra are no longer supporting ADSL connections in my area…

I explained our situation with poor 4G and no 5G service.
But they where very clear; “we can see on the NBN map that you have access to the NBN via satellite connection, you have to find a supplier to connect to that service as we will no longer be supporting ADSL connections to people that have access to the NBN.”

So I think there is going to be a lot of people that have been thrown in the too hard basket for a proper NBN connection and only have satellite as an option, when their ADSL suppliers notify them they are no longer supporting those networks.

So, yes I’m being forced into a substandard internet network that will adversely effect my working situation.
I work on a cloud based network and produce very large files that are uploaded and downloaded several times per day.

[paceman]

I work on a cloud based network and produce very large files that are uploaded and downloaded several times per day.

fully understand your frustration.

NBN should have been FTTP and nothing less...  another example of politics getting in the way of proper nation-building infrastructure.

based on your usage case, SkyMuster will be next to useless, based on previous experience...

maybe check on StarLink and see if it's available...

[Troopy_03]

Been on a trial of ultrafast nbn for a few months now and its about to end. I did take up an offer and switched over to it permanently.  Generally it didn't make that much difference to things but some things much better. For the price difference I couldn't not do it.

That speed is pretty awesome eh? Just out of curiosity, where did you notice improvement over the standard broadband, apart from downloading large files of course?

I'm pretty happy with my NBN, Aussie BB. Very rarely get any buffering on Catch Up TV, but I don't do netlix or any other of the movie streaming services.

First one is while streaming music (Flac files) down the same 50M of cat5E. Second one is when I realised I should probably pause the music while doing a speed test.. Surprisingly low overhead for music streaming.

[paceman]

That speed is pretty awesome eh? Just out of curiosity, where did you notice improvement over the standard broadband, apart from downloading large files of course?

I'm pretty happy with my NBN, Aussie BB. Very rarely get any buffering on Catch Up TV, but I don't do netlix or any other of the movie streaming services.

First one is while streaming music (Flac files) down the same 50M of cat5E. Second one is when I realised I should probably pause the music while doing a speed test.. Surprisingly low overhead for music streaming.

Aussie BB for the win...

Music streaming has very little overhead on NBN connections (FTTN, FTTP, FW)...

Gaming and streaming (quality and latency) is where you will notice a great increase, when going to fibre, over FTTN or FW...

[Bird]

So I think there is going to be a lot of people that have been thrown in the too hard basket

Sadly thats no surprise... not one iota...

[Troopy_03]

Aussie BB for the win...

Music streaming has very little overhead on NBN connections (FTTN, FTTP, FW)...

Gaming and streaming (quality and latency) is where you will notice a great increase, when going to fibre, over FTTN or FW...

That wasn't music streaming over NBN (mostly 320Kbps mp3 or lower anyway), but streaming flac files from a NAS. But it was interesting that even though I was streaming avg of 800Kbps flac files, it didn't make much difference to my NBN speed test, when both were traveling down the same cat5E to my shed. It didn't worry the music either. No dropouts or glitches. (NAS & NBN box and Router in the house)

As for streaming video over NBN, I only ever stream Catch-up TV, which I don't think any is full HD. But I think that even HD would be OK on 100Kbps. But I was more interested in what you would notice a difference on with an 800Kbps odd NBN connection. Gaming? maybe on big arena multiplayers. Or maybe streaming 4K video content, if any services offer that.

Obviously the biggest noticeable improvement would be downloading large files.