The same Telstra which halted their HFC rollout because ADSL for internet and Satellite for Pay TV were cheaper and used their monopoly on fixed infrastructure to stop any real progress?
The chairman can eat shit.
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Recently moved over to Vodafone nbn100!
Happy with the results! 
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Sounds like youâre on FTTN. 
Could be worse, but could be better.
iâm actually on HFC
expect to get an offer soon to upgrade to gigabytes speeds
Telstra was in the early stages of planning a decommission of the copper network and replacement with FTTP when the NBN was announced. This is actully public knowlege
Damn, must have congestion in your area. You should be getting an easy 93/35
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94/39 with a 7ms ping for me just now - also on NBN100 via HFC. Crazy to think I was happy with ~20/4 just a few years ago.
I switched over to Superloop at the end of last year and have found the speeds to be much more reliable than with either of my two previous NBN providers.
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Iâm lucky enough to live in an area with full FTTP but I only pay for 25mbps instead of the full 100. Originally I was planning to upgrade to the faster speed but honestly I donât find it slow at all
The TransACT network in Canberra has been FTTP since 2001. NBN Co had the option of connecting the NBN straight into TransACTâs network but instead chose to build their own rival network at considerably greater cost. Instead now many areas can either choose shitty FTTN or TransACTâs old network, now owned by IINet and branded as âUltra Broadbandâ but with speeds limited to 74mbps.
Couldâve avoided a lot of hassle if say NBN Co acquired TransACT instead of IInet getting it
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not quite.
Itâs VDSL2 which is still just fibre to the pole then copper to the house.
basically they used a star topography metod where the copper end run ware a maximum 15m to the nearest access point.
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Didnât the newer suburbs get FttP (before NBN took over)?
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Maybe they did, the main network is VDSL2 using FTTC method, TransACT then switched to ADSL2+ method once ULLC was made opened by the ACCC re: using Telstra copper last mile network.
After that point TransACT was purchased by iiNet which also took control of Neighbourhood Cable (N:Cable) in the 3 regional areas or Victria and then they sold to TPG which owns the network today.
I doubt that TPG ever used FTTH§ for the old TransACT network and they still have their own HFC in the 3 regional areas which is now DOCSIS 3.1 250/50 speeds.
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You can tell COVID19 is affecting HFC (in my area at least).
I can only recall one other time where I had speed drops during peak hour, otherwise Iâd have a constant 92/36.
Now during peak my download is dipping to as low as 30mbps
Is there anywhere we can see the peaks of usage for NBN? Iâd imagine that this morning would have been one of the highest periods in NBN usage because a lot of people would be testing their work from home environments but also hundreds (or thousands) of churches were doing their first ever live streams of their services this morning since the government changes meant they couldnât have their usual services. That would have created quite an impact on traffic and it did seem to be the slowest period Iâve seen throughout the whole time.
It will be super interesting to see how this plays out on Tuesday when parents are working from home and kids are locked up in the house too!
Heck, Iâll even be working from home and probably affected
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Telstra HFC connection (old school HFC running on the old CISCO Telstra CMTS and not ARRIS NBN CMTS) is still great able to hit 105Mbits in peak times, sure upload is limited to 5.5Mbits but that is not a major drama.
Nearly everyone in my street according to the NBN street checker have made the switch to NBN, all but 3 homes in a street which has 32 homes (16 on each side) are still on legacy networks while everyone else is on NBN HFC.
I know my sisters ADSL2+ is still going somewhat good with 15Mbits/3Mbits via Telstra DSLAM exchange which is about 900 meters away according to line checker., her area is NBN HFC but they have a copper phone line/ADSL2+ connection.
I have friends on NBN FTTN and its struggling hard to hit 20Mbits/5Mbits and they have 50/20, but they have something like 8 devices hammering the NTD (modem).
We wouldâve stayed on the legacy network but unfortunately the switch-off date was nearing (this was in 2018).
I canât remember having a single issue EVER on the legacy network (and we were using it from 2006 until 2018).
we have till October 2020, although I hear that could be extended due to what is going on my a further 6 months.
I was with Optus HFC from 1999 (one of the 1st Optus@Home subs) till last year when Optus gave notice 3 months RFS date switch off, so I switched to Telstra HFC with like 4 days to go before the Telstra HFC network was put into RTC / RFS mode and thus no longer allowing new connections to legacy network, Telstra set me the Gateway and Cable modem, I only connected the cable modem as I use my own internet network and not interested in their phone line as I still have copper phone line connected as a POTS / PTSN connection.
Both are working 100%, never had an issue on the copper phone line and Telstra HFC was connected way way way back in 2000 for Foxtel analogue so it was an easy self install on my end.
That said my neighbours all say the same thing, NBN HFC is awful and they are all with various providers, NBN have spit the CMTS (in other words NODES) so many times that itâs at the point Foxtel really needs to get off the HFC network as NBN needs more frequencies to make a 3rd set of bonded channels for DOCSIS 3.1, until Foxtel is kicked off the NBN HFC network then DOCSIS 3.0 is gonna be awful for anyone connecting to it.
The same can be said of Telstra HFC broadband (which had the juicy frequency range with basically low levels of Signal to Noise ratio), once both are off the network then NBN will have 4 bonded frequency range sets and offer DOCSIS 3.1
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In the long run, HFC is just unsustainable, especially if COVID19 keeps people working from home for many months (lack of available upload speed).
I mean, obviously NBN arenât going to do shit about fixing their network any time soon, but we really need to move to a FTTP future!
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