AussieBB have released their pricing for the new plans.
1000/50 will be $149.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/348l1jp3
The new 1000/50 plan will be only available to 7% of the HFC at first (which is an absolute joke).
70% of the HFC network will be able to use the new 250/25 plan.
I like AussieBBâs warning about your router; Iâd definitely need to upgrade mine to handle Gigabit (my current router, bought when I was on ADSL, has a theoretical maximum of 1 Gb/s combined [up and down], so realistically less due to processing overhead for VLANs and firewall rules).
I have been with AussieBB for three months now and finally I got the chance to test the NBN speed. This is what Speedtest gave me:
What time was that (in your timezone), and whatâs your NBN connection? (Iâm guessing node.)
I tested it at about 11pm last night. My laptop is in the lounge room, connecting via Wi-Fi to the modem in the bedroom. I think the NBN connection is via the existing HFC network but I need to check.
There is a tool to see if your HFC connection will support Gb speeds.
https://residential.launtel.net.au/signup/residential/
My place, 100mb
My grandparents, 250mb
My mum, 1000mb
I lost node lotto 
Despite the rollout of NBN, Australia still lags behind many overseas countries in fixed broadband speeds. The Speedtest Global Index for May 2020 put Australia at 63rd place with an average speed of 45.92 Mbps. It fared much better in mobile speeds, coming at No.8 with an average speed of 67.58 Mbps.
Itâs not âdespite the spread of NBNâ, itâs because when the LNP won the federal election in 2013 they ditched the fibre-to-the-premises NBN which wouldâve fixed this problem.
The slow speed of NBN is truly exposed during the current COVID-19 pandemic with so many people being forced to work from home. It demonstrates the LNPâs lack of foresight.
Those mobile speeds are more and more accessible for in-home service at a competitive price. With the reality that 5G is likely going to be cheaper than 100/40 or 250/40 NBN, less and less people are going to be interested in signing up for NBN service, especially in urban areas that are stuck on FTTN.
Hopefully when the initial rollout plan is completed, they go back and upgrade the FTTN areas to FTTC. That would upgrade the speed significantly without the excessive cost of FTTP. (Yes Iâm a dreamer).
Excessive cost? If the government was interested in cost efficiency, theyâd have stuck with FttP initially. The copper and complexity of multiple, slow, network types has delayed the completion and increased the cost.
Given this government doesnât care about providing good speeds to people, I wouldnât hold my breath waiting for node areas to be upgraded.
There is a report on 7.30 on the ABC tonight regarding fixing the FttN technology. Itâs a follow-up to the Four Corners feature on the NBN a couple of years ago.
UPDATE: 7.30 report on NBN
This isnât new; if NBNCo was being reasonable theyâd refund such people more of what they were charged as each subsequent person gets FttP (and charge the right amount to those who are benefiting from the 1st personâs payment for FttP).
The new Statutory Infrastructure Provider (SIP) regime requires NBN Co and equivalent companies to provide a download speed of at least 25 megabits per second and an upload speed of 5Mbps during peak hours.
From July 1 that speed is to be available to all whether they live in the city or the outback.
What an appalling headline; 25 Mb/s is not fast (and wasnât when the NBN started, let alone now).
I was reading somewhere earlier today about them saying FTTN is âfit for purposeâ until at least 2040. Absolute load of complete bollocks.
By 2040 FTTN could become obsolete.
It couldâve been tongue in cheek.
Even then, I canât see them rushing to upgrade FTTN for at least 5 years, unless of course there is a change of government.
And even then, Labor has distanced itself from the whole NBN problem in the last few years.
Probably sooner than that.
