FttN was obsolete before the LNP started deploying the nodes.
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25Mb/s is about the mandatory minimum speed I would set. Thatās enough for a 4K Netflix stream.
We may see NBN Satellite and Fixed Wireless entirely eclipsed within 5 years if SpaceXās Starlink service delivers as promised. They have a whole constellation of satellites orbiting the earth at a relatively low altitude, which will provide connections with much lower latency than the geostationary SkyMuster satellite.
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Iām down the NSW South Coast for a few days, where the internet isnāt that great compared to Canberra. Iām in a bit of an Optus and Telstra blackspot, and the hotel WiFi is snail pace, despite it apparently being on the NBN.
Optus 4G:
The hotel WiFi:
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Thatās been my experience with hotel Wi-Fi almost everywhere Iāve stayed.
Pathetic speeds that are usually slower than my old ADSL connection.
Thankfully I have a good 4G data plan.
Itās probably why itās now free in most places, so you canāt complain about somethjng thatās āfreeā.
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Many hotels and other places still often apply bandwidth limits to the free wifi connections. Sometimes you can pay for an uncapped speed one or they just keep the uncapped speeds for their own internal networks if they only have the one connection. Sometimes they do it for technical reasons, others do it because itās the old way of how things were done when there was a much bigger limit on bandwidth.
Sometimes though it is just due to a number of people on the one connection slowing it down.
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Overprovisioning has finally been enabled on my line via Telstra HFC.
Now achieving 109/37
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Damn good! 
Since youāre on FTTP, Iād look in to why your ping is so high. You should be getting 1-2ms ping, not 19-27.
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Iāll have to see what the ping is on my laptop is plugged straight into the router compared to the WiFi on my mobile phone.
Iāll add that, the WiFi coverage of Optus routers isnāt that good.
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just moved house and iām really happy with these results!
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Not bad!
Iāve actually put in a request for HFC to FTTP today.
Hoping that the quote comes back around $5k. Probably being a bit wishful though.
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Expected Speeds : 37 Mbps - 42 Mbps
Real speed - 21Mbps 
I wouldnāt survive.
its definitely usable, but its frustrating
Usable yes, but for the work I do I need fast internet.
NBNco really hate to come out to appointments donāt they. I have booked so many appointments through telstra and each has been apparently cancelled by the nbn.
Telstra has been less than helpful and after saying the same thing each time to them, they say theyāll book another appointment which ultimately gets cancelled.
The issue in itself is a broken fibre optic cable to the nbn connection box in the office, unless thereās a black market for fibre optic, then the nbn has to fix it right?
the bain of my existence of the last five weeks
/rant over
Might just give Paul Lobb a tweet and see if he can fix it out here, west.
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Some experience slow speeds due to the co-existence period, a typically 18-month window in which FTTN speeds are limited to stop those services interfering with older ADSL services on shared pieces of infrastructure.
NBN Co said that customers on long loops mostly had their issues addressed with an upgrade to fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology.
NBN Co said in a statement to iTnews that it forecasts the end of co-existence "will be fully realised in FY24ā¦
So a how many people will be stuck with <25 Mb/s until 2025?
Further proof (if anyone needed it) that the LNPās 2013 claims of their multi-tech-mix NBN being faster, cheaper, etc. were lies.
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Word has it that Telstraās 1000/50 plan will be $179p/m.
Looks like Iāll be jumping ship to AussieBB.
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Years after building a controversial system which mostly used copper to connect homes to fibre nodes in the street, the government will announce on Wednesday an upgrade which will devote $3.5 billion to laying high-speed fibre cables down streets past homes.
Householders looking for vastly higher web speed will be able to have their homes connected by fibre to the network free of charge. They will, however, pay higher prices for their broadband plan, in line with the $149 a month paid by consumers already connected directly by fibre.
These prices will continue to be set by retailers.
The Coalition really botched the NBN when it took power in 2013. The FTTH option may have come too late for some.
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https://www.9news.com.au/technology/faster-nbn-multi-billion-dollar-project-announced-by-federal-government/2e7076a3-a52a-4949-bc1b-20c408230eb3
The Federal Government has announced a $3.5 billion upgrade to Australiaās National Broadband Network.
The project is expected to begin within months and will mean up to 10 million Australian homes will be given access to faster internet speeds by 2023.
The NBN has been under heightened pressure during the coronavirus pandemic, with the majority of people working from home.
The plan will see new high-speed fibre cable laid throughout the country, with Aussies able to access the faster connection for free.
However, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said customers will have to show need for the higher speed connection and the new fibre-to-home service will only be available to those who ask for it.
āIf a customer doesnāt ask for it, we wonāt roll the fibre to your home. If the customer demonstrates that he or she has got the demand, then we will roll the fibre [out],ā Mr Fletcher told media.
The project is expected to create as many as 25,000 new jobs and will officially be announced today.
*this will be annouced today @12.30pm at the national press club address *
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