How's the NBN working for you?

[arthurking83]

..... full moon and no unicorns trampling the exchange fences.

Andrew, you may have inadvertently hit on the source of the problem.

It is quite possible that the winding on the Unicorn's horn may be interfering with the signal from the tower. If, as you say, unicorns are hanging around .....

You're both half deranged! You know nothing of unicorns(which is a silly name when you think about it .. why would they be named after a single solitary clump of maze seeds?)

anyhow! I have the low down on unicorns .. from an ex unicorn expert too mind you.

Apparently they scare off beastly types, and I reckon the speed issues experienced by sufferers of insufficient network speeds are not, in fact, due to the unicorns but more so from the beasts they are there to protect you from. That is, they're presence there actually eliminates the internet from stopping altogether!
I'm hearing that the most likely culprit that causes this speed reducing stuff may be something like a centaur to something .. some half man half animal type construction(of the mind) that is supposedly hard to see/catch/comprehend .. and only unicorns can do this(or that .. or whatever).

So the poor old unicorn, once again, being blamed for stuff it didn't do .. and only because it was seen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!


hope that helps
.. (the experience of another bottle of that chardonnay)

[Cage]

@ Arthur ....

And you have the temerity to call Andrew and myself 'half deranged'.

I say 'pots 'n' kettles' and 'glass houses' to you, Sir.

At least I owned up to the possible (probable) cause of my ramblings.

Whatever you're on, I want some.

[KevPride]

NBN all working fine in Modbury North SA. Only picked the lowest speed available on Telstra, and lost a bit of GB allowance. The speed is still way faster than my old Cable system.

Only glitch is that my work Laptop has Citrix VPN and it clashes with the ISP IPv4 address and will not connect.

Kevin

[tandeejay]

I'm thinking of taking a screenshot of some of this thread for next week's 2016 Members challenge - Jealousy

[KevPride]

Download 24.8 Mb/s Upload 4.8 Mb/s ping 6.

Test @ 4.4.2016 - this is pretty consistent result.

Kevin

[ameerat42]

Kev. Interesting that you speed is >> your old cable speed.
Upwards, sure, but down?
With "Octopus" I get 30 down, 1.7 up. Always have.
That's NOT on NBN.

[sanger]

Well according to a guy from Telstra who is in a pop up kiosk at our local mall he reckons the NBN will we be live between 1-14 April in our suburb.
That's FTTN so we'll see.

[landyvlad]

NBN? Apparently they will start building it in 2017 in our area....

[Mary Anne]

NBN? Apparently they will start building it in 2017 in our area....

You are lucky, No date for our address.

[ameerat42]

I am UN-lucky. Ours is in about a year. I DON'T like it because I won't get much more than what I have
wiffout paying more. And they have NO NBN + phone plan that gives you free 13xx calls like I have now.
That's a riPOFF.

[KevPride]

Kev. Interesting that you speed is >> your old cable speed.
Upwards, sure, but down?
With "Octopus" I get 30 down, 1.7 up. Always have.
That's NOT on NBN.

Sorry Am but I don't understand your question.

Kevin

[ameerat42]

(Hmm! It was clear -as mud - to me)

I would have expected the "lowest speed" NBN to be about the same as for cable.
I understand 25Mbit/sec down for NBN, and 30 Mbit/sec for cable. The Upload speed is
often quoted as being higher for NBN than for cable.

Yet you're saying that the NBN at the "lowest speed" is much faster than cable.

Mine is cable 30/1.8, with Optus. I hope their NBN is "worth it" eventually.

[KevPride]

Cable speed for SA was always much different than some areas of NSW, well compared to my area anyway. Telstra always had an "out" clause of "up to" speeds. Both Up/Down speeds are noticeably faster on NBN for my area and plan anyway.

Kevin

[John King]

I have Telstra Ultimate cable. I almost always get around 113 Mbps down, but a truly miserable 2.56 Mbps upload ... Hardware limitations of the existing HFC servers (early 1990s), I am led to believe.

[Brendo09]

I look like finally getting on board in the next three months.

Fixed Wireless with Telstra (no other service providers in the area) giving me 1000gb for $115.

Currently I'm using a Mobile Wireless USB modem over a Dovodo wireless router for ... wait for it.... $175 a month for ...wait again... 25Gb. Boom. NO ADSL at the local exchange, so that's the only option.

Anyway, better days ahead.

[ameerat42]

Gosh!! I hope that 115 covers telephony as well.
Do you want to hate me?

I get for $90: 30/1.8 Mbits/sec UNltd; all Aus calls to everything but 19xx numbers.
All calls to 25 O'seas countries, 4 of which we call; all calls to 7 O'seas mobiles, 3 of
which we use.

I am a well-known ranter for country rights - but no-telco listens.
Now, hayte away

[chubb]

The small town i live in is a non NBN island surrounded by wireless service but there is no date on when my place will get it. I dont know why they couldnt of connected my town when the entire shire surrounding it bar the main town 5min away is hooked up. It's very frustrating!

[KevPride]

If you actually watched the NBN contractors working you would readily understand how & why it is taking this long and costing this much. Some of the contractors in our area September/ November 2015 - I had no less the 4 separate visits to view access onto our site - our area is all underground services - 2 stated they would need to directionally drill a new hole and feed new pipes and cables into house. One wanted to cut into newly laid concrete paths/ driveway to install new pipes etc, I shook my head each time. Finally when they left the area and it was left up to me to contact Telstra contractor who looked at the new pit I had installed in 2012 and said easy we will use this. A week later he was back with a mate and roof cabling all fitted out to street in under 2 hours. Meanwhile 4 other houses within viewing distance had 5-6 guys directional drill fresh new holes and spent days on site for each house. I'm sure all they wanted was what gave them the best $ income for their company.

[I @ M]

After nearly one year from starting this thread and over the last month or so the NBN has arrived here.
Mind you, the first trained monkeys skilled technicians who came to install it turned up without a ladder or a bracket to mount the antenna so it was rebooked for 20 days later. Then on Monday another skilled technician turned up but it was raining heavily and the job could not go ahead.
It was then scheduled for installation on the 4th of July but after a few phone calls questioning a few peoples ancestry it was finally installed today.
For people like us in rural areas it is simply staggering to be able to view web content so quickly.

The NBN fixed wireless at work on a 25 / 5 plan.

[jim]

For people like us in rural areas it is simply staggering to be able to view web content so quickly.

The NBN fixed wireless at work on a 25 / 5 plan.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5427300692.png

It's a bit staggering for me too on the rare occasions I manage similar figures, and I'm on Telstra cable and in suburban Sydney. Meanwhile the status of the NBN on our area is approximately "just forget about it".

My mobile phone performs much better.