So it looks like NBN costs are increasing. My provider has just said their 50/20 is going up to $79.95 a month.
The data on my phone plan is significant and I'm not increasing my net use by gaming or streaming at the levels I once was. I'm questioning for the first time should I get rid of NBN?
So it's poll time because I'm depressed, post Eurovision.
Feel free to discuss if you've dropped speeds or you're churning, etc.
Does superloop still have that offer?
If NBN expensive, you can try the iinet wireless option, if that works for you.
$55/month for the first 12 months then $90/month after for a terrible service
$55/month for the first 12 months then $90/month
Where did you got that info from? I was refering to this https://www.iinet.net.au/internet-product/broadband/nbn/plan…
Only you can answer that. You can get nbn 50/20 for around $60/m.
The more 35% off deal isn’t hard to get, and that would give you 50/20 for $57.2/month for 12 months.
You need to shop around is the answer, as plenty of discounts available which gives you 6 or 12 months to decide depending on provider.
Also NBN co have increased the cost on the lower tier plans so you might even find upgrading the speed gets you cheaper bandwidth overall.
As the cost of the 100Mbps and above plans have all been decreased or are in the process of doing so. Depends on provider and the agreements in place.
Phone reception in my area is not good enough to use 4G all the time.
Elon network?
More expensive than nbn
Hmm :-/
Does anyone have experience with using Felix or similar as their home internet through and old phone?
Seeming like a decent option
OP: I'm depressed, post Eurovision.
wut?
If it's too expensive then move to a different provider. I did that recently after being with TPG for years.
Eurovision ? You seriously need to get a life .
Will have to pry my 1000/50 from my cold dead fingers…
I’ve just moved from Internode after being a 27 year long customer to Superloop, I’ve had better nbn connectivity through them I feel.
Netflix on internode often wouldn’t connect with errors & multiple retries.
$99/month for 6 months then $109/month 1000/50 plan.
Internode went to sh*t after the TPG takeover.
I'm with Aussie Broadband. Last price change I had was a price cut from $99 to $95 per month (100/20). Haven't heard anything from them (yet) about any price increase.
Right now I am with the superloop free 2 month deal but I churn from free/cheap NBN deals to phone data to splitting the neighbours NBN connection. Rarely pay more than $20 PM, usually free.
NBN is great. Much better than the ADSL it has largely replaced. Just a shame it wasn't the full plan Labour created but the shitty one the Liberals cut it back to.
Politics aside, $80 a month is cheap for it though, I'd be quite happy paying up to $100 a month for nbn.
You would likely have been able to get it sooner and it would be an option for more people.
You would likely have been able to get it sooner
Doubt it, have had it for a few years now.
The data on my phone plan is significant and I'm not increasing my net use by gaming or streaming at the levels I once was. I'm questioning for the first time should I get rid of NBN?
Our house consumes just under 1TB of data a month, so won't be replacing that anytime soon with a mobile service.
It will depend on how much data you use, for what works best for you.
Has The nbn Got Too Expensive
It's one of the few utilities that has been getting cheaper and cheaper…
Completely true, the 100/40 plans used to all be around $100/month, and the top speed plans were closer to $200/month. The range of prices is a lot smaller than it used to be.
I got my first internet connection in 1996 through through Adam Internet. It cost $40 per month plus $30 per month for a second telephone line. The speed was 56K. Slightly better value now I reckon.
Only true if you are on 100 or higher, every plan under that has got more expensive with NBN trying to push people onto higher tier plans
My provider has just said their 50/20 is going up to $79.95 a month
For that price might as well pay $5 more for 100/20
My parents get fixed wireless 66/15 (under testing) for $65. 50/20 for like $65 - $75pm is a joke in metro areas.
Not sure what NBN is up to. Surely it would be better a lot more people on 50/20 vs 100/20 because your peak download spike would be lower.
Not sure what NBN is up to.
Encouraging people onto faster plans…
They're going to increase speeds for the top tiers later this year/early next year too…
My option isn't there!!! 'I have never had or needed NBM' - mobile broadband for me <3
so sorry for my faux pas …NBN I meant :P
Just ran a speedtest on my Aussie Broadband
Download 267.6 Mbps
Upload 22.6 Mbps
Anyone downgraded from 250meg to 100meg and noticed much difference for gaming? Just to save cash.
Currently on NBN Super-Fast 250Mbps/25Mbps Unlimited ($119.00)
I just did a speedtest on my Leaptel 50/20 plan.
Download 94.14
Upload 19.14
Very doubtful you’ll notice any difference with gaming between 250 and 100mbps. It really only matters for downloads saturating downlink, which gaming doesn’t really do.
No difference while gaming on 250Mbps vs 100Mbps. The difference will be in downloading game updates. You can get 250/25 for around $85/m elsewhere.
OP asked 2 question.
How about making 2 seperate polls?
NBN cost has blown out by tens of billions of dollars through poor planning and horrendous inefficiency.
Thousands of dollars per household have been wasted, so of course you can't get a $30/month plan like we used to have with ADSL.
I reckon within a couple of years it will be worth even families switching to satellite or 5G wireless, and the government will have to write off more tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.
That’s what people used to say 2-3 years ago. 5G will destroy NBN! Did it though?
You sound like somebody in 1905 saying the motor care still has not killed the horse and buggy.
Already for many people, 4G is an economical alternative, and faster. I can't get by with CG-NAT though.
Well, ok, if you think that 4G is faster than an NBN connection…
@verio: Why do you talk like that? Don't be an arse. It sounds insecure, insincere and rude.
To answer the question a decent person might have asked in your position, many people are still not on fibre.
@bargaino: The majority of people are either on fibre, HFC or FTTC. Check the latest stats on tech mix. Each will be faster and way more reliable than 4G.
But hey, you can live in your own world where 4G is faster for many people. Its fine.
@verio: There you go again. Are you like that in real life, or just another internet toxic person? Maybe quit before it spills into real life.
For anyone else, 4G easily does faster than 100Mb on the cheap plans, and last I checked, most NBN customers are on 50 or 100Mb plans (or slower).
NOT that this is very relevant to the original question. Speed ain't everything of course.
It's frustrating on FTTN paying more and more to get less… 5 years ago we could get 80/20 on our line… Now it's 50/11 at best… And at the same time were getting 2 price increases in a year… If only I could sign up for a reduced 50/10 plan …..
Save money on phone + phone plan ( G84 for ~300 odd off one of the deals here) + monthly plan of ~$15 that covers essentials for work etc.
So what way, I can afford to spend money on my gigabit home internet, which myself and 5 other family members (who also similar don't burn money on smartphones).
Its always funny seeing people with $2000 smartphones cry about their "slow internet" at home.
But I use my phone for about 95% of my internet usage plus my phone is my only camera and my only car navigation system etc..
Can’t see why getting a shitty phone in order to have a faster internet connection at home is logical.
Add to poll: I use Boost deals for WiFi
I'd love to hear from anyone who's successfully done this, as someone who's thinking of churning Boost/Amaysim deals to use as home internet for the forseeable future.
This ! It's been 5 months since I cancelled my NBN plan after More 40% offer expired. Even speed on Boost is amazing, no problem with streaming HD movies, whereas on NBN I would get occasional streaming issues.
I pay 65$ for 1000/250.
In Germany. Australia sucks.
When I lived in Sydney I had a 500gb 5g plan for 60$ last year. That was enough for 2 people. Typical download speeds of 300-400 megabit.
I don't think anyone has mentioned an easy way to save 50% or more on your NBN bill: share a connection with your neighbour.
Is anyone doing that already? You don't even need to run ethernet under the fence, as mesh networks are so good, and will do isolated virtual LANs easily.
I once had a neighbour who asked me to share my wifi password. He didn’t want to pay me. His logic was I am already paying for unlimited data anyway.
A bit rude, I'd give him the guest network password, bandwidth limited if necessary (but probably won't be), and later ask for for a favour from him. It is good to build relations with neighbours. Of course if they are streaming Netflix all night, then ask for their user/password on that. Netflix won't even flag it as illegal sharing!
i pay $74.25 per month for 1000/50…
2 months free with superloop now, then churn to abb for a month free then churn to another provider (offering a month or 2 free) or to leaptel for $99 a month and stay for 9 months and repeat