If you're stuck on Skymuster for your internet here is a good deal for cheaper downloads. Harbour ISP are offering double peak data for the first six months on their 65/100 GB plans - so you get 130GB peak downloads for $50 per month.
Must sign up for 12 month contract. Ends 31/12/18.
My Activ8me contract was up so I've just churned over on this deal.
Shocking compared to my city cousins…Max 3Mb/s, but speed isn't the problem it's the download quotas that suck (oh and latency - ping times are pretty funny)
The private sector doing it's typical hopeless job while charging ripoff prices.
Countries with state owned monopolies are charged about 40 bucks for gigabit speeds up and down right now.
Australia is busy paying Telstra 50 billion dollars so that half the country continues to use copper wire for the next 50 years while still being ripped off by the private sector.
Errrr, dude, you are confused. Private sector were screwing us over before the NBN. Telstra with high copper wholesale access, resellerss monetizing peak/offpeak/excess data etc. The margins for resellers on the NBN are quite small. The high cost of the NBN (for a multitude of reasons), and the current political desire to re-coup as much of that as possible is why costs are as they are. It is NBN and Government driven, and you can blame both parties for it.
@Xizor: You must have read something else because from what I read he was clearly advocating government owned infrastructure for being cheaper and faster in other countries which it is.
@Maverick-au: Yes often is, but the fact is the Australian government own the NBN, it's not been privatised (yet, ha) so you need to dig into it to understand the contradiction in why we pay what we pay. It does not need to be a monopoly to be cheap, plenty of countries in Europe show this. The vast majority of the cost we pay to a reseller goes back to the NBN to cover their capital outlay (some of which related to buying Telstra and Optus assets). If you are on the NBN it's not the private sector ripping off consumers (for the most part) as was often the case before the NBN, it's the NBN charging high wholesale access to the reseller to recover the capital outlay. There is plenty of news publications which outline all this in particular with the CVC charging, its not insider industry stuff.
@Xizor: Take a look at the people doing the work, private companies who pay their employees minimum wage or below.
Look at the payments going to Telstra which was sold off by the government.
Look at the multiple changes in direction for the NBN.
There are problems with everypart of the NBN and most are because of our shit government but the money being wasted is mostly going to private companies.
The NBN could have been a nation building project offering jobs and skills to many our of work Australians as well as skilled Australians but instead we are flooded with 457 holders doing a shit job.
It's beyond a disgrace the cost of the rubbish we are being given and we have missed yet another opportunity to provide jobs and build something that would allow us to compete online with other countries.
@Xizor: Didn't Telstra sell the entire copper network (which had basically zero value) to NBN (federal govt) for a ridiculous amount of money? Or am I confused?
Latency can be so bad, typical 600ms up to 2000ms. This results in even the most basic web pages taking a long time to load. I'd say dialup is more responsive. Try fixed wireless or 4G over this.
Fixed Wireless is a bit of a crapshoot.
The fixed wireless towers are ridiculously oversubscribed in some areas. NBNco are aware of it and are doing upgrades for a lot of the towers, but even with the upgrades, you're not guaranteed to have a better connection than on the LTSS (Long Term Satellite Service) at this time.
It's also worth noting this - https://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/the-nbn-project/new-wholesale-…
Essentially NBNco have made it so that the only way any of the RSP's make a profit is by selling 50/20. Think this kicks in across the board in March 2019.
Does anybody know if you can 'upgrade' your plan at the completion of the first six months of double data? Cause 65GB in peak is quite small.
What are your speeds like?