Optus is now taking online orders for its 5G home wireless broadband plan. You can check if its available at your address via deal link.
Details:
Unlimited data $70 per month (50Mbps guaranteed speed)
Available in 24-month contract (No start-up fee) or month-month ($200 Start-up fee). 1st month free applies to both terms.
Both plans have a network satisfaction guarantee which will let you cancel the service if you're not getting speeds of at least 50Mbps. More info here
Unavailable everywhere, whats the point
Even botany Sydney cant get it must be 1 km from cbd to get it….
That's why they don't show a coverage map. Its embarrassingly small coverage.
@smogg: Thks smogul, interesting city cbd are not done. Pretty hit and miss. Looks do some towers first and see how it goes
For those asking about the ping for games. I'm using the 4g mobile broadband and it's better than my old ADSL2.
Really? What sort of ping times are you achieving. I lost my competitive gaming spirit when the internode gaming servers closed down years ago - my pings went from 8ms on node servers to 26ms on national generic gaming servers and I blamed that on my gaming skill downfall.
Optus mobile speeds have over the last 18 months gradually declined in country areas to the point where I have 2 sim cards in my phone so at least one has data at a rate to be able to read some mails. I changed from Telstra after they failed to deliver texts between 2 Telstra phones and refused to fix an endless band 28 dropout issue on my $1000 Telstra phone! Anybody got recent Voda experience?
5G Home Broadband isn't available in your area yet
is this deal unlimited downloads?
Yes. Hence 'Unlimited data" :P
Thought I might be able to take this over the long overdue NBN in my area only to find out this is not available either. I wonder which one will arrive first.
It is still early days, hopefully it only gets better from here. The potential is looking good though and least heading in the right direction.
So what is the potential peak down speed for this 5g? What is the up speed?
We need 4G unlimited plan now, come on Optus!
5g node is 450m from my house. Ill report back on how this venture goes!
Soo…
A few comments here have asked for 4G unlimited plan. Just thought i'd contribute. My office subscribes to a Telstra business internet which has backup 4G. Because the adsl2+ in our area is slow, we have set the modem use the 4G connection permanently. That's effectively unlimited 4G for $100 per month. https://www.telstra.com.au/small-business/internet/plans
That sounds nice and all, but I'd imagine they would monitor it fairly decently…
"If we reasonably believe you are misusing the back-up service, we will contact you. If you continue to misuse the back-up service, we may:
suspend or limit your mobile broadband back-up service; and/or
cancel your mobile broadband back-up service by telling you at least 7 days beforehand"
Can you confirm what 4G speeds you actually get, I just read that the 4g connection on this is throttled to 6mbps down and 1mbps up.
This is true in all my customer's cases. When it drops out to 4G it drops down to 6Mbps. Never heard anything different but would love cucumber to show us the 4G speedtest.
Tested a minute ago with Google speed test:
23.6Mbps down, 7.79Mbps up, 48 ms latency
Interested if somebody might have experimented taking modem out by an extension cord to pull say a quarter gigabit/s, outdoors? More impressive yet, whether plan can reach an uplink 50Mbps which would reflect a real alternative against fixed line 100.00 a month.
Looks good. I have 5G coverage in my area. Wondering if VOIP is going to work on Optus 5G. It does not work on Optus 4G.
Hi guys,
It's been a week and a half so far on 5g.
Speeds average out around 120-160mbps in peak times, max speed was 410mbps at 11pm. Upload much more consistent between 20-40mbps.
Frequent dropouts during peak times. Seems to be once every hour the last few days during peak times. I haven't tested the performance during the day. Also it often throttles down to 3mbps for some reason then fixes itself.
Overall not a positive experience so far, very unreliable. I'll send a message of Optus and report back in a week.
How did it go?
Yeah how it go??
Yeah how did it go?
Mmmmmm,wavee