Currently on 100/40 with Telstra via FTTN NBN.
I want to explore ways to get a faster upload speed. I don't need faster download speeds, a symmetrical 100/100 speed would be ideal but cant see anyone doing this.
Aussie Broadband offers a 250/100 plan for small business which is the best i've seen so far. Does anyone know of other companies that offer similar plans at a decent price?
I understand its probably not an option right now on FTTN but it would be good to know whats out there when/if I ever move into a house with FTTP.
Or will I have to wait for Elon Musk's Starlink?
Cheapest Way to Get Greater than 40mbps Upload Speed?
Riczter on 02/03/2020 - 03:28
Last edited 02/03/2020 - 03:28
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Agree - 4G, NBN Technology Choice Program or third party fibre are your main options.
Other than Optus 4G 500GB for $68, all are $$$…
glad its worth your while to be on a FTTN 100/40 plan….
my FTTN max line speed is 12/5…..
Telstra wont even sell you a 100mbs plan anymore if you are on FTTN/FTTC/FTTB so you are doing well.
What are your speeds like?https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-stops-offering-100mbp…
The ABB 250 plan is limited to FTTP customers
and they also have a 1GB plan for Consumer FTTP customers also.You got the short straw with FTTN so your ability to increase the speeds (and get them) is limited to switching to a MBB product
Telstra wont even sell you a 100mbs plan anymore if you are on FTTN/FTTC/FTTB
I was surprised about FTTC being excluded……. As this one was meant to go way faster than 100/40.
NBN haven't turned on G.Fast, the DPUs are all running in VDSL mode. So as it is, FTTC is just the same as FTTN on a short cable run
I dont even think they have any plans to offer G.Fast to anyone but corporate users
Getting 73 down and 38 up… Used to be as high as 92 down when it was first installed but the download speeds have been slowly dropping since. But i know I am pretty lucky to even get those speeds on FTTN, fortunately our node is on our next door neighbours front lawn.
Either your copper is truly awful, or you're not connected to that node, or NBN stuffed up the node location and the pillar that you're connected to is hundreds of metres away!
At distances less than 100m you should exceed 100/40.
Is it possible to exceed 100/40 on a 100/40 fttn plan?
Have you had your home rewired with new CAT6?
It’s an old house, we had a guy in to fix up the copper phone lines, he disconnected all the extra phone points and tidied up the line so it was a shorter run. If we ever got FTTP then I would but while we have that old copper run from the node to the house then there’s probably no point
@Riczter: Yeah removing the additional points helps. Not much else you can do except try another modem.
@Twix: Actually been quite impressed with Telstras latest “smart” gen2 modem. Nice wifi range increase over their old modems and the 4G Failover is a nice touch, even though it takes a good 60 seconds to kick in, meaning you still get DCed if you are in the middle of a game. Wish it could be more instantaneous
Currently on 100/40 with Telstra via FTTN NBN.
FARK you get 100/40 on FTTN!? You must be about the only person in Australia who is getting 100/40 on FTTN.
Aussie Broadband offers a 250/100 plan for small business
Not on FTTN they don't.
You can do a TCP upgrade quote and upgrade your FTTN to FTTP connection and then look at some higher speed uploads or with FTTP you can get 4 NBN connections, so you can get 2 x 100/40 plans and use a fancy modem to balance over the connections etc. (assuming its a single upload task)
Upgrade quote will be $7-30k.
Yep…. But depends on how much you really want that 100mb upload speed ;)
If its a home business, then you can write some off on tax I hear.
It's not exactly "written off"
a symmetrical 100/100 speed would be ideal
Why do you need a bigger upload speed?
There are a number of potential reasons that immediately spring to mind.
- Photography/Digital Media career/hobby
- Heavy use of cloud backup storage and a dislike of incrementals
- Extremely high quality video conferencing or the implementation of a non-cloud-based video conferencing meeting connector.
The actual reason though is irrelevant, as long as they've got the money for it.
The actual reason though is irrelevant
👍🏻 I was just curious.
I share a Plex media server with friends and family, as well as backup the media to backblaze cloud storage
You are on FTTN and getting 100 down and 40 up? Either you’re full of shit or I have to move suburbs…
If anything, you’re probably paying for 100/40 and only getting 40/20 speeds…
Currently 73/38, postcode 6166, node on my next door neighbours front lawn, around 5 houses on my street. I may have won the FTTN lottery, but the occasional intermittent dropouts are a pain in the ass especially when gaming…
I am currently on FTTN with TPG and I get very close to that. 90 down and 35 up. https://www.speedtest.net/result/9088747661.
The private sector fails again.
EU countries have gigabit up and down unlimited services for 40 euros.
Is that less than we pay for 40/20 sold as 100/40?
Instead Australia's internet is worse than the USA, another privatised hell hole country.
Great argument except NBN is not (yet) privately owned.
MTM NBN is solely to blame here.
FttP NBN also wouldn't have resolved the cost issue. We'd still be paying through the nose, but at least would get what we were paying for.
Calm down Diji, Bernie will fix it, so you can move there and let us be at peace.
The cheapest way is to hack into your neighbours 100/40 connection.
This question is impossible to answer without knowing approx. how much data needs to be uploaded each month.
Why? most plans offer unlimited data these days. Only interested in speed.
4G plans are not unlimited and that is realistically your only hope of improving your upload outside of bonding two NBN connections.
Probably getting two 100/40 consumer plans and aggregate, it will only be maybe 10-20% cheaper.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/the-nbn-hack-to-get-even-f…
I looked into this a while back and heard it can be a bit of mucking around to set this up and has its limitations. As far as i know this can only be done with FTTP but I am interested if anyone else is doing this and how reliable and easy to set up it has been for them? Would you get the full combined speeds for a single upload or does it only share the higher speeds over multiple uploads?
I wonder, is it possible to aggregate a fttn connection and a 4G connection together??? If so, that could be a good option
4G has a fair chance with a Netgear M1 or M2 or Huawei B818 modem.