Hi,
I'm comparing NBN plans and I'm thinking of paying extra for premium speed (100/40), however, the connection to my house will be Fibre to the Curb (FTTC).
What's your experience with NBN speeds? Is it worth paying extra for premium speed?
Which ISP provider are you with and what's your speed like? Do they toggle your speed during peak usage?
My bad if this is meant for whirlpool, I just don't find them as useful or funny.
I'm with Aussie Broadband on a 100/40 FTTC connection. Usual speeds are about 90-95 down and 30-35 up.
The download speeds are usually overkill but extremely handy right now when we have 5 people at home all conferencing or streaming at once.
The upload speeds are great but only because I'm a tech nerd and need good upload speeds for Plex server and cloud backups. It means I can watch Plex on my mobile phone, which was almost impossible with pre-NBN upload speeds.
You get 90-95 on FTTC? Amazing!
When I was getting FTTC it was anywhere between 85-95.
I did however downgrade to a lower plan after awhile to test it out and found the 50/20 to be perfectly adequate for netflix, amazon and ABC to stream at the same time.
Now i've got FTTP it is around 90-95, needing the higher speeds to WFM.
I get 95 on HFC.. is that not typical of FTTC?
I get that with fttn (superloop), with the node being over 300m away not that amazing.
Thought that was normal. Fibre to the pole across the street, then about 20-25 metres of telephone wire to my house.
On installation, the guy was really worried about the old internal phone wiring in my house. I still got 90-95 Mbps but I also got brief dropouts every 30 minutes or so. Got a guy to come in and bypass the old wiring with a single cable into my server cupboard, the speed is still 90-95 but without the dropouts.
Getting 95/35 on a 100/40 plan, Aussie broadband fttc
It depends on if you need it - and if you can get it. If you talk to someone like Aussie Broadband they're honest about speeds, and will only sell you what you can get.
For me personally, as nice as the extra download speed is, the upload speed is what sells it for me (given that I move files about a fair bit with my work, video editing, large documents etc).
I've read good things about Aussie. Will give them a go, cheers.
What's your experience with NBN speeds? Is it worth paying extra for premium speed?
I'm with helstra and the speed is just that, NBN50 is 50/20 and NBN100 is 100/40 (note the new NBN100 is 100/20, so keep that in mind). I see around 80-90% of the quoted speed figures.
Is it worth it? Well I got NBN100 for 'free', so paying $90/m for unlimited NBN100 on helstra, so yeah for its worth it.
For you, it depends, are you a single person living at home? If so, then NBN50 will be fine, if you're a family of 12, then NBN100 is a must and try to see the NBN100 that is 100/40 (its around you have to ask for it).
Telstra Cable was great at my previous house but they at my current place they always toggle my ADSL2+. I've had enough, taking my money elsewhere!
Are you on ADSL or NBN? As they are two different beasts…..
Currently on ADSL2+. Switching to NBN. How so? I've been told the improvement is minor and to not expect any drastic improvements.
@FareEvader: minor? Ummm yes/no, it really depends on many things, but NBN50 will be at least two to three times 'faster' than what you have today at a guess.
What is your NBN tech? FTTN, FTTP, HFC, FTTC?
What speed does your ADSL 'sync' at now?
@Domingo: Oh yes ok, I see… Well NBN50 will be a 5x increase in speed, so start there I guess and can always move up if needed.
Two person household here. We managed fine on ADSL2+ so the unlimited 30/20 deal we're on is great. I'd much prefer to save $20-30 per month and wait a bit longer for the big downloads which I can normally do overnight.
I'm on ADSL2+ and it's unbearable now that entire household is WFH!
I've had 100/40 for a long time. I was thinking about dropping down to 50, but now that we're all working at home, the 40Mbit upload seems worth it.. doesn't seem any slower than being in the office.
I personally find it has increased my enjoyment of things quite a bit. I stream a fair bit of video at 1080p and it's nice having that quality available at all times.
Could never do that on ADSL, and even on some of the other 50/20 plans with non-premium providers I'd find the quality of network would drop out substantially in peak times. Aussie Broadband all the way for consistency, although you are paying the extra $10-20 a month for it.
I've read good things about Aussie, might give them a go. Are you on the 100/40 plan?
No might about it, just do it. Won't regret it. If you did, no contract so swap to someone else after a month or two.
If you're going to go with Aussie, make sure you either sign up with one of their "first month free" plans, or alternatively get a referral code from a friend/OzBargain - the code gives the referrer and referred person $50 credit.
I’m with cheapo internet paying 40 a month, and sometimes I reach my dl limit and get throttled to 1mps. Surprisingly I can still stream abcnews with it fine, video is crap but still works and my son can watch abc kids app fine too.
What I find with nbn over adsl is not so much the dl speeds that matter(it does,but not end of story) it’s the ping that matters.
Ping is the speed of traffic, like a freeway is 100 km as opposed to 60km. NBN is like 5 times faster than adsl in terms of ping.
Do you need high speed internet? If yes, then the high speed plan would be worth it. If not, no it won't be worth it.