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2 Months Free nbn on Any Plan Including 1000/50 (Save up to $308, New Customers Only) @ Origin Broadband

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2 Months Free nbn on Any Plan Including 1000/50 (Save up to $308, New Customers Only) @ Origin Broadband
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kazer on 01/03/2022 - 11:52 originenergy.com.au (6233 clicks)
Last edited 05/03/2022 - 21:50 by 2 other users

Stumbled onto this on their website. 2 months free including the gigabit plan from Origin which is basically whitelabelled Aussie Broadband. Best signup offer so far imo
Enjoy :)

Terms and Conditions for Mega March Internet Offer

  1. The Mega March internet offer (Offer) is available to new Origin internet residential customers who sign up direct with Origin over the phone by calling 1300 674 446 and entering pin 574 or online at http://origin.com.au/internet to any nbn™ or fibre plan between 9am EST on 1 March 2022 and 11:59pm EST (if signing up online) or 10:00pm EST (if signing up over the phone) on 7 March 2022, (Offer Period).
  2. If you sign up during the Offer Period, you will receive your first two months of internet at no charge.
  3. The Offer applies to the monthly subscription charge only and does not apply to any other fees or charges such as
    charges for VOIP, set-up and hardware charges.

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  • love2buy on 01/03/2022 - 16:25

    Will my connection be better if I switch from belong $70 plan to this? Sorry don't know anything about broadband.

    • Irishness on 01/03/2022 - 16:51

      Belong $70 is 50/20 plan, which Origin one do you want? Aussie broadband is better than Belong IMO but while I know Origin use ABB I haven't had enough time to say whether it is of equal service

      • love2buy on 01/03/2022 - 18:38

        Just something equivalent. The modem was supplied by Belong so that should work with Origin right? I have a lot of slow downs with Belong but I don't know if that is something inherent with broadband in general or whether it's Belong's fault. Anyway, I don't know if Belong still covers the modem if I do switch as last time lightning took down the modem and they promptly came and replaced a new one. So still deciding. Cheers.

        • Irishness on 02/03/2022 - 08:56
          +1

          if it were me I'd choose Origin over Belong, do you know what service you are on, hfc, FTTN, FTTB or FTTC?
          yes the belong modem should work it may need some settings changed but support can easily help you with that. Problem with slow downs there are so many factors like your wifi channels etc it isn't always the actual speed of the connection

        • Attaca on 02/03/2022 - 10:18

          Same!! 6 requests later, no improvements. Time to vote with feet

  • Tavisophical on 01/03/2022 - 16:29
    +1

    Anyone know what Origin's cancelation policy is like? Do they require a 30 day notice period like TPG?

  • Cappuccino1 on 01/03/2022 - 16:43

    What’s the process of canceling? Should we just find a new provider and let them to do the switch?

    • Irishness on 01/03/2022 - 16:52
      +1

      I read you need to call them

    • donb on 02/03/2022 - 00:43
      +1

      Got this from Origin after signing up:” Your previous internet service will stop as soon as your Origin Broadband service is live. Once your Origin Broadband service is up and running, we recommend you cancel your account with your previous provider as this may not happen automatically.
      To cancel your service/s after connection, you must call us on 1300 980 711 to ensure a pro-rata credit is applied. You may close your service with us at any time during your billing period and receive a pro-rata credit or refund. Please note: a pro-rata credit or refund will not be given in situations where we have cancelled your service as per our terms and conditions.
      If we need to cancel your service/s, we will provide you with 60 days’ notice (although we may cancel without notice if you breach our terms and conditions or our 'fair use' policy, fail to pay your bill, or are abusive to our staff).”

      • Cappuccino1 on 02/03/2022 - 07:58

        Thanks. Will need to call then anyway.

  • Futura on 01/03/2022 - 17:10

    Dang it. Got CCTV cameras so this won't work as it's CGNAT.

    • Twix on 01/03/2022 - 17:17

      It depends on the model of the cams. My cams work over CG-NAT.

      • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:30
        +1

        I am going to guess that's probably some kind of cloud set up. So the camera feed goes through a cloud computer. When you are not in the house you can then get the feed via the cloud.

        • Twix on 01/03/2022 - 17:35

          Yep I can access the cams from the cloud and locally.

          • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:37
            +1

            @Twix: Suspect DRIFT2000 is referring to some kind of self-hosted situation. If that's the case then yes it's a bit of effort to bypass the CGNAT.

            • Futura on 01/03/2022 - 17:39

              @CoronavirusVaccine: I am using Sighthound (Like BlueIris or Shinobi). I use the Public IPv4 on mobile device app to access the streams.

              • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:44
                +1

                @Futura: I've written a guide to bypass CGNAT a while back on OzB. If you can be bothered to set it up you could use that so you can still take advantage of these deals.

              • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:56

                @Futura: Curious how is Sighthound different to the other products - anything you could highlight from your personal experience? I paid for a Blue Iris license a while back but I am on the lookout for easier/beginner-friendly recognition features. At the moment I've got a program called DOODS to do object-recognition to try cut down false positives. It works but definitely would prefer something else with object-detection built in. Also Blue Iris is Windows only so that is a bit annoying.

                • Futura on 01/03/2022 - 20:17

                  @CoronavirusVaccine: I went with Sighthound as it was the most user friendly on iOS for my in-laws and acts like a off the shelf consumer security camera. The app on Android is ok but still miles ahead of Blue Iris. I have it running on a 4th Gen Intel Win 10 machine.

                  • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 21:51

                    @Futura: Thanks! With your recommendation I looked into it a bit more and it does seem to more modern in terms of its object recognition and exposed software integrations.

                    Can you share how much CPU utilisation you get on the 4th Gen intel machine (i3/i5/i7?) and how many cameras?

                    When I was dabbling with other object detection packages the CPU utilisation was so high that I had to script the object detection to be triggered by Blue Iris' motion detection in order to keep CPU utilisation low. Motion detection consumes far less CPU so most of the time my object detection lies dormant. Pretty annoying but my box has a 6-core i5-8500T so Blue Iris can make use of hardware decoding in the iGPU but gets a bit hot if object detection is running at full throttle.

                    This kind of workload can be a lot faster and more efficient when offloaded to dedicated hardware but I've never had AI accelerators to play with.

          • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:40
            +2

            @Twix: can't wait for IPv6 to become universal. The adoption is taking forever

            • Twix on 01/03/2022 - 17:42

              @CoronavirusVaccine: In 10 years maybe haha.

              • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 17:47
                +1

                @Twix: Sadly that doesn't surprise me. I still don't get how IPv6 managed to become this tricky to set up…. It was meant to make things easier!

                • Futura on 01/03/2022 - 20:24

                  @CoronavirusVaccine: This thread here seems to indicate you can opt out of CGNAT https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/3yqmj0zw

                  • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 21:34

                    @Futura: Indeed.

                    Since Origin Broadband is new so there might have been some confusion from the customer service rep in the early days - no surprise given the technical nature of the request. From the thread it seems even the customer service reps have different understanding on whether it's permitted and whether the change is permanent.

                    If ABB customers can do it , there's no reason why Origin Broadband customers can't have it from a technical standpoint. I would guess this level of detail is not specified in the agreement between ABB and Origin and so there's plenty of room for subjective interpretation by the service reps. Until Origin writes it down in the Critical Info Summary or T&Cs in black and white there is always going to be some uncertainty around this.

                    • polstralian on 02/03/2022 - 09:53
                      +1

                      @CoronavirusVaccine: Regarding CGNAT. Beware guys!

                      I called the Origin NBN tech support yesterday after spotting this deal, just to confirm that once signed up I will be able to opt out from CGNAT. I spoke to somebody from their technical support who put me on a brief hold just to double check if this can be done. He came back to me all confident confirming that CGNAT can be 'easily' opted out from when I become their customer.

                      As a next step (so silly!) I cancelled my discounted Superloop (still had $20.00 off for the next 5 months) and went with Origin. It was all set up within less than an hour (FTTP).

                      I reached out to the Origin tech support again to have that CGNAT dealt with it as discussed previously. To my disbelief, this time around I was told that this is 'technically impossible' and there is not much that can be done for me. Meanwhile (how silly of me) I have already lodged a request with Superloop to have my service cancelled the following day.

                      I spoke to a supervisor on duty (Origin) and explained this utterly unprofessional experience. He apologised, blamed it on thier internal communication issues due to Origin being a new white label of a well known broadband company, however he also highlighted that Origin specifically agreed to CGNAT only when coming into an agreement with Aussie Broadband (of course he did not disclose the name of this 'mysterious NBN company'.
                      All in all, he lodged an internal complaint and I lodged my first complaint in years with TIO.

                      So I ended up with a free, pretty fast service with no external access to my home servers and security cameras. Lost my Superloop discount too. I am pretty disappointed… with myself. Should have been smarter about this.

                      • cr4sh0verride on 02/03/2022 - 10:09
                        +1

                        @polstralian: You've lost 1 specific way to access your home server and cameras.

                        There are plenty of other ways to access them behind the CGNAT without too much difficulty

                        Creating a free Argo Tunnel with Cloudflare would be an easy way to overcome this.

                        Also I noticed there were other mentions in this thread in which you can contact AussieBB directly with your account number and pay $5 for a static IP. Did you try that method?

                        • polstralian on 02/03/2022 - 10:23
                          +1

                          @cr4sh0verride: I wasn't aware of this. I will look into both options. Thank you!

                          Edit: I just looked up your Cloudflare recommendation and it seems quite tricky in fact.

                        • CoronavirusVaccine on 02/03/2022 - 21:33

                          @cr4sh0verride: do you need to own a domain name to use Argo Tunnel? Haven't had any experience with Cloudflare before and have only had dynamic DNS so far. Having Cloudflare as the edge definitely sounds a lot more secure than trying to set up my own cloud instance.

                          • cr4sh0verride on 03/03/2022 - 07:18

                            @CoronavirusVaccine: You do and you can get a .com domain directly with Cloudflare or buy a cheap domain somewhere else and transfer it across. It's definitely worth the few dollars per year to have your own domain.

                            There are plenty of tutorials of setting this up and it's not too hard here is a basic one but it depends what you want to do
                            https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/s…

                            The very basic way it works is that you use the cloudflare software to create a unique ID (UUID)
                            Then you create a tunnel to your domain using that UUID. The config yaml file you create as part of that connection will point the tunnel to where you want it to go, so you can point it at a local service on a local port ie, cameras.yourdomain.com:8888 etc

                            Then you set the DNS in cloudflare for "uuid".cfargotunnel.com to point to your domain cameras.yourdomain.com and all the traffic will be tunneled through to your local setup without the need of adding any port forwarding etc in your router and your local IP won't be exposed (the whole reason it works behind a CGNAT)

                            Hope that helps

                            • CoronavirusVaccine on 03/03/2022 - 08:41

                              @cr4sh0verride: Thank you so much for the explanation, that is very helpful! I really like this approach. In my brief look it reminds me of ngrok.

                              Do you know if there is any bandwidth limit on the tunnel?

                      • CoronavirusVaccine on 03/03/2022 - 08:47
                        +1

                        @polstralian: Gosh this is a disaster, I hear your pain!

                        Thank you for sharing your first hand experience - this will help other people to avoid the same pitfall.

                        In the corporate world this is likely going to take a while before it gets addressed unfortunately.

                        • polstralian on 03/03/2022 - 20:21

                          @CoronavirusVaccine: There's more to this story…. It's a very, very 'unique' experience. They tracked down and listened to the call. I was oferred a static IP as a resolution yesterday. It was applied from Origin's end. It worked. Then this morning I was told it can't stay on the account as it's against their contract. They were unable to remove it though. So I have it active till the end of the month. I appreciate thier willingness to help but it all could have been easily avoided.

                          • CoronavirusVaccine on 03/03/2022 - 21:12
                            +1

                            @polstralian: What a debacle - so many twists and turns! So sad it sounds like my work place (a different industry altogether) - all the people are very helpful individually but nothing works together.

                            Confusing info and ever-changing understanding on whether this can be done is far worse than a straight-up no.

                            I suppose it's a good reason to learn to bypass CGNAT so that you keep your options open for these promotional offers and never have to worry about which RSP is on CGNAT. Admittedly it is a bit of learning curve setting these things up the first time.

  • Hvrd on 01/03/2022 - 18:26

    can you choose when they activate it

    • Irishness on 01/03/2022 - 18:32
      +3

      yes

      • Hvrd on 02/03/2022 - 18:20

        thanks

  • lazydesi on 01/03/2022 - 18:41
    -1

    I have Fttp connection and when i put the address why it says not available?

    update: my poi is due for update tonight. hence not taking orders.

  • Ilikecars on 01/03/2022 - 18:42

    Signed up today. Took 40 mins for changeover to occur in which I was without internet but wasn't an issue for me.

    Trying to cancel Spintel is a nightmare. Can't do it online because obviously they want to try and talk you out of it which is BS. Call them up and wait 30 minutes without answer, so then choose the option for them to call me. Later they call and I have to press 1 to confirm I am the person they are looking for. Upon confirming, the automatic response tells me my call is no longer available and hangs up rofl. Good workers Spintel.

    • Homr on 01/03/2022 - 21:27

      Aussie broadband was 45mins wait on the phone but I did speak to someone at the end

    • U30004 on 02/03/2022 - 07:59

      Why would you cancel at the start of the month. Spintel won't give you a prorated refund

  • AussieBoi90 on 01/03/2022 - 19:22

    Do they use IPOE like aussie, telstra, Belong etc

  • ultimatemike on 01/03/2022 - 19:31

    $99 OptiComm connection fee when I'm already connected to ABB through OptiComm?

    Come on guys you're just changing the account header in the Aussie BB CRM system 😂

    • regenade on 01/03/2022 - 21:02

      After submitting order just call ABB provisioning team on 1300980711, they should be able to waive the fee

  • U30004 on 01/03/2022 - 19:36

    My contract with spintel ends on 30th march. If join origin on 31st march, is that going to mess things up with the free months?

    • Stahh on 01/03/2022 - 19:55

      Not sure if you have to call Spintel to cancel your contract and if you have that should work otherwise it would be safer to connect to the new ISP a day before IE on the 29th March and make sure you cancel before the 30th.

  • chuneeperformance on 01/03/2022 - 20:04

    Finally got a email and this is added in it:

    Your add-ons
    Promotional code applied to your account: 2 months free (2ndfree)

    Why the bracket????

    • [Deactivated] on 01/03/2022 - 21:30

      Thought it was the promo code or offer title for their internal system. Honestly why even worry about it. The offer is clearly stated.

    • umoddbro on 01/03/2022 - 21:44
      +1

      It's their promo code so their system knows which offer.

  • Jazza80Four on 01/03/2022 - 20:48

    Is Origin any good for electricity services? I'm about to move house and need a provider. Cheers

    • slankets on 01/03/2022 - 23:43
      +1

      Fine for me. I have gas and elec with them.

    • donb on 02/03/2022 - 00:58
      +4

      DYOR, I change electricity providers regularly (normally when they send a price increase notification). Always found the big name providers to be expensive, even after discounts. I’ve moved to ReAmped this year (lowest daily supply charge plus great rates). Also got $50 credit from referral https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/475414

  • kungfuman on 01/03/2022 - 20:57

    crap upload speeds

    • Homr on 01/03/2022 - 21:26
      -1

      what you need fast upload speeds for?

      • CoronavirusVaccine on 01/03/2022 - 22:41

        content creator or streaming celebrity?

        • kungfuman on 02/03/2022 - 09:19

          its called cloud backups. having a crappy upload speed means gigabytes of files are doing to upload painfully slow to cloud storage.

          I am a content creator and a freelance video editing projects and photography projects on the side.

          a single project can be between 50gb to as big as 200gb depending on how many hours of footage. having a shitt 50mbps upload speed itsn't worth it, if I were to upgrade to a gigabit connection. I currently have a 250mbps link with a 100mbps uploads. if I were to go to a gigabit I would expect at least 500mbps upload speeds not 50.

          • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:29

            @kungfuman: Regardless of what you expect, NBN only offer 400Mbps uploads. If you do want it for a day, you can get it for $10 from Launtel. There are some networks that do affordable residential symmetrical gigabit, but those are only in a handful of locations.

            • kungfuman on 02/03/2022 - 09:36

              @[Deactivated]: I am on opticomm fiber apparently thats separate from the NBN. But I know with citycomms if your on a business plan you get get up to a 1gbps uploads speeds. Home user plans seems to be restricted to just 400mbps uploads.

          • CoronavirusVaccine on 02/03/2022 - 21:43

            @kungfuman: Hi there, just curious is cloud backups for this kind of volume actually cheaper than buying your own harddrives? I recognise the benefit of an offsite backup but that aside how much cheaper is it? From what you are saying there is considerable time cost and uplink bandwidth cost in using cloud backup option.

      • Save 50 Cent on 01/03/2022 - 23:49

        To upload shit on the internet!

  • cosmos on 01/03/2022 - 21:30
    +2

    Thank you !!
    Just jumped from ABB (had a free month as well) today, and service already active and working well, moved on to their 1000 Mbps.

    • Bargainolic on 02/03/2022 - 17:15

      Same boat, same action. Will cancel before end the the 2nd free month to hopefully another freebie

  • Kemalatasikdiarman on 01/03/2022 - 22:00
    -1

    Just signed up thank you OP

  • Kirbz252 on 01/03/2022 - 22:18
    +1

    Great timing. My Superloop 6 month $20 discount comes to an end this month. All signed up for 1000/50. Thanks OP.

    Does anyone know if the MyAussie App works with Origin?

    • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 07:53

      Would like to know about the app too.

  • theguyrules on 01/03/2022 - 22:52

    Signed up and active tonight too.

  • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 00:08

    Existing Origin elec/gas customers can get $10/month off by bundling. Tempting!

    I also see payment must be made by direct debit. I wonder if I can just pay the bill in advance before due date via PayPal funded by CC like I do with the gas/elec bill.

    • Irishness on 02/03/2022 - 08:57
      +1

      you can pay by credit card

      • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 09:05

        but surcharge when signing up. I think I can get the bill and pay by CC using auspost (funded with paypal/CC) to avoid surcharge.

        • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 16:36
          +1

          I worked out how to avoid the credit surcharge when using Origin: sign up with DD using bank details. Then once you've signed up and can log into the ABB portal (do forget username then forget password), update your payment method there to CC (no surcharge).

  • DemocracyManifest on 02/03/2022 - 00:38

    Awesome thank you, Telstra deal about to end

  • jamm on 02/03/2022 - 08:45
    +1

    Good deal - signed up for 1000/50

    • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 09:15

      me too thank you OP.
      going to downgrade plans (or cancel) if i cannot downgrade as 100/20 is enough for me

      • Yuri Lowell on 04/03/2022 - 12:09

        Does it cost a fee to downgrade after the 2 free months?

  • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 08:47

    It's been 12 hours since I signed up and still not active. I chose the 1000/50 plan, I'm on FTTP with existing 1000/50 ABB service.

    • Irishness on 02/03/2022 - 09:29

      have you received confirmation emails/sms?

      • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:34

        Yes I got the Step 1 order confirmation email & SMS

        • Irishness on 02/03/2022 - 09:40

          when mine switched yesterday I got initial step 1 confirmation, once they started the process I then got step 2 & step 3 emails within 10mins of each other, in total 30-40mins for the switch it was working before the confirmation sms
          I'd suggest your switch has not commenced or there is an issue with it

    • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:33
      -1

      You can't have two gigabit services active at once. I'm not even sure you can order them at the same address at once. Cancel the ABB service.

      • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:34

        I am hoping they just churn the service.

        • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:45
          -1

          That's not really how FTTP works. You need to cancel. I had Swoop recently, and they added a second service on the next port to troubleshoot, but it had to be 250 because it was not possible to have two 1000 connections at once. It's a limitation from NBN.

          • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:47

            @[Deactivated]: When I took up Exetel they churned my Launtel service without asking, so I do know that's how it works. It depends on the RSP. Lower grade RSPs will just churn, premier ones like Launtel and Swoop will put on next available port.

            • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:49

              @Futura: No, that's how Exetel works. As you said, the default is to activate on the next port. The best option is to let you choose yourself, but the only one I have seen that lets you choose is MyRepublic.

              • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:50
                -1

                @[Deactivated]: Stop giving out wrong advice and stick to your day job, hopefully not in telco.

                • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:55
                  +1

                  @Futura: It's not wrong. You can't have two gigabit services active at once, but if you'd prefer to just hope it fixes itself, carry on.

                  • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:56
                    -1

                    @[Deactivated]: No one discussed the fact of having two gigabit services. I know you can't have 2 x 1000 services, this is about churning. I hope you're not the infamous Hodge.

                    • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2022 - 09:57

                      @Futura: So the question then is did Origin churn you, or did they try to activate on the next available port? Did the activation message tell you which port, did you ask them? Or are you just hoping? Wait, that sounds like advice. I'll stop now.

                      • Futura on 02/03/2022 - 09:58

                        @[Deactivated]: I haven't heard from them since the Step 1 confirmation email. Going by other comments it seems like people are getting churned.

                        • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2022 - 11:11
                          +1

                          @Futura: I had to sign up over the phone because online doesn't want to work for me. Origin do not churn by default on FTTP. I have a current gigabit connection. They called me back about 45 mins later giving me the option to churn or connect at a lower speed. I explained that neither would be required since I had already scheduled my existing connection to be canceled the day before Origin was to be connected.

  • Irishness on 02/03/2022 - 09:17
    +3

    So Origin users can unofficially use the My Aussie portal & app

    Go to https://my.aussiebroadband.com.au/#/login and click on 'forgot user name' at the bottom, enter your Origin account details, you will receive an email from aussie broadband
    Once you get your user name click on 'forgot password' on the same page as before, enter your user name and you're done, it'll ask you to change your password

    • slankets on 02/03/2022 - 16:16

      Tried this and it worked. Another way is to get in via My Origin portal and it's nearly the same but ABB's one is more feature packed.
      Thank you!

      btw I worked out how to avoid the credit surcharge when using Origin: sign up with DD using bank details. Then once you've signed up and can log into the ABB portal, update your payment method there to CC (no surcharge).

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