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5G Home Internet 1TB/Month (Select Areas): $1 for First Month ($85/Month Ongoing), Stay 2 Years & Keep Modem for Free @ Telstra

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5G Home Internet 1TB/Month (Select Areas): $1 for First Month ($85/Month Ongoing), Stay 2 Years & Keep Modem for Free @ Telstra
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Telstra 5G Home Internet with 1TB of data per month.

Power your home internet with amazing 5G speed!
$1 first month then $85/mth with average download speeds of 291Mbps and upload speeds of 35Mbps 7-11pm.
Offer ends 1 July 2024. For new services. Select areas and eligible customers only. Limited number of services available per postcode. If you cancel within 24 months, return your modem within 21 days, or pay a $400 non-return fee.

We'll give you a heads-up at 50%, 85%, and 100% of your super-fast data. No worries if you go over—no extra charges! Your download speed will ease to 25Mbps, and uploads to 5Mbps.

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  • BitcoinKing on 15/06/2024 - 23:31

    What about Gaming latency?

    • Danta on 16/06/2024 - 01:25
      +3

      Was really bad from my house in Perth. Ended up going back to NBN. The latency was around 20ms higher than NBN but it gave lat spikes that made online gaming unplayable for me intermittently.

  • auug on 15/06/2024 - 23:43

    Only get this if your fixed line nbn connection is absolutely trash.

  • ujwols on 16/06/2024 - 00:02

    They are great but for my home need 1TB is nowhere near enough. Our monthly usage is about 3.5TB, so had to move away to NBN

    • nightelves on 16/06/2024 - 00:06

      Yeah that's the only thing I had about 5G. Apart from that the speed is so good.

  • coast666 on 16/06/2024 - 00:02

    What's difference between nbn and this ? Just upgraded my nbn to fttp, the process was painful, but it works now

    • nightelves on 16/06/2024 - 00:05

      5G is just plug and play and you can move the modem/router around. NBN you're stuck to one place.

      • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 13:53
        +1

        5G home internet is stuck at your home the same as nbn is.

        5G mobile broadband can be moved around to different locations.

        • kitiara666 on 17/06/2024 - 08:08

          And both has you at the mercy of your location (ok well not really NBN if its FTTP) speed wise

    • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 01:03
      +3

      5G home broadband is faster than some nbn types if you are close to the 5G tower and have no physical obstructions. 5G has a 1TB data limit and can have a higher latency.

      FTTP is the best fixed-line connection you can get, FTTP has faster download/upload speed tiers available, unlimited data and the lowest latency.

  • rickdwp on 16/06/2024 - 00:21
    +1

    Honestly screw Telstra. They have stolen untold billions from Australians with all their dodgy NBN shit, this is just part of that. Sell the crappy asbestos filled pits to the NBN Co. for billions, just to turn around in a few years and start flooding the market with cheaper wireless alternatives . No body should elect to give them a cent more.

    • kitiara666 on 17/06/2024 - 08:11
      +2

      Telstra aren't the reason, blame turdball and the liberals for their "Better/cheaper NBN" that any blind monkey back then could tell it was always going to end up this messy when they realized copper wasn't working (who'd of thunk it) to carry the NBN.

      But they are guilty on the overcharging part, and offloading support to overseas call centre's resulting in jobs being cut as a result and whole lot of other bs.

  • bcYield on 16/06/2024 - 01:45

    Download: 50 - 619Mbps
    Upload: 6 - 86Mbps

    The lower and upper are quite large in difference lol. 86MBps upload speed is tempting if reliable.

    • U30004 on 16/06/2024 - 06:35

      What you planning to upload?

      • angelkulit025 on 16/06/2024 - 12:47
        +2

        Onlyfans videos

        • U30004 on 16/06/2024 - 13:36

          Lol

        • drhip on 19/06/2024 - 15:21

          This is the only correct answer

  • LaTerrible on 16/06/2024 - 04:27

    At this price I'd ditch starlink if it were available here

  • DanielTr on 16/06/2024 - 06:32

    You can neg for 5-10$ off as loyalty bonus to keep using the service after 1st month

    • prhino on 17/06/2024 - 10:34
      +1

      I've just come to the end of my 2 years on the service and rang up to cancel, since I've 'paid off' the modem ($29 a month). They only offered me $5 off for 6 months.

  • End3vour on 16/06/2024 - 07:19

    Was in the market for 5G home internet and was very surprised to see that it wasn’t available in my area for most of the providers. I live 15 min from Sydney CBD.

    • mayo on 16/06/2024 - 07:56
      +2

      I know with Telstra they cap the number of users per area to keep speeds acceptable. I'd assume the others would do the same.

    • Funky-munky on 16/06/2024 - 09:00
      +2

      Same boat but in Melbourne! Live in St Kilda East and none of the 3 providers offer 5G home broadband.
      Stuck using Optus 4G wireless and the speeds have degraded substantially over the past 5 plus years.

  • Mr Mrrtn on 16/06/2024 - 07:20
    +2

    I get telstra 5G reception with my mobile (3 out of 4 bars) but as I put my address in, the website won't let me sign up because "it's not available at my address"

    I'm tempted to sign up using my work address in town, about 10km away, which is accepted by the website. But then I see this clause on "Geolocking" the service to one address. Does anyone know how strict the policy is and whether it's enforced much?

    • bcYield on 16/06/2024 - 11:29
      +1

      Same question

    • prhino on 16/06/2024 - 15:55

      Very strict I believe. Not that I've tested it myself.

    • Associatedcelery juice @ Telstra on 16/06/2024 - 17:31

      From the CIS:

      You may only use your modem at the premises address you provided when you took up this plan. If you move your modem outside your premises area, your download speeds will be capped at a maximum of 1.5Mbps.

  • merriweather on 16/06/2024 - 07:23

    I’ve had this a couple of months now as my only option previously was FTTN that performs worse than ADSL2. Speed’s great, connection hasn’t dropped. One morning it was maxing out at about 10mbps but I reset the modem and it jumped back to 250+. Would recommend it if you can’t get decent fibre.

  • Be Happy on 16/06/2024 - 07:54
    +1

    I can't have their connection but my next house which is a corner house can have their services….🤷‍♂️🤦🏽

  • JIMB0 on 16/06/2024 - 08:08
    +8

    The thumbnail looks very inclusive.

    • vanreek on 16/06/2024 - 08:49

      Not by Disney's standards

    • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/06/2024 - 10:02
      +2

      What do you think they're watching together on that laptop?

    • meowbert on 16/06/2024 - 11:05
      +1

      Two white men? Probably watching videos from 1950 of women in the kitchen. Where are the black trans lesbian womxyn reading to children? Literally shaking rn, off to report to the stabdards beurau.

    • MattyD on 16/06/2024 - 14:25
      +1

      If only Telstra's nbn signal was as strong as their virtue signal…

  • tessel on 16/06/2024 - 08:34

    Fark me Telstra charging $100 for 50/20 now.

    • auug on 16/06/2024 - 08:45
      +1

      Have a look at other providers like ABB or Launtel. Most of them have current deals atm.

  • mrkorrupt on 16/06/2024 - 08:51

    Is the Simcard portable? Can you use it in your phone for data?

    • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 14:09
      +1

      No

  • Irishness on 16/06/2024 - 08:51
    +1

    I'm on a 1 month $1 & unfortunately I rarely get 5G signal, just 4G & speeds are very inconsistent anywhere from 50-250 the modem router is buggy, as soon as you want to change some settings, also you are restricted to a set list of dns servers (yes there are ways around it but make running a pi-hole a pain), I will be cancelling after my first month, had high hopes for this

  • bathuu on 16/06/2024 - 08:53

    Anyway to get a non-CGNAT ip address on these fixed wireless services? That's the only thing holding me to move from my crappy 25/5 fttn service.

    • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 11:28

      All residential home 5G broadband is behind Carrier Grade NAT. You can setup Tailscale or ZeroTier as a workaround.

      Check if you can swap from nbn FTTN to FTTP here.

      • bathuu on 16/06/2024 - 18:57

        Thanks for the suggestions. Can these be set up at the router level?

    • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 14:10

      I never heard any mobile service can assign the device a fixed ip address.

      • 0jay on 16/06/2024 - 21:04

        Enterprise accounts have this feature

  • beigehornet on 16/06/2024 - 09:09
    +2

    Pass on any data capped plans.

  • discountguy on 16/06/2024 - 09:27

    I've got a Nighthawk M6 router …. do I need the router Telstra are supplying with this deal? Given that this service is supplied based on a given address if I then move what happens then?

    • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 10:43
      +1

      They have tower lock. You will get a very slow network if you move out of the tower range.

      • discountguy on 16/06/2024 - 11:34

        So I have to see if Telstra would allow the service to be moved?

        • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 13:58

          You will need to cancel your current plan and register with your new address (if your new address is eligible)

  • jimwh on 16/06/2024 - 09:50

    How big is Telstra 5g modern?Can it operate using battery? I want to use it as a mobile network and carry it to my office.
    Any issue with VPN?

    • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 11:30
      +4

      This deal is for 5G home internet. What you want is 5G mobile broadband.

      • jimwh on 16/06/2024 - 12:12

        Any options and feedbacks?

      • Fuzor on 16/06/2024 - 22:38

        Why cant you just use 5g home internet and move it to the office? Its just a sim right? You get to a weak spot in reception and it just converts you onto 4g.

  • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 10:42

    It has been several years and the only new thing is the Router2. No more free Disney plus :(

  • hongd on 16/06/2024 - 11:00
    +1

    tested my place with telstra SIM in Samsung phone. 5G download speed is fast (up to 200M) but unstable (can be lower at 60M) and upload is consistently only at 1M

    • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 11:20

      Same. But by rebooting the router it will be fast again. It happens 1-2 times a day for me which is a bit annoying.

    • pyr0 on 16/06/2024 - 11:34

      You can't compare phone performance to a proper modem. Totally different ball game.

      • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 14:03

        It completely depends on the chip it uses. The modem employs the same 5G chip found in standard phones, such as the X55, X60, or X70, which are commonly used in many smartphones.

        • 0jay on 16/06/2024 - 21:06

          Diff antenna array

          • sicaboy on 17/06/2024 - 22:16

            @0jay: That makes sense.

            • 0jay on 17/06/2024 - 23:13

              @sicaboy: your ride-on mower get the same mileage as y yaris?

              • sicaboy on 19/06/2024 - 12:42

                @0jay: Not that much difference from my experience. LOL

  • toastpaint on 16/06/2024 - 11:08
    +5

    Note that the jitter and latency are different from a fixed line service. If you have ping-concerned gamers in your house this may not be suitable.

  • sicaboy on 16/06/2024 - 11:19
    +2

    If you play games, especially those like CSGo etc, the 5G has about 50ms latency, compared to NBN which can be as good as <5ms which means you shot each other at the same time but you are defeated.

  • Dobe on 16/06/2024 - 12:05
    +2

    For 2 years I've been using Telstra's 4g as my home connection.
    NBN is not a practical option at my location, so 4g is my must have broadband.
    I'm in line of sight of their tower and truly it has been faultless the whole time, thanks Telstra.

    Cost is $69 per month,
    400gb (never exceeded),
    Latency 12-15ms,
    Download 90-250Mbps (varies time of day)
    Upload 50-65Mbps (consistent)
    using owned Huawei B818 modem

    Not yet convinced another $16 per month for 5g is going to be a valuable upgrade on my use and location.

    • jimwh on 16/06/2024 - 12:11

      It your modem portable?

      • Dobe on 16/06/2024 - 16:08

        Yes, my modem is portable, not slim but portable, requires power. The Huawei B818 houses the 4g sim card. Did use Optus before this and left because they pulled down their tower, this Telstra plan saved me from the NBN :)

        The plan was purchased as a "mobile broadband" plan.

        A smaller modem on the move could be used however I can connect this modem anywhere in Australia and it will work, i.e. 4g Sim Card is not geographically locked to my home location.

        Interesting, this 5g plan is available for my next door neighbour, but not me, go figure Telstra :)

  • dealmaker on 16/06/2024 - 12:50
    -4

    Any conclusion on whether the cancer cluster of liverpool council building was linked to the 5g installations on their roof? Wonder if need to be cautious with 5g. Also read about ionizing radiation vs non ionizing and 5g appears to be crossing the red lines of radiation levels. Not sure yet if the speed is worth the exposure.

  • Undercut 2241 on 16/06/2024 - 14:28

    Only 1 TB of data btw… this is a really important detail which should be in the description

    • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 14:36
      +1

      It's in the title. I've added it to the description.

      • Undercut 2241 on 16/06/2024 - 14:59
        +1

        my apologies I did not see that in the title

  • jimwh on 16/06/2024 - 14:36

    Can Telstra modem do parents control? Say limit the use of internet or wifi between certain time of a day?

    • mayo on 17/06/2024 - 17:55

      Yes, you are able to set a schedule per device in the modem UI.

  • slepax on 16/06/2024 - 14:46

    What happens if you reach the 1TB limit?
    - Does it get capped speeds or just no more Internet for that month?
    - Can you buy additional quota?

    • Twix on 16/06/2024 - 14:53

      Capped at 25/5 until next month.

      We'll give you a heads-up at 50%, 85%, and 100% of your super-fast data. No worries if you go over—no extra charges! Your download speed will ease to 25Mbps, and uploads to 5Mbps.

  • prhino on 16/06/2024 - 15:52

    Just finishing up my 24 months on this service, which means I've paid off the modem.

    Disappointingly the cost remains the same if I continue with the service.

    • sicaboy on 17/06/2024 - 22:18

      Reapply and sell the old modem? Does it have Telstra network lock?

      • prhino on 18/06/2024 - 10:53

        I called to cancel (the 24 months is up next week) and they offered me $5 off for 6 months. Slightly better, but not enough to get me to stay.

        Not sure if the modem is Telstra locked.

  • SimAus007 on 16/06/2024 - 15:52
    -1

    1TB limit, that isn't good value. Much rather an NBN service with lower latency and unlimited data (not shaped to 25Mbps if you hit 1TB).

  • Buyer0fBargains on 16/06/2024 - 19:28

    Anyone got a next best recommendation for those who can't take up this offer?
    Telstra says … "5G Home Internet is not available at your address
    This might be because Telstra 5G Home Internet isn’t yet in your area, or even if 5G is in your area, we can’t offer you 5G Home Internet until there is enough network capacity to offer the best 5G Home Internet experience."

    • pyr0 on 16/06/2024 - 21:09

      Keep checking daily. Spots open up

  • HarleyD on 16/06/2024 - 19:29
    +3

    Had it for 3 years now due to a really poor quality fttn service and it has been a godsend. Capped once in that time and didn't really notice, despite working from home in IT. If you're struggling with reliability issues on the NBN I'd highly recommend it. Latency/jitter is fine for things like video conferencing but probably not great if you have hard core gamers in the house.

    You will need to consider placement in your house to ensure good reception, as it's more temperamental than 4G and runs on limited frequencies compared to standard Telstra 5g services. It will fallback to 4g if required. Bear in mind this is a fixed service and won't work on towers outside of your area.

    The router is very basic from a function perspective and CGNAT only.

    That being said, I've ordered a fttp upgrade this week so will be cancelling, as fibre is just an all-round better service.

    • bathuu on 16/06/2024 - 20:37

      Can the the tesla router be used as only modem and put your own router behind it?

      • HarleyD on 16/06/2024 - 21:17

        Yeah, and that's what I do infact. No passthrough though, so you will be doing double NAT.

        • bathuu on 15/07/2024 - 20:06

          Can you share how you put in bridge mode please. I played around with settings and can't see anything says modem only or bridge mode.

  • jakeh87 on 17/06/2024 - 08:35

    Not available in my area.

    If it’s 5g, can I just use my mums address and use at my place do you think?

    • xers on 17/06/2024 - 08:39

      If you use it not at the premise you signed up for then the speed will be capped at 1.5mbps. See this comment above.

  • lonewolf on 17/06/2024 - 09:40

    Do people know if the 5G mobile network in my area is over saturated then something like this will have the same problem? I notice last year or so my 5G at home and at work, seems to not get anywhere near the speeds it once did. Sort of makes the data i have useless.

  • seek on 18/06/2024 - 12:10

    the speed is very good for our housrhold use. Thinking of changing nbn to 5G home internet.
    Question for me is how reliable is 5G home internet? shall I stick with nbn and just change service provider.

    Nbn is cross the nation, only difference between ISP is presumably customer support?

    • Ramrunner on 18/06/2024 - 14:25

      Not quite

      It also very heavily depends on the CVC. The CVC is the TOTAL bandwidth an ISP buys from NBN to share out among it's customers. Some good providers like Aussie Broadband provide graphs for each POI (point of interconnect). Here is there portal for that:

      https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/network/cvc-graphs/

      My POI is Kelmscott for example and you can see the total CVC on that POI that Aussie Broadband has EXCEEDS demand always. This means you will have NO bottlenecking effect from that interchange. Some cheaper ISPs buy less CVC and during peak periods you will then see a slow down.

      Now, that does not mean I never see a slow down. I'm unfortunate enough to be on the Pony Place NBN Fixed Wireless tower. Due to the wireless nature and sharing the bandwidth ON THAT TOWER I do sometimes see some slow downs. Hoever, it's getting more and more rare, and the speeds get faster and faster.

      Where I live I've gone from

      2400 baud modem -> 9600 -> 33,600 ->56Kbps.

      Then we got ADSL1

      Speeds of about 6Mbps with 1Mbps up advertised but was more like 4 and 0.7.

      We never got ADSL2 I was stuck with the above speed for a VERY long time until FW came along.

      Started at 25Mbps.
      Then 50Mbps
      Then 70Mbps (and frequently reading above 80!)
      NOW?

      I'm getting up to 137Mbps with an average of about 120. For $85. I find that quite acceptable. Kids watching 4K in the back room, us watching 4K in the front room, no stuttering, no blurring, really what more do I need?

      The ONLY genuine reason I'd like more speed is games updates still take quite a while. Well, any updates really. That would be the only reason for us to would want more bandwidth.

      So yeah, customers support AND CVC would be reasons to switch NBN providers.

  • peuwayaqdq on 19/06/2024 - 17:57
    +1

    Just want to share my experience. I got my modem today and set it up. It's very unstable in my place. At one point I can get 101mbps download but after few times doing speedtest, most of the time I get less than 30mbps. Upload is less than 5.

    • Ramrunner on 20/06/2024 - 07:45
      +1

      Unfortunately that is the problem with 5G depending on your area :(

      Only suggestion is trying a few different locations around the house to get the best reception otherwise if it's not satisfactory return it.

      I don't have a proper 5G signal at my house, even worse than that I often miss calls. I'm glad I have NBN as I've set my phone to call over wireless otherwise I would not be able to run my business. :(

      Thanks for sharing.

      • peuwayaqdq on 20/06/2024 - 08:41
        +1

        Yeah … I was to try out while I was waiting for my FTTP (which turned out it was all up and running 2 days before I received my Telstra modem). And I also wanted to find out if 5G gives me a viable option.

  • scanuck on 20/06/2024 - 13:24
    +2

    I have had this before - but now says not available at my address (I cancelled because the performance was trash) - so I’m glad they are with holding service instead of providing a sun standard product

    Kudos

  • twister292 on 26/06/2024 - 14:45
    +1

    We got this recently to cover for a outage in our FTTP connection at the pit. Not half bad for the price, but it's really only if you really can't get an NBN connection

    • sicaboy on 26/06/2024 - 21:12

      Tried before. Much less stable than a wired service in my area.

      • twister292 on 26/06/2024 - 22:47

        Absolutely. We only got it because our FTTP was inoperative at the pit level (us and 3 houses due to failed hardware in some pits). It took 3 weeks to fix, and we were spending too much on SIM cards (in a USB dongle plugged into our router) for very limited data. This is $1 for the first month and allowed us to at least work properly while the FTTP got fixed.

        Now our FTTP is back online, and the 250/25 (soon to be 1000/50) beats the pants off any wireless connection.

  • Herbert on 27/06/2024 - 23:59

    I would churn from Optus 5G to Telstra 5G if it were 2TB rather than 1TB.

    I checked my recent Optus 5G bills. The average is 1.8TB/Month.

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