Hi Ozbargainers!
Here's a deal on 25/10 nbn® internet for you :)
nbn 25/10
Unlimited data
No lock-in contract
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‘Older ppl’
From what I can find here, it is, but happy for someone to prove me wrong!
We use DHCP/IPoE, so if your parents are churning from Telstra, Optus, ABB, etc, they won't need to change any settings :)
Great ! Do you have a link to setting up with an Optus router? I’m currently paying $90. Would love an easier service.
$90 for 25/10?!
Your Optus router will automatically switch over, no configuration required! :)
Solitary Technology's cheapest plan is their Seniors NBN Plan.(25/10) @ $69/mth
https://solitarytech.com.au/clientexec/order.php?step=1&prod…
Full range of plans is here:
https://solitarytech.com.au/clientexec/order.php?step=1&prod…
Not sure how OP comes up with the posted price (discounted offer) of $47
Its nowhere on thier very scant website
Seems the offer has EXPIRED
Also the NBN comparison list provided by ST marketing doesnt list any plan cheaper than the $69 Seniors plan
See here:
https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/ed8e0352-10c7-45e2…
Wonder if they’ll increase the price for those who signed up?
Hi @Dr Phil
This deal was only advertised on OzBargain and Whirlpool. There was/is no way to find the deal without OzBargain or Whirlpool.
That link does not show our full range of plans, as it is missing our Fixed Wireless and Sky Muster plans.
I believe that comparison list is manually added to, so it would make sense that the author did not find and add this deal :)
I think so yeah. Im paying $57 a month with Flip and ive been thru all the intro offer periods of the providers now. This appears to be the cheapest if this is the usual ongoing price and not an intro offer, yep.
Try calling Flip and asking them to match this price. It worked for me.
Agreed. If you are happy with Flip……they will price match (for 10 months) if you let them know you are about to cancel due to better pricing.
Hard to understand the person on the phone. She told me she could not price match it but gave me $47.90 for the next 10 months.
Have you all got the same ?
@London: Yes. $47.90 seems to be their standard "can do" for next 10 months (after their 6 months @ $39 ends). Saves mucking about if you are all good with Flip & current connection.
@Borg: Rang up Flip today- apparently they also allow customers to "suspend" account for max 1 month on request (useful for overseas travel).
Also note they have just introduced a referral system- need to add that on OzB!
25/10 is fine for non "oldies".
No 4k and just normal web and binge stuff. 100/20 downloads faster for sure, but not essential.
I genuinely curious about the two users that negged this comment. Why?
My household has had 25/10 for about four years with no speed issues. We currently have 100/20 on a very good deal and will probably go back to 25/10 when our deal ends, especially at this price.
We streamed and surfed all we wanted without hiccup. 25 down is plenty for this.
If 25/10 is sufficient why would you move to a higher plan? Genuinely curious.
@shutuptakemymoney101: It was a bargain price deal. The optus flybuys one. So $29/month for 3 months and up to $41.50/month if we have to wait four months to get the FB pts. A deal I couldn't pass up and cheaper than any 25 or 50 plan at the time.
The difference between bottom speeds and top speeds in cost is around $12.50 per week. It means very fast game downloads or updates, no downscaling when streaming movies and updates or downloading software is very fast. For $12.50 per week for me its not worth worrying about.
@Spendmore: Wow. $650 Extra per year is not worth worrying about… Why are you on OzB?
I'd love 1000/1000 for $40/month… Nothing I do will ever reach close to those speeds. Nothing I've done over two months can even use 100 down. Truth is, 25/10 is plenty, there is no downscaling and things are fast enough.
@BBF: My comment was 4 days ago and you just responded, no way I could live with internet that slow!
Truth be told 25/10 comfortably meets the netflix requirements of 15 mbps for a 4k stream. If you wanted to run multiple fhd streams you could do that too (5mbps required). Teams uses 1-2 mbps.
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
The uncomfortable truth is that 25/10 is more than sufficient for the vast majority of the population and standard use cases. It's still 10 gigs an hour. That said, it's heavily disincentived by the nbn pricing scheme. There are however a very small number is power users who try and assume everyone else uses bandwidth as much as they do.
I use 100/25 at home, and regularly use a 25/10 when away from home. I can't really notice much of a difference besides game patches and downloads. We even steam 4k there.
Honestly typing this up makes me really wonder why I even have a 100/25 connection.
The thing is that the NBN never really delivered on its promise of putting high-speed fibre in buildings.
It just so happened that streaming services were already looking into better compression methods to meet continuous demand while not breaking the bank on their infrastructure, and they only decided to open up in Australia once their bitrates were low enough to cope with Australia's internet backend.
After that, everyone stopped complaining about the NBN, because they finally had Netflix.
@FujinShu: Well, I would probably argue that now we do given we're transitioning away from fttn pretty rapidly. That said the higher connection speeds don't seem to be particularly worthwhile for most users, despite how much of a push there is for them.
Right now, very few users are on faster speeds despite them being available. The limitation currently is more cost than the availability. It's just hard to justify for most users. Combination of better technology lowering bitrates, and that at this time there isn't really anything that really uses that much bandwidth in common usage. I think there was the idea.
As it is, I'm a heavy user, in a wfh environment, do a lot of teams calls, watch a ton of streaming content. I've upgraded from fttc to fttp and gone from a 50/25 to 250/25 mbps plan (the fact I couldn't remember earlier was a bit of a worry) and there's no real measurable difference, leaving me wondering why I did it. Maybe with multiple family members streaming VR content one day there will be that use case.
@Ezuku: That's what I was getting at. NBN never really advanced much, but the underlying data compression systems did, so by the time the NBN rollout was complete, there was no real need to get higher download speeds when everything is just hyper-compressed to hell and back anyway.
its $39 at flip and $40 at mate.
edit: is this service only for nsw?
The question was about ongoing prices. Those would just be six months intro prices, right?
yeah, flip is 4months, and mate is 6 months
This deal is available nationwide, anywhere nbn® is available.
Yes, we shape the nbn 1000/50 AVC to 500/50.
Clientexec is an interesting choice, yes. We are moving to Splynx later this year.
PoI aggregation is through Superloop, and transit is with NextHop and Virtutel.
We are waiting on APNIC to approve our application for ASN + IP space :)
No worries :) I'll have a chat with the others and see what they think about putting that info on our website.
Superloop's 25/10 plan is $69/month ongoing, so there is quite the difference in my opinion.
@SpeedAU: I'm guessing if you're very sensitive about buffering, you'll probably avoid a 25 down plan.
People are more technical than you think.
They are absolutely not.
And what's more, nobody who is into the tech, is going to be using a 25Mb plan.
@Nom: I'm 100% Tech, have lots of VMs, Home Automation, work from home doing IT Support so do a lot of remote access etc and……25/10 is fine for everything including streaming (2pax…..non 4k, nor a gamer). Have been on 25/10 for 2+ years now, never an issue. :-)
@Borg: This is very interesting
Also automated home, and CCTV cameras etc, although non gamer
Don't really watch Netflix etc, max I can get at my place is 50/20 and anyway, during peak times, it slows down considerably, FTTN, with many houses drawing off it and slow speed, particularly in evening, so probably slows down to 25/10 anyway
@Spending2Much: I have same use case as borg and am on same speed, it’s honestly fine. Rather the extra $$$
OP, where are your POPs?
Only in Sydney at this stage. SY3.
At this stage, so how long until you have POPs in other states, what is next and when?
Nothing solid as of yet.
Correct, we use Superloop's national aggregation, to the PoP in SY3
What is your problem?? If it's not for you, it's not for you, don't need to post childish/passive aggressive responses to every comment on the deal - some people need the internet the cheapest way they can, not everybody has the luxury of paying more to get better transit times or more POPs
@SpeedAU: My Dad has his Fetch TV box tv guide update during night-time/early morning hours, has a VoIP phone for his infrequent phone calls and watches the odd show on YouTube on his 1080p TV - besides email he has very little other need for internet.
I pay for his current connection, please tell me why I now need to pay $10 more?
You may want to run your website through Australian spell check, not American.
Examples?
Hey mate - Would you mind sending me a private message (or posting it here) with the errors that need to be fixed up?
You mention call centers multiple times. Personalized. No doubt there are others but I stopped looking.
Thanks mate. I’ll have it looked at tomorrow morning
Does it matter? The web is Trlingual Engrish by now.
It can make a company look like a scam.
Seriously?
Probably good enough speed for 90% of people.
No one's going to notice or care about latency for Netflix though. More relevant for gaming, but most game servers are in Sydney anyway.
I doubt it. Plex struggles to stream when I was using tiktok at the same time - good luck streaming netflix above 720p. this speed should be banished to the dark ages where it belongs. It meets the definition of torture so it's a war crime to have this speed in 2025
I'm on 25/10 and I have no problems streaming 1080p on Netflix.
it couldn't handle plex, sonos surround system and tiktok at the same time. that is not an outrageous data hungry combo
@bigpoppa: I'd be blaming the trash Plex server before blaming the 25Mbps NBN connection… Either that or you were trying to stream a 4k remux over a 25mpbs connection…Which is never going to work.
I agree, I would go mad on 25/10, but a heap of people do just fine on 25/10. Netflix and most other streaming sites have very good compression, so even 4K is technically possible on 25/10. Not that I’m recommending 25/10 for 4K streaming!
I recently downgraded from 50/20 to 25/10 to save money, I work from home as a software dev. I hardly had to wait for any downloads, though I don’t play games. What sort of situations would frustrate you?
Tiktok lol. Never used it once. Is that even still around, with the bans and whatnot.
I live in a free world, not in some undevolped nazi united shitstain on america
Absolute rubbish, this is a classic case of wants over needs. I have been using Felix 20Mbps for 3plus years now as a home internet option and I would hardly call it a slow speed.
Netflix has no dramas streaming at 4k (Obviously it's compressed) and multiple mobiles/devices connected simultaneously.
at what point would a want become a need? if 2025-world speed is a want and not a need, then all you ever need is dial up, anything more than 24kbps is a want…
@bigpoppa: For the fact of the matter, dial up can't stream SD content. As far as advancement goes I can't see the transition to 8k be as quick as say DVD to 1080p was.
We are in a time were technology advancement from a consumer use isn't seeing the growth it has in former years. Mobile phones are a great example.
It's all about software (AI) now
For the fact of the matter, dial up can't stream SD content.
I thought we were talking about needs not wants. dial up can absolutely fetch your email and maybe even chat messages to keep you reachable ie the need part of need/want.
Lets say oh idk i'm a uni student doing my research or even just an honours, 25mbps would cause more delays than its worth. might have been a great speed 15 years ago in 2010 when videos on your phone were 10mb. it's 2025 a 10min video of my cat is 1GB… your want is quite a lots needs.
Mobile phones are a great example.
yeah they are. an app costs 500Mb and a software update costs 6Gb…
25Mbps belongs in the dark ages not in 2015 let alone 2025
90%? 🤣
Seems like a good deal for my parents. Is this the cheapest ongoing plan? Old people don’t like churning. Thanks for sharing.