Technology & Social Media Internet Service Providers - who to go to???

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  1. DaveM

    DaveM Well-Known Member

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    TPG's aquisition of both Pipe and AAPT's carrier network closed the network gap and these days their network is just as robust as the other telcos.
     
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    I wish I could replace my adsl with 4G permanently at home. My phone runs at 140Mbps download and 50Mbps upload.
     
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    Such a first world problem - being rural we had a choice of (wait for it) a total of three providers only ... so we went with the only one who would provide an "unlimited" service
     
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    As a general rule - the order in terms of best to worst is roughly: (This is a moving target)

    1. NBN Fibre / Cable
    2. NBN VDSLx / Telstra Cable / Optus Cable
    3. ADSL2

    If you have NBN available to you then it is your only option. I would definitely choose cable over ADSL in Sydney. I have lived in two locations in Sydney where the ADSL connection dropped when raining - neither fixable after considerable effort.

    Telstra cable also comes with Telstra Air which is useful in some other countries and a remarkably large number of Cafe's.
     
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    Stuck with Fuzenet (preeviously E-Wire) as they laid the cable in our area...would love to be back with Internode, sadly can't be done :(
     
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  7. Scott No Mates

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    I don't quite know what to make of that.
     
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  8. DaveM

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    Well you could make a hat... or a brooch.. or a pterodactyl..
     
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    Robust is good. How well provisioned is it though? Does the network slow to a crawl come 4pm when all the kids come home from school?
     
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    These days its typically a congested RIM or exchange backhaul from Telstra thats the cause of slowdowns... which affects all ISP's. Where the service is provisioned onto the providers own dslams or a non congested exchange there is no slowdown.

    Their aquisition of Pipe Networks was to get them a national fibre network to overcome previous challenges with bandwidth.
     
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  11. Property Twins

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    getting a bit technical :eek:
     
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    upload_2016-2-1_9-34-1.jpeg
    :)
     
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    Fibre to the cup?[/QUOTE]

    Soon to be downgraded to polypropylene fibre or string.
     
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    How about try them and see how it goes? You can change if they're not good :D
     
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    If you live in a house I'd go with cable. Telstra is expensive, but if your area has Optus cable then you can get a nice plan for about $80-85 with good customer support

    Check Optus cable availability here.
    Broadband Plans | NBN, ADSL, Cable - Optus

    $70 for ADSL is a little bit steep. I'd try TPG. Check out their coverage maps to get an idea of the speed performance for other properties near you.

    https://www.tpg.com.au/maps/

    Purely from a performance perspective NBN -> Cable -> ADSL, but personally i'm happy to wait a couple of years for NBN plans to be a bit more competitive.
     
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    Soon to be downgraded to polypropylene fibre or string.[/QUOTE]
    papyrus to the node?
     
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  18. Property Twins

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    Thanks All

    @Befuddled - thank you for the details :)! I will get in touch with Optus to see what they can offer. Certainly better to get Cable at the prices on offer for ADSL
     
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  19. geoffw

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    I actually was quite happy with Dodo.

    I had an issue initially with my connection. It took a while to work out- when a phone was plugged in at one outlet, with the filter, it killed the internet connection. But their tech support spent a lot of time with me to correct the issue and to ensure that it was working. It's been fine in the six months since.

    I was previously with Optus- although their tech support was good when it was needed, they didn't offer ADLS2 to my place- and it took 18 months for me to find out that other providers did offer it.
     
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  20. GreatPig

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    We have Optus NBN (FTTP) on the unlimited 100/40 plan. Most of the time I can get close to those speeds (as measured by speedtest.net), but during the evening peak the download speed can fall back to only a few megs. Good enough for us though.

    GP
     
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