Choosing an NBN Provider with a Plan Suitable for Running My Own Servers

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  JimmyF on 06/05/2019 - 14:33

  +6

  not keen on paying $100+/month

  no plans in this price range with your wishlist exist then

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    No Username on 06/05/2019 - 16:22

    I think Tangerine currently has a 100/100 plan for $80 a month then $90 after 6 months.
    The plan is unlimited usage as well as unlimited calling
    Free Static IP
    BYOD Router no VLAN Settings needed
    No Set Up Fee
    No Contract

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    peteru on 06/05/2019 - 20:59

    OK, so if the budget was going to be moderately increased, what would be the options?

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  [Deactivated] on 06/05/2019 - 15:48

  +1

  What do the servers do? If it is anything important then home NBN is not what you want.

  I.e We had a line fault last week. Earliest appointment to get an NBN engineer out was 3 days away. Have also had 2 scheduled 7 hour (NBN) overnight outages in the past 2 months. Not an issue for me, but if you’re hosting something then it could be.

  I would recommend Aussie Broadband for their technical support staff, far far more knowledgeable that your average ISP call center but for max upload with a static IP on no contract you are going to have to pay over $100 a month

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  No Username on 06/05/2019 - 16:15

  If by server you mean NAS and Plex. 50/50 should do unless you are doing lots of cloud transfer/backup.

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  peteru on 06/05/2019 - 21:37

  Servers include, but are not limited to:

  • SMTP, with a secondary MX at my hosting provider
  • HTTP/HTTPS for private use (public content is at my hosting provider)
  • ssh / rsync
  • IMAPS
  • SFTP
  • IRC

  My work requires me to upload anywhere from 2 to 4 GB a day, which keeps the ADSL2+ pretty busy. In the longer run, that amount is likely to increase to tens of GB of generated data every day.

  I can deal with the occasional outage that is measured in minutes or maybe a few hours. Days would be an issue that would need some attention. Does NBN generally suffer from uptimes/reliability worse than ADSL2+. My ADSL2+ connection has had a 2 day outage and a 9 day outage in the last ten years. On top of that, there were maybe a dozen outages that lasted a couple of hours. Otherwise the uptimes tend to range between a few weeks to many hundreds of days and when the line drops, it reconnects within minutes. Is HFC NBN worse | much worse than that?

  Thanks for the pointer to Tangerine. I can't find any plans that would be 100/100 or 50/50. The best I can see is 100/40, which may be an NBN limitation.

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    JimmyF on 07/05/2019 - 10:04

    I can deal with the occasional outage that is measured in minutes or maybe a few hours

    Then you need to look at a business level plan with service level agreements

    But then again, this

    not keen on paying $100+/month

    is going to be a problem.

    Is HFC NBN worse | much worse than that?

    HFC is equal to better. My cable has been very good, a handful of outages in the last decade, nothing lasting more than a few hours at most.

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      peteru on 09/05/2019 - 02:38

      Appreciate your input on this. If the budgetary constraint was relaxed, what are my options?

      Getting detailed info on domestic plans is tricky enough, but as far as business plans go, it seems to be a uniform case of "you give us your details and our sales people will call you." Errrm, that kind of approach doesn't really work for me. For starters, I don't have the spare cycles during 9-5 to listen to a sales pitch. Sales droids don't seem to work at 1 or 2 am when I do have the time for them.

      If the business plans do have significant benefits, they may be worth some extra $s.