Moving house, changing from Optus to Aussie Broadband… They seem to have an awesome reputation
Looking at their plans I started dribbling when I saw
$119 / month for the first 6 months
Typical evening speed: 600Mbps
Anyone running with this - and how do you find it, and is it really 600??
Do I need it? Not a chance. Wouldnt even need hteir 248m plan.. lol
Would I like it I'd probably build another torrent box :) :) :) :)
Moved from Optus to ABB 2 weeks ago and couldn't be happier. I'm likewise getting constant 100/40 24/7 as advertised (Near Parramatta (Western Sydney)).
Got the 1st month free, and will try apply the ongoing $20 off p/m code afterwards but honestly happy to pay the advertised price as I'm getting what I asked for.
100/40 seems perfect for 2 of us WFH and 4 people streaming at night, so really cant ask for anything more.
My Rant: Optus has honestly been a shitheap for the last few years and sends out a technician every few months who cannot get anything resolved. I never exceeded 30/10 (50/20 plan) whilst with them, and when I complained they blamed the infrastructure and said that even if you moved providers that id be limited to 30/10 as it seemed to be a capacity constraint (what a load of BS! I'm using the same NBN network now with ABB and got 100/40 instantly with no configuration changes)
They've never offered compensation for their drop-outs/ failure to meet marketed speeds and when I went in-store they pushed me into their 5G Home Broadband plans (read: more $$$ for them), and I agreed only because they had a 50mbps guarantee or contract could be cancelled.
Lo and behold, whilst that plan gave me 400/100 speeds at times, it seems that Optus has moved a large number of local customers to their 5G network and dropped their NBN allocation leading to major congestion at evening peak hour where my speeds would again drop to 30/30. Wasn't happy with that so cancelled and got a letter from Optus stating that NBN plans were going up $5 "to facilitate growing network costs on the NBN and to maintain to the excellent levels of service offered".
Cancelled the plan right after, and signed up to ABB and been happy since. I'm not returning the 5G modem provided (Nokia Fastmile - Optus RRP approx $2k, but Gumtree RRP $750-$1k) as non-return fee is $330. I'm taking it as a gift for poor service to date (family have been with Optus for approx. 15yrs) and I'll use it when I move out.
600Mbps download is Aussie BB's peak time average from 7pm to 11pm. 1000/50 is the maximum the plan goes. Does the new place have HFC or FTTP?
Does the house have HFC or FTTP?
Not certain, been googling trying to find a roll out map of the area that explains what is where but no luck so far
edit: https://www.nbnco.com.au/connect-home-or-business/check-your… for anyone else looking
Technology used in your connection
nbn™ Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) has been used in your connection to the broadband access network.
Good move! FTTP can get the 1000/50 plan. It is best effort and there will be some variation due to the router being used, if you are using Ethernet or Wi-Fi, amount of CVC and so on.
A router with a 1G WAN port alone is not enough to max out Gigabit speeds. At minimum the router CPU should be a dual core or ideally a quad core CPU. At minimum 256MB RAM or ideally 512MB or more RAM. For best Wi-Fi results use a router and devices with Wi-Fi 6. Ethernet cabling is still the best.
Will have the house cabled but I believe the house has a fair wack of cable already through it.
Router: Asus RT-AC88U - Hope its compatible.>
@pharkurnell: It is compatible and has a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU and 512MB RAM. Plugin the RT-AC88U into the NBN NTD on the wall, login to the Asus settings page, go to WAN and set the WAN connection to Auto IP. Ethernet will have no trouble saturating Gigabit. With a fast client it can do around 841Mbps with Wi-Fi 5.
Read up about Carrier Grade NAT and see if you want Aussie BB to turn it off or leave it on.
I have FTTP, almost at any time (even during peak) I get 900 Mbps+ on my 1000/50 plan. Definitely don't need it, but around one or two times a week, I will be downloading a game off Steam or some other large file and it'll be awesome to have 100GB downloaded in like 15 mins. Files that are < 1GB basically download instantaneously.
You don't realise how awesome this is until you're downloading a 500MB Nvidia driver and it takes 5s instead of over a minute on your bog-standard 100/40 connection. FWIW, you want to make sure that your in-house infrastructure can actually support these sorts of speeds. I get nowhere near 1000 Mbps on wireless (more like 200 Mbps), for instance.
It'd be good if more providers provided per day billing like Launtel so you could dial the speed up to 1000 down for one day (paying the extra) then return to a slower speed the next day.
I'm on the $119 1000/50 plan with Aussie via HFC. Best speed I've seen so far is 825Mbps sustained, I'm currently pulling 564Mbps during peak hours. It looks like they have plenty of spare CVC on my POI and automatically react quickly to provision more when it is needed.
This is a big improvement over the same plan on Superloop, where I could hit 600Mbps occasionally but evening speeds were often between 150-300Mbps as they often maxxed out their CVC according to their graphs.
I'm on ABB 1000/50 HFC in Sydney. This is my Speedtest I just ran at 7pm: https://www.speedtest.net/result/11725797807
I find them very fast at all times of day. Offpeak would probably test at about 925Mbps (vs 857 in the above, on peak)
Probably depends on location. Sydney City South gets full 100 Mbps anytime all day & night long. Never saturated so no slowdowns.
https://cvcs.aussiebroadband.com.au/citysouth.png
Check CVC graph for your local area: https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/cvc-graphs/
POI check if unsure: https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/nbn-poi/