Any Benefits in Getting on a Higher Speed Internet Plan?

browser on 15/04/2025 - 15:02
Last edited 15/04/2025 - 16:43 by 1 other user

We are currently on a 100Mbps FTTP plan, it's sufficient but I wonder if moving up to a higher speed plan will see any more improvements?

Streaming is fine but sometimes I wish websites can load faster, like when we upgraded from 50Mbps FTTC the improvement was significant.

Obviously it will depend on individual web sites, sometimes they can't respond any faster.

I understand higher speed plans are more for large households, to have enough bandwidth to ensure streamers and gamers are not chocking each other. But not too sure if small households can benefit from higher speed plans, such as 250Mbps and above.

Internet Broadband nbn

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  • boomramada on 15/04/2025 - 15:05
    +1

    We are currently on a 100Mbps FTTP plan, it's sufficient but I wonder if moving up to a higher speed plan will see any more improvements?

    Why not switch it and switch it back?

  • skid on 15/04/2025 - 15:05
    +8

    NBN are supposedly going to upgrade 100Mbps plans to 500Mbps in September for free. May as well wait until then and see.

  • freefall101 on 15/04/2025 - 15:19
    +1

    Likely a faster connection won't help with websites loading, it's usually page rendering and loading all kinds of garbage that result in slow loading pages, or way too many requests back and forth from the server (so ping time matters more than speed). Try opening this page to see how fast a page could load. However if you think it's going really slow when it shouldn't, look at how much usage is going on on your router or trying speedtest during times it seems particularly slow.

    I have a faster plan, primarily because I have a lot of data syncing going on, particularly via work. That makes a huge difference for me, if I try jump on a teams call while a file is syncing from my network for example.

  • AustriaBargain on 15/04/2025 - 15:59
    +1

    Once you are used to gigabit you'll miss it. So many things download full speed, and there's so much bandwidth that someone could be downloading at close to gigabit and you'll still stream multiple 4K movies just fine.

  • JimmyF on 15/04/2025 - 19:19
    +1

    We are currently on a 100Mbps FTTP plan, it's sufficient but I wonder if moving up to a higher speed plan will see any more improvements?

    Bump your speed up for a month and see! You can always downgrade.

  • paul02 on 16/04/2025 - 07:29

    Depends on how much you are paying, you could jump onto Buddy 1 Gig plan for $99 mth.

  • Ozbar Gain on 16/04/2025 - 08:05

    For browsing, getting faster internet wouldn't make much of a difference. There are other factors though.

    Latency is on (how long a request takes to reach the server, or a response to come back to your PC ). This can be affected by various factors, some might be in your control and some not. Things like your connection to your router (slow wifi, slow router or access point), the network infrastructure from your house to the nbn, your nbn provider's handling of international traffic, whether you're using a VPN and so on, the nature of the websites you access, etc.

    Another thing you could look at is installing an ad blocker in your browser that stops ads and trackers loading with websites. See I lock Origin

    But ultimately your current internet connection shouldn't be slow to load pages so it's worth investigating why that is.

  • jv on 16/04/2025 - 09:51

    Any Benefits in Getting on a Higher Speed Internet Plan?

    It's faster.

  • cerealJay on 16/04/2025 - 18:52

    I wish websites can load faster

    What websites aren't loading faster?

    Most websites load quickly unless there's bottlenecks or problems on the website end. Not paying enough for a good web server is often the cause. The worst I've seen lately is Teds Cameras (teds.com.au), I think they had technical issues the other day, particularly their site search… which is still a bit slow when I tried just now. It's 100% their end.

  • daemon on 18/04/2025 - 18:00

    https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/blog/high-speed-upgrades-…

    great to see providers releasing info about the free September upgrade!

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