Anyone keen for nbn FTTP 2000/500?
To compare:
$220/month @ Aussie BB.
$215/month for 12 months and $225/month ongoing @ Leaptel.
About $240/month @ Launtel.
Notes
1. Contact Aussie BB if you want the nbn FTTP 4-port NTD instead of the nbn FTTP 1-port NTD.
2. Buy a compatible router with 2.5GbE RJ45 WAN and 2.5GbE RJ45 LAN ports and check that your computer has a 2.5GbE RJ45 port.
$50 each for referrer & referee apply afterwards.
Who remembers 1200 baud acoustic coupler and $US30/hr Compuserve in the early 90's?
We've come a long way
Just curious, what do people actually use 1000/2000 Mbps internet speeds for? I'm on 50 and it suits all my needs…
linux isos
How often would one download that?
Whoosh!
Whenever Netflix releases a new series
Nope - it doesn't matter whether your Linux ISOs download over night, or in 30 minutes.
That's one use case that doesn't need large bandwidth - the latest additions will still be available when you get home from work tomorrow evening.
IYes, it might suit 1 person, although I don't know why 2Gb, 1 Gb is needed if you have more than 4 ppl
I find it really useful for work, because everything syncs to my laptop. It means I can work on large files and never see a slowdown (at least not related to getting it from the cloud). Also just a convenience. With xbox gamepass I can just decide to try out a game without a 20GB install taking an hour to download.
Superloop just upgraded for free the upload speeds to 100Mbps(from 50), on their 1000Mbps plan.
Multiple streaming devices, kids are often on Youtube, online games, facetime with family, iCloud storage, shared albums, After Hours WFH and about 46 IOT devices connected. If we were on a 50down plan it wouldn't suit all our needs :(
Feedback from family on the first day we went on a 1000 plan: Youtube spinning circle(video loading) has disappeared :)
It depends on your specific use case. My old man, who is retired, often asks what the point of speeds faster than 50/20. His use case scenario is to load some news web sites, view Facebook, open Outlook, and so on. They do some media streaming, etc. So I can understand, why does somebody who is not a heavy use require more than 50/20? They do not.
Now compare that to my use case scenario. I have gaming as a hobby, and these things can be huge to download. 10's of gigabytes in size. Games like Microsoft Flight Simulator have massive download requirements. Add to that my kids enjoy gaming on PC and console as well. So you throw it all together.
Gaming PC
Simulator rig
Kids gaming PC's
Consoles (Xbox, Switches, etc.)
Then throw that in with the rest of your regular use case scenarios for a modern family.
School laptops
Work laptops
Personal laptops
Streaming media devices (Android TV, Shield TV, etc.) consume media services such as Netflix, YouTube, Prime, Apple TV, Plex and so on
Android tablets and iPads
Mobile phones
Smart home devices
Real time communications (Teams and other video call type services)
NAS devices sharing out personal cloud with remote site backups
Then throw in my wife's photography and videography, pulling down content for editing, it can be in the hundreds of gigabytes at times. The real pain point isn't even the download speeds….its the UPLOAD speeds. Would be nice to see symmetrical multi-gigabit speed plans.
In my extended family I run our family private cloud which includes things like a central private cloud service that everyone uses. On top of that a central plex service with all sorts of media like home videos, so many home videos :|
So you could have a very different use case scenario to say your neighbour or me. It doesn't mean you use these speeds all the time to their max. But when you don't have it and everything is saturated you're often screwed and everyone has a bad experience.
If you don't know what people use higher speeds for you don't have a grasp of the various tools of the computer e.g games, Linux isos (media versions). I'm not waiting an hour to download a game when I can do it in 5 minutes
If you're downloading a game that you plan on having on your system for weeks or months, then the initial download time is largely irrelevant. Why do you need to have the game ready to go 5 minutes after you start the download? Why can't you start the download before you go to sleep, or before you go out to work, or whatever.
Why can't you start the download before you go to sleep, or before you go out to work, or whatever.
Because computers should be set to go to sleep when you're not using them. Why sit there burning power 24/7? Why even bother going to 50/20….why not 25/5….for that matter….why not 10/1. Just leave your PC running for a few days. Better still, lets revert back to punch cards, people need to be more patient!
@Tardvark: PCs use very little power when idle. And that's a good question, why not 25 Mbps? For mine or most people's needs that's probably sufficient. Also, there's no such thing as 25/5 - it's 25/10.
@Tardvark: While I agree with you, the power you save downloading something even 1000x faster is still peanuts compared to the increased cost of the plan lol
Mainly for sailing, these days 500 knots can be too slow, 4K n 8K fish can be quite heavy.
Wtf, who is downloading 8K videos? What content is available in 8K? And on what planet is 500 Mbps (223 GB per hour) too slow to download even 4K movies? I could download like 10-20 4K movies in an hour at that speed. 2000 Mbps is a joke as most hard drives can't even sustain that speed (all downloads on my PC are initially set to save to the HDD instead of the SSD, to save space).
not sure if you are trolling me, but 500Mpbs is about 62MB/s
@MrZ: and sdd these days can 7000MB/s considered mid range right, and movies 60GB is low end right? if you going to buy a 75in tv and watch 1080 ? i dont know.. everyone different
@huu: I said that hard drives can't sustain that speed. Most people with large collections of movies/TV shows would be downloading them to a hard drive, not a SSD. As for movie size, most 4K movies on the pirate sites range from 15-20GB in size.
If they had more of those space or nature planet documentaries or just video slideshows in 8k with some nice chill peaceful music I would download and watch those for hours when I just want to sleep or chill out and relax after a long days work or just when I'm tired which is always these days haha.
But yeah some stuff like sci fi and landscape photography or drone videos are beautiful in 8k if you have the right setup aka tv and graphics card hardware to watch it etc.
Was downloading wallpapers yesterday to chuck on the windows personalise background slideshow and the difference in quality from 4k to 8k was noticeable and pretty nice much more detail crammed into all those pixels even when you have to size it down to fit a 4k monitor.
Honestly want to find even more higher resolution stuff like 16k and higher just to have it playing on my monitors to look at.
Lol wut pricing ?! Isn't this meant to be ozBARGAIN
No different to someone posting a $80,000 car.
1000/400 was $429/month in 2020.
By that logic I should wait for the bargain in 2030 then right, as it'll be $100 then.
Inflationary bargains!
$220 a month is crazy. I remember when Bigpond Cable first came out in 1997 it was $65 a month and almost nobody signed up as it was considered super expensive.
and I change back to dial up cos they changed from unlimited download to limited.
how can I get this if I have hfc
You can't get 2000/500 unless you pay about $15,000 to $20,000 for nbn HFC to FTTP.
You can get nbn HFC 2000/100.
HFC 2000/100 $189/month @ Aussie BB.
HFC 2000/100 $155/month for 12 months ($165/month ongoing) @ Leaptel.
I'll wait for ABB to offer an upgrade discount for 3-6 months (probably a Black Friday offering), then upgrade to 2000/500 to get the new NTD, and at the end of the term downgrade back to the 1000/400 which for $150/month I consider to be quite reasonable. The 400mb upload is chefs kiss.
Are those the kisses you give to your o.f. viewers?
This is what should be $99 a month
Please suggest a router that allows me to use 2000mb
Thanks for the quick reply :)
Asus has the RT-BE86U. No deals for it right now but sometimes it's $400 @ Amazon AU.
eero 7 Pro is good if you are not going to tinker @ Aussie BB.
GL.iNet Flint 2 or Flint 3 is good value.
Ubiquiti Dream Router 7 or Express 7.
Ubiquiti’s Cloud Gateway Ultra is a good option, and you could connect your current ASUS as an access point before upgrading in the future
Any old pc/laptop running pfSense
Stuck on HFC… Gg
nbn HFC gets 2000Mbps however the upload remains at 100Mbps.
1000/100.
2000/100.
For RAM drivers because BIGGER is always better!