Re: NBN
Reply #13 –
Guys ditch ringing telcos and go into a shop.
The service is simply better.
I agree 100%, especially if you are not up to scratch on the technical stuff.
As mentioned we obtained FTTP about 10 months ago, for most of that time it's been great.
We noticed a bit of degradation in Ping and Bandwidth around 6~8 weeks ago. It turns out as they roll out NBN locally the exchange will reach capacity before they do a backend upgrade. Basically I think they wait to see if enough people adopt the service before they spend the money on the exchange upgrade. Once the exchange upgrade went through the NBN was back to it's previous best.
With 100/40MB we now find the streaming experience is greatly improved. Individually, many downloads and uploads are not that much better than a 25/12MB connection, but the big difference on 100/40 is that when 3 or 4 people are all streaming or downloading at the same time, you don't get the stutters. I've got say it has made services like Stan and Netflix seamless.
We cop a few NBN scammers calling, they are mostly Indian callers claiming they are from NBN or Telstra and they want you to either read them numbers off the fibre modem or talk you through a swap of ports on the modem. I let them "lead me on" to see what they were up to! I think it's like the old "Your PC has a problem scam!" Getting hold of the data they are after lets them identify your physical MAC address and once they have that they can hack your connection.