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Another day, another 5m outage π€¬
Another day, another 5m outage π€¬
I saw you bounce. I donβt know if we talked about this before, but what are you options, should issues with your ISP continue? Are you locked in to your current, or are there other (preferably better) options?
@fastidious My options are limited:
- Continue fighting with NBN Co
- Upgrade to NBN Enterprise Ethernet
- Switch to FTTP (_Fibre to the Premise_) at NBN's (_questionablly lega_) "rip-off" price of $13,500 AUD
- Sell my home and relocate to somewhere better
@fastidious My options are limited:
- Continue fighting with NBN Co
- Upgrade to NBN Enterprise Ethernet
- Switch to FTTP (_Fibre to the Premise_) at NBN's (_questionablly lega_) "rip-off" price of $13,500 AUD
- Sell my home and relocate to somewhere better
@prologic yeah, none of those are truly acceptable options. It reminds me when I used to be locked in with a monopoly provider. It truly sucked, for a long time. Now we have, easily, over a handful of options.
@fastidious NBN Co **is** a monopoly Government-provided (_tax payer funded_) provider! π So yeah you are right, we have very few options here in Australia. Telstra (_what used to also be owned by the government before they sold it off and it became a private company and monoply_) **own** all theinfrastructure, pits and conduits all over the country (_effectively_) π€¦ββοΈ
@fastidious NBN Co **is** a monopoly Government-provided (_tax payer funded_) provider! π So yeah you are right, we have very few options here in Australia. Telstra (_what used to also be owned by the government before they sold it off and it became a private company and monoply_) **own** all theinfrastructure, pits and conduits all over the country (_effectively_) π€¦ββοΈ
@prologic That truly sucks. I barely even get 5 min outages on my makeshift LTE wireless setup (not counting solar related outages), but I could excuse it if it did. The internet at your premises, it kinda beggars belief.
@eldersnake Are you telling me you get a more reliable Internet connection with fewer outages than fixed wired connectivity?! π³ And a DIY job?! π€
@eldersnake Are you telling me you get a more reliable Internet connection with fewer outages than fixed wired connectivity?! π³ And a DIY job?! π€
@prologic In terms of pure outages on the ISP side I think so, yeah. Granted I don't run an entire home infra like you do and I don't monitor it as heavily, but it's a pretty reliable connection day and night. Being wireless and on a mountain where the ISP doesn't even recognise proper coverage (for standard pocket devices, my Yagi antennas no doubt helps with the coverage) there can be instances of momentary packet loss I think, but that's about it.
@eldersnake Wow! π³ That's amazing mate π
See I can deal with occasionally packet loss but not ~5min long outages every ~5days !!! π€¦ββοΈπ€¬
@eldersnake Wow! π³ That's amazing mate π
See I can deal with occasionally packet loss but not ~5min long outages every ~5days !!! π€¦ββοΈπ€¬
Just read that AT&T here is coming with Fibre 2 GIG: $110/month + taxes and Fibre 5 GIG: $180/month + taxes. If you want to read more, and salivate, more information at their site.
@fastidious OMFG!!! π± I hate you so much! π (_kidding_) Fuck'n hell that's insanely cheap! π€¦ββοΈ
@fastidious OMFG!!! π± I hate you so much! π (_kidding_) Fuck'n hell that's insanely cheap! π€¦ββοΈ
Meanwhile, we're barely achieving 20mbps in my neighbourhood and that's the fastest I've ever seen on a residential connection π
Kinda blows my mind how cheap those speeds are in comparison.
I get 80/80Mbps on a good day. I have FTTH which is nice. But on average I get between 40-60. I pay $110 a month for that... π€£π€¦
@ullarah Who's that with mate? π€ And that's provided by NBN's Infrastructure? π€
@ullarah Who's that with mate? π€ And that's provided by NBN's Infrastructure? π€
@ullarah Wow! I'm only on FTTN and have 3km of copper to my house π
@prologic Yeah good ol' Optus. I want to switch to Aussie Broadband though only because they offer static IPs haha!
Wow. I'm paying about 100 USD for my cable internet. Hard to estimate since its part of a tvd bundle. But it is 1.2Gbit down and 40Mbit up. And speed tests at that on the regular. The new house will have FTTH gigabit for 80ish.
Do they have Starlink beta down there yet?
Wow. I'm paying about 100 USD for my cable internet. Hard to estimate since its part of a tvd bundle. But it is 1.2Gbit down and 40Mbit up. And speed tests at that on the regular. The new house will have FTTH gigabit for 80ish.
Do they have Starlink beta down there yet?
@xuu Not sure if Starlink satellites are in orbit around/over Australia yet, but I wouldn't go with that option anyway due to the latency alone.
@xuu Not sure if Starlink satellites are in orbit around/over Australia yet, but I wouldn't go with that option anyway due to the latency alone.
@prologic
> Not sure if Starlink satellites are in orbit around/over Australia yet, but I wouldnβt go with that option anyway due to the latency alone.
I believe it is being trialled in some places in Aus already. I will admit, I've been signed up for the beta for a while and it's _supposed_ to be coming to my area sometime in 2022, though that may be delayed due to the chip shortage stuff.
I think the latency is supposed to be 45-60ms on average, which while not as good as fixed line obviously, is leagues better than old fashioned high orbit satellite broadband which is about 600~ms.
Latency to the sat and back to a uplink station is actually ~45ms because the orbit is so much closer to the ground than say a Hughesnet.
Latency to the sat and back to a uplink station is actually ~45ms because the orbit is so much closer to the ground than say a Hughesnet.
Agreed the technology is much improved compared to the old high orbit sats π
Agreed the technology is much improved compared to the old high orbit sats π
Starlink is a viable choice in WA if you're on FTTN. I currently get 54ms-80ms so 45ms-60ms is an improvement π
@prologic this is good latency for Perth. I used to be on 60-80ms.
