Recent events* have triggered my curiosity, so I would indulge any readers to post their internet connectivity. If you so desire, you may also wish to elucidate with costs.**

To wit: I have a contract for supply at speeds up to 20MBps, supplied with a land-line telephone, which includes free calls within the country. Unfortunately it also includes a limit of lust 10GB per month, but only costs A$50 per month. (Australia has had caps on data downloads for decades, unlike, say, the US, which I don't think has ever had a cap.) Most people will probably have unlimited download capacity, which is the real value added by the NBN.

Anyway, if you want to vent or brag, either about your fixed connection capacity or your mobile, I have conveniently provided a place for you, hereunder.

Ciao.


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*Others in the antipodes are acutely aware that Australia is currently building the National Broadband Network, wherein terameters of fibre-optic cable are being laid to connect the 25 million people living on the fringes of this vast continent.

Consequently, everyone will be changing their internet connectivity in this brief period (a couple of years). The project is rolling out what has been called "fibre to the node", which is distinct from the original plan to lay cable to each house ("fibre-to-the-home"), meaning that the cable terminates in the street and is connected to each dwelling via the existing telecommunications network (i.e., the copper wire that was integral to the telephone network).

Australia has a huge problem with providing basic communications to everyone at a price that anyone can afford, owing to her large distances and low (average) population density, city-slickers non obstat.

One of my requirements is a land-line telephone (something most people seem ambivalent about these days), so the packages available are less numerous.

** For the many people who signify a country other than their own, and who also wish to note their current expenses, might I suggest converting to the global reserve currency? No need for too much specificity, for example, the Australian dollar buys approximately 70 cents, and for other currencies it equates to about 60 centimes (euro) and 55 pence (sterling). (And about seven hundred New Zealand monopoly dollars —— no, only kidding, just about parity, c.$1.05.)

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25 Gb bandwidth a month

Who cares how much it cost because I'm still getting fucked. :P

10 mbit up and 500 down, i don't upload so it's not important for me. there's much faster connections available nowadays but it's a good spot between speed and cost while there's no limit at all especially with all game downloads getting larger every year.

Price is Australia in crazy though, for 50$ we can get 250 mbit without limit but ofc this country sucks in other ways.

Unfortunately, forced to use NBN and it constantly needs resetting and a good boot up the rear end. Price: $80 a month and unlimited dl's but phone is incorporated with it. Speed, no bloody idea as that don't worry me.

LTE, 150/50 in theory but with my equipment/signal/cell tower capacity it's more like 25/25. About 25 eur/month, no data caps.

I am surprised Australians haven't built a satellite/etc internet backbone or similar by now to alleviate some of that bottleneck and give people more data allotments per month.

As for the US....we only have no data limits due to more infrastructure being setup and also most major internet sites are based here so less traffic has to go across trans-oceanic cables and the like....as well as other factors.
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Why not say kilometers instead of terameters?

Also that plan is all fine and well until abbos/etc take that line to sell(if possible) or the lines get damaged through wear and tear(and acts of nature) and need a crew to go miles into the outback/etc to fix.

I think they should just embrace(good) satellite internet more( the ones who live far away from cities/etc), tbh.
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I think someone(or you) else said that won't solve the data limits on the australian internet cables(main ones under the sea)...also the data rate will likely not improve if they use the old lines to go to the node from people's homes.
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Non obstat? A bit of advice(not to be mean but just give advice): using plain english one doesn't have to look up helps a bit.
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That bit about monopoly dollars reminds me of poor Zimbabwe(or whatever that african country is where people need 100k notes to buy stuff without barrels of money).

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Nice thread, btw.

My speeds is supposed to be around 50Mb/sec DL, and unlimited data for around 30 or so a month(US dollars).

My internet is between 800 Baud a second, and 1 Terra-byte a second.

I have unlimited data at 400 Mbps. I had a Gbps but I didn't need that much bandwidth, so I down-scaled.

Luckily for me I live in an area that does not need to change to the NBN because the existing cable network is superior anyway. It also means I have to use the one supplier- iiNet (unless I choose to use the NBN). So I have Cable internet at 100MB/s connection, can't remember the upload speed- I think it's 20MB/s or 25MB/s. Unlimited data as well, plus they have an agreement with Microsoft so that all XBL stuff is unmetered anyway- So all of those 100Gig Game Pass downloads to my Xbox don't meter.

Of course the trade of is that it isn't the cheapest, A$79/month but considering the speed and reliability and no data limit I'm prepared to pay it. Oh yeah and being discreet cable to the house means I have no need for a telephone landline, so I haven't used one of those for 14 years. Not quite true, certain limited areas don't have to change over to the NBN, as they already had a fibre to the home network. Those areas got exemptions from having to go on NBN plans. I believe iiNet had to win a battle in court for this. They even send me an email every few months to make sure I know that I don't need to look for NBN plans. But yes most people do need to change to NBN plans.

Just curious, but you do know that Mbps signifies megabits per second (1 megabit = 1000 kilobits) while MBps means Megabytes per second (1 MB = 1000000 bytes).

yeah my mistake, read all that as Mb/s. Although I just checked and it isn't 100Mb/sec anymore anyway, it's actually over 200Mb/s now which explains why I always seem to get sustained downloads speeds of around 150Mb/s sometimes when I thought I only has a 100Mb/s connection.

Edit, after doing some research, I was right the first time- it is theoretically a 100MB connection, it's just it usually can only go as high as 200Mbps average during peak times, which is how it's marketed- since cable is dependent heavily on traffic load. To confirm I just ran an online connection checker a few times and it returned a result of 500 to 550 Mbps download speed from the ISP server- so in theory 100MB maximum could be correct, though will never really be seen in the real world. I've also had my PS4, Xbox and Steam all downloading games at the same time at over 100mbps each.

Ah yes, that makes sense now and those are quite respectable speeds.

100 Mbps, unlimited for around $8 a month. I could have 300 Mbps for the same price, but I've been too lazy to go and change the contract. Maybe I'll do it this year, hopefully.

750mbs down / 50mbps up. unlimited GB usage 79.99 monthly no contract. Here in Canada we have 1gb speeds but man they cost like 119 a month... brutal shit prices if you ask me. the Romanian guy that posted on top of me pays 8 dollars a month for 100mbps and can get 300 in speeds which is AMAZING btw.. I would take that any day to my package.

Turns out I was right the first time, after doing a bit more research.