Here in the outer suburbs of Adelaide SA, most get their internet via the NBN's Fixed Wireless towers.
Speeds vary a lot, depending on distance, trees and local tower congestion at peak times.
Last month, our tower got upgraded to 5G/mmWave.
Speed went from 100/8 to 350/24
I took a photo this morning using Nikon D610 + Sigma 400mm f5.6 APO lens - we are 800m away.
#australia #nbn #internet # photography
Anyone here had any experiences, for better or worse, with Leaptel?
I'm looking at options for an Internet connection at our Scout hall. I've only ever had great customer service experiences with AussieBB, but have also had Leaptel recommended.
got my internet upgraded for the same price as my current 100 down/40 up plan. It's truly abysmal how much NBN is hobbling the uplinks.
Looks like the NBN is going with Amazon satellite rather than Starlink. While it’s still owned by a tech billionaire at least he’s not a Nazi
Looks a bit like Lex Luthor though…
#nbn #australia #interner
I suspect #NBN contractors might be at work in my street [& specifically outside my house atm], finally running fibre-optic cable up my street from the node box ~700 m away. A normal peep would not speculate, but simply wander outside, say g'day, & have a look/ask. Ofc not me though; i'm quietly under my bed, trembling with all the other silverfish & cockroaches & spiders, hoping they & their noise go away soon.
D0gknows how i'm gonna manage, some other time, to actually deal with them coming into my place, inside my home, for the necessary Doings, later once my #ISP advises me that #FttP is finally available for me if i want it [which i do, just not the peeps needed to get it]. Sigh.
I hate it when my upload speed is faster than my download speed. But this is ridiculous!!! #NBN
Our FW NBN got updated last week.
We went from V3 getting 100/7.5
to 350/24 on V4/5G!
If you're semi-rural and thinking of Starlink, try FW first if it's available to you.
#nbn #Australia
https://www.speedtest.net/result/17441822831
#NBN Fixed Wireless has such consistent performance... If by consistent you mean consistently goes to shit of an evening.
For those interested: after writing the previous post I discovered that NBN had recently upgraded the fixed wireless tower nearby and it is now in range. Probably should have researched before angry ranting, but oh well.
Today the physical installation was completed, and I now have an #NBN connection with Launtel, public static IP and everything!
Looking forward to getting rid of #Starlink and saving $40/month as a bonus! I'll keep the Starlink equipment as a last-ditch backup (my primary backup connection will be a 5G connection with Telstra), but I hope to never use it again.
@Su_G @Old_IT_geek
Anyone got a cite for that?
Would seem to follow in the dog-poo tramplings of the #LNP when they fucked Australia's national broadband network.
And point at how mishandled their #NuclearFantasy would be if it began to be built.
But first a cite.
Arrrgh so hard to find a decent #NBN provider in AU that has 4G backup. iiNet have been doing my head in lately.
@ridicol Yet i remain stuck on shitty #FttN, with the node ~700m away, ergo top sync speeds of a lousy 41 / 7 MBps, which pragmatically on a good day is 37 / 6 MBps. Bloody #NBN. Bloody arseholic #madmonk & #trumble 
Oh yes... & bloody cretinous Strayans, who were moronic enough to actually vote madmonk into govt, ffs 
Hurrah!
My replacement NBN box lasted almost three weeks! No really close lightning, no blackouts. I was using it, decided to unplug. Too late, by the time I got there it was faulting. No internet. Sigh? Back to [shudder] 4G. 
Sure, the box isn't flashing red this time, but it may as well be.
Does FTTP have this problem? 
#ABCNews:
"Elon Musk's Starlink is connecting hundreds of thousands of regional Australians to the internet"
""When parts of the market become dependent on one person, and when that person is as petulant and as erratic as Elon Musk, then you're setting yourself up to fail," Professor Andrew Dodd from the Centre for Advancing Journalism, told 7.30."
6.2.2025
Yeah, well if the #NBN wasn’t so fucking hopeless in #regional areas, 200,000 of us wouldn’t be reliant on it. I’d happily use anything other than #Starlink if there was a viable alternative.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/government-not-concerned-elon-musk-starlink-australians/104905102?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
@jackscottau am curious to see what you come up with. Bootstrapping your own telco in Australia has been ... troublesome.
(Owning the property on both ends of the link was the only way, along with not even gifting it to others. Else you are a telco.)
The NBN has not been making good decisions for its customers even in only slightly rural areas.
However, now is as good a time as any other. Especially if NBN refuse to do better.
I live out in the 'middle of nowhere' (about 8km from the nearest telephone exchange, lol), and because our federal government sucks, I'm forced onto either NBN Satellite with its horrible latency, or Musk's Starlink.
Up until now I've been happy with the Starlink service, even if I've disliked its owner.
Given the events of the events of the last few weeks though, I'm now actively looking into other options. Even if I'm happy continuing to pay Starlink (which I'm not, really), I honestly think the risk of Starlink being switched off in Australia as some sort of political maneuver is non-zero at this point.
Seriously considering starting up a WISP for the valley I live in.
The TLDR: Musk is a Nazi, and I'm not happy with Starlink.
Hurrah! I have NBN again! I'm only 400m from the highway & have no 5G alternative (yet they do further out my road 
). Let me tell you, 4G really wasn't cutting it, image loading & video quality reminding me of the glory days of dial up, despite running much faster & using faster devices. Bloatware & enshittification, I guess.
As suspected, the NBN tech replaced the offending NBN box with an unfried version, a few minutes of devices shaking hands, & everything's tickety boo. 
I am happy that NBN improved my cable connection from 100Mbps down and 2Mbps up(100/2) to 100/40.
Good golly am I hanging out for an upgrade. 2025 is when HFC and FTTP get an upgrade to 500/50....or faster 
https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/media-statements/higher-speed-tiers-multi-gigabit-speeds-in-2025
#nbn #internet
