Australia @aussie.zone cool_pebble @aussie.zone 4mo ago

NBNCo reveals plans to upgrade speed tiers

www.nbnco.com.au nbn plans to accelerate highest speed tiers | nbn

NBN Co today launched a proposal to provide five times faster download speeds on its popular nbn Home Fast product, which would see wholesale download speeds accelerate from 100/20 Mbps to 500/50 Mbps1 at no extra wholesale cost to retailers.

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Let's see what actually gets passed on by retailers though...
- Likely all of it as it is a no-cost change at the wholesale end, but of course it's an excuse to reshuffle the pricing brackets and adjust CVC to cut costs and increase profits.
  
  It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
  
  It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
  
  My understanding is that the gigabit tier is only available over FTTP... So why aren't the speeds symmetric? Practically every other country that has gigabit fibre has symmetric speeds. With more and more people storing data "in the cloud", upload speeds are more important than ever.
  
  I live in the USA now and even the lowest speed tiers with ISPs offering fibre (300Mbps in my area) are symmetric.
  
  I'm on 1000/50 and while a bump to 100 upload would be nice, they really need to bump it up more. 250 minimum. Or something like 500/500 would be nice.
- Yeah but can you imagine how much less efficient it would be without those profit driven businesses involved?
  
  /s
  
  You might be shocked to learn that NBNCo was set up and designed to be “profit driven” too then?
I can't wait to not be able to access this on my shitty fucking FTTN.
- I'll really annoy you by saying that VDSL2 (the tech you are using) supports up to around 250mbit throughput but no Aussie ISP has enabled that option. Your modem probably already supports it because its a pretty old standard.
  
  Enjoy, have a nice day.
  
  FTTN can in theory get higher speeds, but hardly anyone has a line short and high quality enough to actually achieve them so NBN Co doesn't even bother.
  
  FTTC can provide these sorts of speeds, FTTN, not so much. VDSL2 can deliver 250Mbit/s at around 200m.
Fixed wireless still capped at 75/10 and lucky to get 25/5 in peak hours... So this is just extending the digital divide they claimed would never happen
- They’re actually upgrading the Fixed Wireless network to 5G already as we speak. All customers will be upgraded to 100/20 capability and the wholesale price will match other technologies. This means those on 75/10 will receive this automatically, and for free. From mid-2024, 90% of customers will be upgraded to 200-250/20 capability, with the same wholesale price as the 100/20 offering. This aligns with the speed tier upgrades in the OP. They will also start offering a Superfast tier at 400/20-40 to 80% of customers. Part of the upgrades include ensuring peak throughput, and doubling the range of each tower to enable new connections to a bunch of satellite customers.
  
  https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/upgrades/more-fixed-wireless
That's good to hear. Now if I could only get NBN service (other than SkyMuster) at my place, that would be swell.
Yet another thing that is only available to people with FTTP / HFC. I live within a couple of kilometres of the Melbourne CBD and still am not eligible for that.
- It'll come. My neighbourhood was finally free late last year and I took up the offer. Gig speeds baby

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