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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by joshschreuder on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:55PM (#31139902)
It’s much, much better than it used to be at least (depending on where you live + NBN technology choice of course). And yet still completely hamstrung by the mess the current government made of the original NBN plan.

If you live in an area that can get HFC, FTTP, FTTN etc. it’s possible these days to get a pretty consistent 1000/50 for $150/month. Those fibre services are pretty stable in my experience, definitely a million times better than the old broadband which as you put got destroyed by bad weather and distance from the exchange.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by evanjonr on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:14PM (#31139999)
Did you mean FTTC instead of FTTN? FTTN can rarely get close to the max of 100/40 in best case scenarios.
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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by joshschreuder on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:40AM (#31163987)
I did indeed, thanks. Too many acronyms!
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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by FridgeSeal on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:29PM (#31140096)
The area of Sydney I live in has HFC-based NBN offered only, and it still falls over if it rains too much.

Apparently you can pay money to have fibre routed to your house from the nearest node/etc, but I rent, so I’m not going to do that.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by joshschreuder on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:50AM (#31164030)
You can but it's EXPENSIVE. Something like $5k-20k depending on residence and technology choice you have.
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