Received a flyer in the mailbox this week for 5G internet. It's cheaper than our present cable broadband and is offering the same speeds.

Does that mean Australia just wasted $B's on the NBN?

If they're stuffing your mailbox with paper, maybe you should ask yourself if they really know a lot about the internet.

Flyers are cheaper than the soon to be out dated and worthless NBN

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Harrow said..
Received a flyer in the mailbox this week for 5G internet. It's cheaper than our present cable broadband and is offering the same speeds.

Does that mean Australia just wasted $B's on the NBN?

If you buy a car and it lasts 10 years, are you 'wasting' that money? (Not your Camry)

if people mention 'future proof' in my industry I think they are being ironic or are stupid.

often 3/4/5G is using nbn backhauls for connectivity, so 5G might not have been as cheap without the nbn.

in the same vein I think the Sydney desal plant was a wise move.

Aussiebroadband.com.au stuffed some paper in my letterbox, seven months ago, advertising fast, Internet. I forked out $175 for the equipment and waited four weeks for their technician to turn up to install. He promptly told me that he couldn't get any signal while standing on my roof.
Two hours later, I purchased the Starlink equipment on line which was delivered four days later and up and operating within four minutes of opening the package.

aussiebroadband.com.au have yet to reimburse me for the equipment to that I purchased.

You can stick your 5G where the sun don't shine!

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sotired said..
If you buy a car and it lasts 10 years, are you 'wasting' that money?

If somebody else buys you a car with your own money and you don't drive did they waste your money ?

I'm with you Japie I waited for a telstra ADSL connection for 6 weeks when we moved (NBN not available) and still didn't know if it was possible or not at that address, so cancelled Telstra and went with Starlink, about 5 days delivered from the US fixed the dish to the roof connected the router and turned it on. downloads at over 100 mbps consistently usually faster then that upload speed not so flash. Fixed line data transfer maybe becoming redundant particularly in the regions, where NBN not even available.

Pretty sure I have said this before but...


More than happy with the internet I had. Worked fine no issues. Never even thought about it. If I did think about it then it was with the internet provider and the cost based plan I might want.

Then NBN came along. The great NBN we had to have.
NBN did nothing hardware-wise anywhere near my house. Didn't get any new cables laid, nothing. Zip
But then not allowed to be on whatever I am on anymore, legally required to transfer to an NBN plan. No technical reason whatsoever.

But - NBN not available. Yep that's right, got to move from a service that works to a service that doesn't exist.
So, only thing they could do was put me NBN skymuster satellite. Despite having perfectly good cable to my premises and being in line of sight of the cell tower.

But now Telstra don't sell Sky Muster, as (it turns out) they won't sell such a bad service.
So got to go with some random dodgy ****er on-selling NBN plans from their shed in regional Queensland. Somebody with no experience and no business until NBN came along.
Sky Muster 1,000 times worse than anything. Drops out, limited data, limited speed, won't allow VPNs so can't work from home. Friggin' useless.
To be fair the dodgy Queensland on-seller was OK, except they just hand-ball everything to NBN. Which is kind-of OK because I can't see how they can do anything else - but technically they are the person I have a contract with so should accept more responsibility for the ****e service, even though legally and technically they can do nothing about it. Presumably the reason Telstra refuse to touch it.

So went to Starlink, despite hating Musk. Had to wait a few months for the service in this area. But - like everyone else says two minute setup, and 12 months on more than happy with the speed and volume. Its a set and forget.

Finally just about got back to where I was before NBN decided the cable to my house that that works fine isn't allowed to be used anymore for no reason anyone can explain.

I reckon I get better service hacking in to a Chinese spy balloon than through the NBN skymuster bollocks.