I'm an Aussie living in an a remote area of the Philippines, been here for 3 years. My internet connection is faster, cheaper and more reliable than I ever had in Australia on the NBN (Cairns specifically). It's fibre to the home, rather than to the node which is the vast majority of NBN connnections. People will say that "it's because Australia is so big!". Well, the Phillippines consists of over 7,500 mainly mountainous islands so the challenges for providers are even greater than in Australia. The connection is 200mbs up and down with included pay TV service and testing it over time, I consistentaly get those speeds even during peak periods. All for about $50AUD a month.
The two lads are brothers - Lachlan and Jaxon Fairbairn. They're farm boys originally, and started these skits when they were in their teens. I find them hit and miss, but my personal favourite was one where Lachlan made a Powerpoint presentation on 'Otters'... and poor Jaxon had no idea what he was presenting. So funny.
Here in WA - despite having NBN, we didn't get fibre to home, and so our internet often cuts out at random times, or is slow as shit. Often I give up and just use my mobile as a hotspot because it's faster and more stable. Our internet often acts up whenever it rains.
When my son was living in Thailand, pre-NBN days, he would download whole series of programs I wanted to see on a USB device super-quuckly and post it to me in Australia as it was too slow and painful for me to do one episode overnight each night. 😅 Now I have unlimited wifi but still get dropouts and my upload speed is laughable.
Internet reception in remote rural areas is atrocious usually. In cities, it's not the internet that's the problem but NBN is the problem. It was supposed to be fast but a new PM (Tony Abbott) hobbled it and made it extremely inefficient. I live in Melbourne suburbs, have 5G internet and consistently get great high speed access. My Speedtest results from this morning: Ping = 12ms Download = 395.24Mbps Upload = 76.25Mbps DL is never lower than 250Mbps so I'm very happy. My cousin on a remote cattle station in western Queensland has installed Elon Musk's Starlink and it's fabulous. It costs a bit more but is tax deductible for the cattle station. These guys in the video need Starlink.
Historically our internet was poor due to the vast distances between the phone exchange and home. As a country we relied on ADSL, with the cable provider being quite expensive. ADSL speeds drop significantly at 4km and are unusable from 6-7km. This affected suburbs not just rural areas. In the late 2010s the govt started replacing the copper phone network with fiber, and the internet problems have all but disappeared.
Hey MSTV bit of a random comment here but you oughta react to Review with Myles Barlow. Its really quite humorous. I'd be very surprised if you didn't get a laugh out of it. And yes. Aussie internet does indeed suck. I use Starlink though so.
When I first went online it was with dial up internet on a Windows 98se computer , Pentium 1 or 2 I forget . Loading a 1 mb photo could take 5 minutes , dial up required a landline which was about $30 a month and the ISP charge was similar PLUS every connection to the internet was a local call charge of 30 cents or so . Very happy those days are long gone 🤓
We can all thank the bloody LNP conservative government who when elected back in 2013 ditched Labors fibre to the premises and introduced fibre to the node crap. Essentially to save time and money. Unfortunately Abbott's cut down NBN was far inferior, costs were heaps higher and it took years later to implement. The new Labor Govt is trying to increase the amount of fibre connections, but it is way more expensive and complicated to ditch the bloody node idea. Instead of having fast and reliable internet we are stuck with the cluster fuk.
Just depends where you are. Some areas got great some got bad. The government during the nbn roll-out changed and the right wing stuffed it to protect Rupert Murdoch and his media interests. Im in a small country town in Victoria, i have 6 people in the house and most of us are usually double screening, be it gaming or streaming stuff. Only one tv is plugged in to the aerial. We never get any lagging .
I believe UK fits into Qld alone 8 or 9 times and our population is small you may have faster internet but then when you live in your pokey little houses in the cold all the time you need more internet I have lived there over 20 yrs but Australia 55yrs say no more
Australia is a large country so getting the same internet speeds in rural areas will be much slower that the cities. Our broadband speeds are now reasonably comparable with a lot of other countries but we're not at the top of the list. Also, if you want faster speeds you pay more for that. I pay extra as I now WFH full time and usually get 190-200 Mbps (download), 20 Mbps (upload), which I believe is comparable to Japan.
@@lizericsonn9367 Yeah it must be nice to be rich or live in a liberal held seat that's been pork barreled.Oh and btw I think the expression you are looking for is "f*** you Jack, I'm alright".
TBF internet speeds have improved alot in the last 4-6 years. Sure it's not ranked in the top 20 in the world but its still good. But in rural areas it still sucks.
Internet outside major population centres is not always great but as other commentators have noted it’s the trade off many of us accept to live in a vast continent with relatively few people. We’re lucky enough to have NBN FTTP with 250MbBs download in a regional Victorian city but when we head bush for an Aussie extra long weekend it’s nice to forget all that and just enjoy the serenity.
Considering I'm traveling ATM and out in the country, the mobile reception and internet is shit, or nonexistent most of the time. Most of the time you have to stop at a servo with wi-fi to use the net. 🤦👍
My son who has his own computer business explained to me some slow internet (lucky mummy gets everything free lol) My speed is fine. I googled below, but it’s what he told me, makes sense. * The vast distances between cities and the sparsely populated interior make laying down fibre-optic cables and other critical infrastructure challenging and costly. The need for long-distance connections results in increased latency and slower internet speeds.
What a load of rubbish, I’m in rural Victoria near the Murray, our internet is fantastic, I can have 2 or 3 RUclips streams going at the same time on different TV’s. The main issue is the poor hardware people use for home wifi, the best option is turn off the modems wifi & connect a mesh wifi system to it.
I don't know them, but I've worked out they live somewhere right near me from seeing locations in other videos. This is an oldie but sadly still pretty accurate 🫨 If you're not with the main telco provider here, there's a bunch of regional places that have literally zero mobile internet. Bit annoying when travelling and relying on Maps and trying to keep in contact with fam... 🙄 Sorta nice sometimes to be able to temporarily vanish, though... sorry, been out of range 🤭
I'm an Aussie living in an a remote area of the Philippines, been here for 3 years. My internet connection is faster, cheaper and more reliable than I ever had in Australia on the NBN (Cairns specifically). It's fibre to the home, rather than to the node which is the vast majority of NBN connnections. People will say that "it's because Australia is so big!". Well, the Phillippines consists of over 7,500 mainly mountainous islands so the challenges for providers are even greater than in Australia. The connection is 200mbs up and down with included pay TV service and testing it over time, I consistentaly get those speeds even during peak periods. All for about $50AUD a month.
The two lads are brothers - Lachlan and Jaxon Fairbairn. They're farm boys originally, and started these skits when they were in their teens. I find them hit and miss, but my personal favourite was one where Lachlan made a Powerpoint presentation on 'Otters'... and poor Jaxon had no idea what he was presenting. So funny.
Lol! Our internet can be crap, depending on where you live, but these guys do a great job exaggerating it 😅
Here in WA - despite having NBN, we didn't get fibre to home, and so our internet often cuts out at random times, or is slow as shit. Often I give up and just use my mobile as a hotspot because it's faster and more stable. Our internet often acts up whenever it rains.
You can thank Tony Abbott and his Libs for that.
My internet is pretty good. Unlimited data and only have a few problems or lagging occasionally.
Hahaha these guys are good. Check out the one where they make Milo. Funny stuff.
Blame Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal party for the shitty internet
I was going to make this observation. Essentially tanked for Foxtel. Thanks for nothing, clowns 🤡🙄
When my son was living in Thailand, pre-NBN days, he would download whole series of programs I wanted to see on a USB device super-quuckly and post it to me in Australia as it was too slow and painful for me to do one episode overnight each night. 😅 Now I have unlimited wifi but still get dropouts and my upload speed is laughable.
Internet is expensive here and my provider has just increased their charges.
These guys are really funny. Lots of stuff to watch.
Jaxina a life long woman
Yes. The internet is totally rubbish here.
It's not even bad
internet isnt it an american thing
Internet reception in remote rural areas is atrocious usually. In cities, it's not the internet that's the problem but NBN is the problem. It was supposed to be fast but a new PM (Tony Abbott) hobbled it and made it extremely inefficient. I live in Melbourne suburbs, have 5G internet and consistently get great high speed access.
My Speedtest results from this morning: Ping = 12ms Download = 395.24Mbps Upload = 76.25Mbps
DL is never lower than 250Mbps so I'm very happy.
My cousin on a remote cattle station in western Queensland has installed Elon Musk's Starlink and it's fabulous. It costs a bit more but is tax deductible for the cattle station.
These guys in the video need Starlink.
Historically our internet was poor due to the vast distances between the phone exchange and home. As a country we relied on ADSL, with the cable provider being quite expensive. ADSL speeds drop significantly at 4km and are unusable from 6-7km. This affected suburbs not just rural areas. In the late 2010s the govt started replacing the copper phone network with fiber, and the internet problems have all but disappeared.
Yep.. Pretty bloody spot on!🤣
Hey MSTV bit of a random comment here but you oughta react to Review with Myles Barlow. Its really quite humorous. I'd be very surprised if you didn't get a laugh out of it.
And yes. Aussie internet does indeed suck. I use Starlink though so.
When I first went online it was with dial up internet on a Windows 98se computer , Pentium 1 or 2 I forget . Loading a 1 mb photo could take 5 minutes , dial up required a landline which was about $30 a month and the ISP charge was similar PLUS every connection to the internet was a local call charge of 30 cents or so . Very happy those days are long gone 🤓
We can all thank the bloody LNP conservative government who when elected back in 2013 ditched Labors fibre to the premises and introduced fibre to the node crap. Essentially to save time and money. Unfortunately Abbott's cut down NBN was far inferior, costs were heaps higher and it took years later to implement. The new Labor Govt is trying to increase the amount of fibre connections, but it is way more expensive and complicated to ditch the bloody node idea. Instead of having fast and reliable internet we are stuck with the cluster fuk.
Just depends where you are. Some areas got great some got bad. The government during the nbn roll-out changed and the right wing stuffed it to protect Rupert Murdoch and his media interests. Im in a small country town in Victoria, i have 6 people in the house and most of us are usually double screening, be it gaming or streaming stuff. Only one tv is plugged in to the aerial. We never get any lagging .
It took a week to upload this comment .. that's better than usual so I'm happy with that.
Never had a problem with my internet connection.
They are hilarious. Deffo worth you checking out more of their vids, if only for your own amusement 😁
I believe UK fits into Qld alone 8 or 9 times and our population is small you may have faster internet but then when you live in your pokey little houses in the cold all the time you need more internet I have lived there over 20 yrs but Australia 55yrs say no more
He doesn't live in the UK.
Used to be - even in Melbourne!
Australia is a large country so getting the same internet speeds in rural areas will be much slower that the cities. Our broadband speeds are now reasonably comparable with a lot of other countries but we're not at the top of the list. Also, if you want faster speeds you pay more for that. I pay extra as I now WFH full time and usually get 190-200 Mbps (download), 20 Mbps (upload), which I believe is comparable to Japan.
Sooo you can afford the fast stuff and bugger the rest of us?
@@lizericsonn9367 Yeah it must be nice to be rich or live in a liberal held seat that's been pork barreled.Oh and btw I think the expression you are looking for is "f*** you Jack, I'm alright".
We've given up and joined Starlink despite the cost, NBN has become impossible where we live..Rural area..
Stoppages.. You never know. Sometimes speeds are slow.. OK. .. I live in the bush, so that's what ya get.
TBF internet speeds have improved alot in the last 4-6 years. Sure it's not ranked in the top 20 in the world but its still good. But in rural areas it still sucks.
I have FTTP at my house so I am cruising with my internet
in a major city it's bad but when you head further inland you have to be up high to get any signal
Our internet is pretty good but only because we got NBN FTTP before the Government decided not to do that every household.
Yeah, thanks Libs for that.
YEP! Try going for a drive ... omg ...
Internet outside major population centres is not always great but as other commentators have noted it’s the trade off many of us accept to live in a vast continent with relatively few people. We’re lucky enough to have NBN FTTP with 250MbBs download in a regional Victorian city but when we head bush for an Aussie extra long weekend it’s nice to forget all that and just enjoy the serenity.
Considering I'm traveling ATM and out in the country, the mobile reception and internet is shit, or nonexistent most of the time. Most of the time you have to stop at a servo with wi-fi to use the net. 🤦👍
If you're using a laptop with a USB modem or mobile hotspot , you can get them with external antenna capability if that helps .
My son who has his own computer business explained to me some slow internet (lucky mummy gets everything free lol) My speed is fine. I googled below, but it’s what he told me, makes sense.
* The vast distances between cities and the sparsely populated interior make laying down fibre-optic cables and other critical infrastructure challenging and costly. The need for long-distance connections results in increased latency and slower internet speeds.
What a load of rubbish, I’m in rural Victoria near the Murray, our internet is fantastic, I can have 2 or 3 RUclips streams going at the same time on different TV’s. The main issue is the poor hardware people use for home wifi, the best option is turn off the modems wifi & connect a mesh wifi system to it.
I don't know them, but I've worked out they live somewhere right near me from seeing locations in other videos. This is an oldie but sadly still pretty accurate 🫨 If you're not with the main telco provider here, there's a bunch of regional places that have literally zero mobile internet. Bit annoying when travelling and relying on Maps and trying to keep in contact with fam... 🙄 Sorta nice sometimes to be able to temporarily vanish, though... sorry, been out of range 🤭