All of Australia's going to be forced onto the NBN which includes changing landlines to VOIP after having to *waive* one's customer service guarantee, only those with a fixed wireless connection can choose to keep their copper landline. It's the total monopoly with minimal responsibility Telstra's always wanted, and the fact that people aren't up in arms about it shows how well they've kept it off the public radar, in spite of the plans being set in stone for anyone to see years ago and the amount of negative press about the NBN, which nevertheless avoids this key fact, nevermind that Telstra, through the 'government-owned and Telstra-run' NBNco, now being the ISP to the ISPs adds another layer to the back-and-forth frustrations of dealing with ISPs. When Telstra got privatized they fired a bunch of installers, busted senior technicians down to that job and let the lines rot to save money. Fast forward and Malcolm Turnbull, a day after seeing Rupert Murdoch, announces his "cheaper, better Multi-Technology Mix" (ie, expensively cobbled together out of spare parts) NBN, and instead of NBNco installing the fibre their technicians were trained for at projected cost, Telstra gets the contract to replace their old copper with 'new' copper at far greater expense, a win-win for Telstra and a nonsensical lose-lose for Aussies everywhere. That's just the tip of the iceberg, for just a smattering of 'minor' complaints there's Turdball's yacht co-owning mate he made CEO of NBNco, who got a $1million paycheck and a performance bonus the year it went $15 billion over budget, steadfastly refused to give the government cost figures and bring others who could despite being asked twice, the under-provisioning by ISPs because they're charged far more for bandwidth (CVC) than they can possibly charge their customers, leading to slow-downs at peak times, and as I personally found out, NBN rejecting all faults related to slow speeds on a throttled connection no matter how slow, or 10 kilobits/second in my case, getting half the rated speed or less being dismissed as normal congestion and the rated speed now defined as maximum; it'd take a book to list all of the problems with the NBN!
Lucky at least you get a choice where I am we got a letter from telstra saying we will be switched over without warning in October 2017 and our adsl2 which is really good probly better then some nbn connections will be disconnected
No its a forced roll over to nbn and continuing our contract from adsl to nbn and charging us the same even tho if i was to sign up for nbn it would be cheaper for the same plan there basically scamming us out of money where going to cancel our plan because we did not agree to get switched over and get a new plan with a different isp
All of Australia's going to be forced onto the NBN which includes changing landlines to VOIP after having to *waive* one's customer service guarantee, only those with a fixed wireless connection can choose to keep their copper landline. It's the total monopoly with minimal responsibility Telstra's always wanted, and the fact that people aren't up in arms about it shows how well they've kept it off the public radar, in spite of the plans being set in stone for anyone to see years ago and the amount of negative press about the NBN, which nevertheless avoids this key fact, nevermind that Telstra, through the 'government-owned and Telstra-run' NBNco, now being the ISP to the ISPs adds another layer to the back-and-forth frustrations of dealing with ISPs. When Telstra got privatized they fired a bunch of installers, busted senior technicians down to that job and let the lines rot to save money. Fast forward and Malcolm Turnbull, a day after seeing Rupert Murdoch, announces his "cheaper, better Multi-Technology Mix" (ie, expensively cobbled together out of spare parts) NBN, and instead of NBNco installing the fibre their technicians were trained for at projected cost, Telstra gets the contract to replace their old copper with 'new' copper at far greater expense, a win-win for Telstra and a nonsensical lose-lose for Aussies everywhere. That's just the tip of the iceberg, for just a smattering of 'minor' complaints there's Turdball's yacht co-owning mate he made CEO of NBNco, who got a $1million paycheck and a performance bonus the year it went $15 billion over budget, the under-provisioning by ISPs because they're changed far more for bandwidth than they can possibly charge their customers, leading to slow-downs at peak times, and as I personally found out, NBN rejecting all faults related to slow speeds on a throttled connection no matter how slow, or 10 kilobits/second in my case, getting half the rated speed or less being dismissed as normal congestion and the rated speed now defined as maximum; it'd take a book to list all of the problems with the NBN!
I am angry about the fact that Telstra decided to send me out a new NBN modem now that my area is able to get NBN. Because I was with them for ADSL, if I simply plugged it in it would have auto connected and committed me to a 2 year overpriced NBN plan...... Shop around, there are some very good value NBN plans out there........If you have shares in Telstra, by all means plug in the Modem and Auto - Commit .......
Hey, I appreciate the advise..... I was with Telstra for over 10 years on a 12 Mbps/1Mbps plan....... In the middle of the night I would get around 10Mbps download.... At 6pm daily my speed would decrease to "2" Mbps - and I can actually see the exchange from my front door. I appreciate that when everyone swings over to NBN there may be pipeline restrictions, but at the moment there may be one house in 100 that is using it. My download speed at 5.02pm peak hour was 2Mbps and today on NBN it is 22.2Mbps, a clear 10 times faster at this time of the day. I know that there may be congestion issues when "Everybody" is using NBN, but that may be years off yet - Either way, my present supplier is cheaper than Telstra, gave me a free modem and connection and there is no contract - I can change whenever I want with no penalty..... All I wanted was faster connection with less drop outs and I seem to have found it.
"watch the lightning crack over cane fields and laugh and think this is asstralia"
All of Australia's going to be forced onto the NBN which includes changing landlines to VOIP after having to *waive* one's customer service guarantee, only those with a fixed wireless connection can choose to keep their copper landline. It's the total monopoly with minimal responsibility Telstra's always wanted, and the fact that people aren't up in arms about it shows how well they've kept it off the public radar, in spite of the plans being set in stone for anyone to see years ago and the amount of negative press about the NBN, which nevertheless avoids this key fact, nevermind that Telstra, through the 'government-owned and Telstra-run' NBNco, now being the ISP to the ISPs adds another layer to the back-and-forth frustrations of dealing with ISPs. When Telstra got privatized they fired a bunch of installers, busted senior technicians down to that job and let the lines rot to save money. Fast forward and Malcolm Turnbull, a day after seeing Rupert Murdoch, announces his "cheaper, better Multi-Technology Mix" (ie, expensively cobbled together out of spare parts) NBN, and instead of NBNco installing the fibre their technicians were trained for at projected cost, Telstra gets the contract to replace their old copper with 'new' copper at far greater expense, a win-win for Telstra and a nonsensical lose-lose for Aussies everywhere. That's just the tip of the iceberg, for just a smattering of 'minor' complaints there's Turdball's yacht co-owning mate he made CEO of NBNco, who got a $1million paycheck and a performance bonus the year it went $15 billion over budget, steadfastly refused to give the government cost figures and bring others who could despite being asked twice, the under-provisioning by ISPs because they're charged far more for bandwidth (CVC) than they can possibly charge their customers, leading to slow-downs at peak times, and as I personally found out, NBN rejecting all faults related to slow speeds on a throttled connection no matter how slow, or 10 kilobits/second in my case, getting half the rated speed or less being dismissed as normal congestion and the rated speed now defined as maximum; it'd take a book to list all of the problems with the NBN!
Not everyone. Those who are lucky can still get other non-NBN broadband, example TPG's own network FTTB - $59.99 unlimited 100/40
Lucky at least you get a choice where I am we got a letter from telstra saying we will be switched over without warning in October 2017 and our adsl2 which is really good probly better then some nbn connections will be disconnected
What happened to "Free Choice"?..... Do you only have Telstra in your area?......Do they monopolize where you live?
No its a forced roll over to nbn and continuing our contract from adsl to nbn and charging us the same even tho if i was to sign up for nbn it would be cheaper for the same plan there basically scamming us out of money where going to cancel our plan because we did not agree to get switched over and get a new plan with a different isp
All of Australia's going to be forced onto the NBN which includes changing landlines to VOIP after having to *waive* one's customer service guarantee, only those with a fixed wireless connection can choose to keep their copper landline. It's the total monopoly with minimal responsibility Telstra's always wanted, and the fact that people aren't up in arms about it shows how well they've kept it off the public radar, in spite of the plans being set in stone for anyone to see years ago and the amount of negative press about the NBN, which nevertheless avoids this key fact, nevermind that Telstra, through the 'government-owned and Telstra-run' NBNco, now being the ISP to the ISPs adds another layer to the back-and-forth frustrations of dealing with ISPs. When Telstra got privatized they fired a bunch of installers, busted senior technicians down to that job and let the lines rot to save money. Fast forward and Malcolm Turnbull, a day after seeing Rupert Murdoch, announces his "cheaper, better Multi-Technology Mix" (ie, expensively cobbled together out of spare parts) NBN, and instead of NBNco installing the fibre their technicians were trained for at projected cost, Telstra gets the contract to replace their old copper with 'new' copper at far greater expense, a win-win for Telstra and a nonsensical lose-lose for Aussies everywhere. That's just the tip of the iceberg, for just a smattering of 'minor' complaints there's Turdball's yacht co-owning mate he made CEO of NBNco, who got a $1million paycheck and a performance bonus the year it went $15 billion over budget, the under-provisioning by ISPs because they're changed far more for bandwidth than they can possibly charge their customers, leading to slow-downs at peak times, and as I personally found out, NBN rejecting all faults related to slow speeds on a throttled connection no matter how slow, or 10 kilobits/second in my case, getting half the rated speed or less being dismissed as normal congestion and the rated speed now defined as maximum; it'd take a book to list all of the problems with the NBN!
Hope they're better than their ADSL modems, which are fairly ordinary. I was given one, soon swapped back to my Netgear.
I am angry about the fact that Telstra decided to send me out a new NBN modem now that my area is able to get NBN. Because I was with them for ADSL, if I simply plugged it in it would have auto connected and committed me to a 2 year overpriced NBN plan...... Shop around, there are some very good value NBN plans out there........If you have shares in Telstra, by all means plug in the Modem and Auto - Commit .......
Hey, I appreciate the advise..... I was with Telstra for over 10 years on a 12 Mbps/1Mbps plan....... In the middle of the night I would get around 10Mbps download.... At 6pm daily my speed would decrease to "2" Mbps - and I can actually see the exchange from my front door. I appreciate that when everyone swings over to NBN there may be pipeline restrictions, but at the moment there may be one house in 100 that is using it. My download speed at 5.02pm peak hour was 2Mbps and today on NBN it is 22.2Mbps, a clear 10 times faster at this time of the day. I know that there may be congestion issues when "Everybody" is using NBN, but that may be years off yet - Either way, my present supplier is cheaper than Telstra, gave me a free modem and connection and there is no contract - I can change whenever I want with no penalty..... All I wanted was faster connection with less drop outs and I seem to have found it.
You could just sell the modem ;) what are they gonna do about it