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Re: myrepublic NBN

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On Friday, 17 Mar 2017 4:54 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote
>
>> Just wondering if anyone has gone with them?
>
> Yes, 3 I know personally have including me.
>
>> are they as good as they say?
>
> No one ever is. They have some real downsides. They can be a complete
> pain in the arse to call, can take anything from 30 mins to an hour 
> for the
> call to be answered and online chat can be worse to get a response.
>
> Most of that wouldn’t affect you if you churned from TPG, mate of
> mine did that on my suggestion in about a week from memory.
> And if you have FTTP you can have them both simultaneously if
> you like so no loss of internet. Just cancel with TPG once the MR
> service is up on the second port on the NTU.
>
> Their communication can be quite poor, even when there is a problem
> with delivering on your signup, they can fail to even tell you that you
> say need to get the ULL number when migrating from a naked service
> and only tell you that when you ring them to ask why you arent connected.
>
> They can take a month to connect you.

that doesn't sound good then

>
> SOME customers are seeing a dramatic sag in the download speed
> from 95 in offpeak times to 5 or even 1 in peak times in the evening
> and that meaning that stuff like netflix just doesn’t work.

I experienced that last night with TPG. speed was down to 5 mbps and 
netflix stopped working. makes me think it's a NBN thing rather than a 
ISP thing. but then I'm no expert on this matter.

>
> They only have the one POP in sydney and the pings arent brilliant
> even if you are in sydney, 35ms isnt uncommon and can be much
> worse than that in Perth etc.
>
> The static IPs on the gamer plan arent generally australian ones
> and it can take months for the databases to be updated by some
> operations like Foxtel so your services can be refused until that
> happens when they decide that you arent in Australia.
>
> The normal plan uses CGNAT for the internal IP which
> means that there isnt any easy way to run an internal server,
> but the gamer plan fixes that and only costs $10 more.
>
> On the plus side,

seems there's quite a bit of minus side tho

> they are by far the cheapest 100/40 plan
> around and its unlimited. You can get a lower cost per month
> if you don’t mine a 12/1 service and fuck all downloads from
> some other RSPs.
>
> I got a 10% reduction in the cost per month, went from 8/1
> on adsl2+ to 108/44 on the NBN at the physical level which
> is 10 times faster download speed and 44 times upload speed.

I had stable and consistent 32-36 mbps with Telstra cable, so I'm worse 
off now in terms of speed for around the same price. However, I now have 
unlimited downloads, which is what I wanted for netflix, stan, youtube, 
etc.,

>
> Get 96/30 with speedtest in off peak times. Can sag to 10/30
> in peak times, but doesn’t always happen. I have gone for weeks
> with no sag at all in peak times and I don’t bother with netflix.
>
> The modem they supply is very decent and only costs $1
> on the standard contract plan.
>
>> TPG speed on the 25 mbps plan has dropped from 23mbps to around 
>> 17mbps since I started with them a few months ago,
>
> What are you downloading with ?

just the standard modem that TPG supplies Netcomm NF300 NF12

> Mate of mine who got
> a FTTP NBN service with TPG found that that steaming
> turd of a modem that TPG supplys couldn’t even do 25mbps
> downloads. They were fine on ethernet.

I have everything connected via ethernet except for mobile devices. I 
use all four ports of the modem and one is output to a five port auto 
switch ( http://tinyurl.com/mkpx543 ) and all of those ports are also used

> He changed to MR
> and now gets the full 96/34 all the time.

is that a type of modem? the max speed I have had with the TPG modem is 
22mbps

>
> Do you get that poor result first thing in the morning before you go 
> to work ?

usually use the internet later in the day or evening

>
>> and just recently I'm getting buffering with movie streaming. I guess 
>> more ppl in the area are now on the NBN causing the speed drop?
>
> It can be. Many RSPs are using Optus Wholesale and they just arent
> buying enough CVC and are seeing significant sags in peak times.
>
>> or would it be just a TPG thing?
>
> It can be with congestion. You don’t say if you
> have FTTN, HFC or FTTP or even fixed wireless.
>
>

FTTP. thanks for all that info. btw.. I was told recently that Vaya (the 
mobile company) will soon introduce an NBN broadband plan


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