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On Saturday, 18 Mar 2017 7:47 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>
>
> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:ej3g75F91jlU1@mid.individual.net...
>> 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
>
> Not relevant in your case, you'd be churning.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, its hard to find any NBN RSP that isnt
> seeing that with some of their customers.
>
>> makes me think it's a NBN thing rather than a ISP thing.
>
> Its certainly an NBN thing because of the way CVCs are
> done and the cost of them. Any NBN RSP has to ensure
> that what they are paying per month for CVCs is less
> than what they are receiving from their customers,
> otherwise they will go broke.
>
>> but then I'm no expert on this matter.
>
> It is correct in this case. MT and Aussie Broadband are adding a lot more
> POIs so they have complete control over what CVC capacity they have.
>
> Its far from clear how well that will work for an operation like MR
> which has unlimited downloads. Aussie Broadband doesn’t, it has
> 1TB download limits and charges quite a bit more per month too.
>
>>> 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
>
> True, but there arent many that don’t have quite a bit on
> the minus side too, even the majors like Optarse and Telstra.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, that’s true of those coming from HFC. But you don’t
> have any choice on that, the plug will be pulled on HFC.
>
>> However, I now have unlimited downloads, which is what I wanted for 
>> netflix, stan, youtube, etc.,
>
> Its more complicated than that. Aussie Broadband doesn’t count Netflix 
> downloads.
>
>>> 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?
>
> Nope, that’s the speed he gets with speedtest.
>
>> the max speed I have had with the TPG modem is 22mbps
>
> Because you were on the 25/5 plan.
>
> He was on the 100/40 plan but changed to the 12/1 plan
> because the modem was such a steaming turn on wifi.
>
>>> 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
>
> Sure, but that’s the way to see if the problem is congestion, see if
> there is any difference between very early and during peak times.


OK

>
>>>> 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
>
> Yeah, almost everyone is doing that now.

so do you think I would see much improvement with a different modem? and 
if so how much would I need to spend and what one would be best? then I 
would have to configure it of course, but I guess the ISP would provide 
info on how to do that.


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          Re: myrepublic NBN F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-18 22:32 +1100
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