broadband
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Planhacker: The Cheapest Unlimited ADSL2+ Plans
We talk a lot about the NBN, but for millions of Australian homes ADSL2+ is still the technology that delivers us Netflix, porn and news about Donald Trump. Such is 2017. For example, my house is still at least a year from an NBN connection, but I’m also out of contract on my home broadband,…
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NBN Speeds Are Too Slow – And ISPs Aren’t Doing Enough To Fix It
Internet service providers are promising they will spend more money to ensure higher speeds for customers using the National Broadband Network, but it remains unclear how much difference that will actually make. Users of the high-speed network have become increasingly vocal about congestion problems, especially during evening periods when thousands of people are watching streaming…
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Internet Australia: It’s Not Too Late To Ditch FTTN
NBN needs to abandon copper-based Fibre to the Node (FTTN), says lobby group Internet Australia. In its latest attack, the organisation is claiming it’s “essential for Australia’s economic and social development” to abandon the technology in favour of Fibre to the distribution point. And no, it says, it’s not too late.
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Half Of Us Can Connect To The NBN – So What?
The current incarnation of the NBN, which was meant to be better, faster and cheaper but seems to be less reliable, slower and more expensive to deploy has crossed a new threshold – more than half the population can now access Australia’s “bleeding edge” mashup of copper, coaxial and fibre to connect to the Internet…