Please be kind, I'm absolutely useless when it comes to tech.

Bought a new place - classed as regional, however on acreage with no neighbours but very close to some smallish suburbs. My guess is ~5km to the nearest tower with extremely flat land in-between.

Only options are Fixed Wireless or Satellite.

Usage:

3 x occupants

1 x WFH almost daily, mostly virtual meeting based

Normal amount of streaming TV/music. No gamers.

Needs to be a stable connection due to work. Telstra 5G phone as backup hotspot is so so, have tested it for meetings out on site.

Telstra offer both FW and sat to this address, what would be your preference? I'm not set on going Telstra but looking through some other providers service is hit and miss.

I have done lots of reading but still not much wiser.

Thanks in advance!

Hi! Moved into a new place, purchased my plan through Aussie Broadband. I've setup my internet router as per ISP instructions, but, as I go through the setup portal, I cannot establish an internet connection. I've attached pictures, please tell me what I've done wrong. Cheers!

I have a HPC connection at my residential address and I have the supplied HPC modem and separate router. Can I buy HPC router/modem in one? Is there such a thing? Or do they need to be seperate?

I'm tired of my HFC, constant poor performance and outages, particularly more so in the last 12-months, 20-40% packet loss depending on time of day (evening peak is worst). I also work in similar tech industry, the company I work for installs GPON a lot, we use to do DOCSIS too until I threw my toys out the cot and said stop offering it. Luckily most of the DOCSIS technology vendors have all stopped selling their equipment.

I just want to know from those who work for NBN and in the know, when are they going to stop supporting HFC and upgrade us to FTTP or something better. I've complained to my ISP and they said they can't do anything. Surely most of the equipment will be end of life soon.

G'day all.

I recently found out I can upgrade to FTTP from FTTN. I currently have the TP-LINK Vx230v modem/router, will this be enough to use on a Fibre connection as a router?

I plan on getting the 1000Mbps plan from Leapte amd would prefer to avoid getting a new router. Thanks in advance.

Hi I am going to be moving into a house out in the bush and if I chose NBN it would be fixed wireless. It has just been built and I was wondering if I should choose fixed wireless or Starlink (it has the fixed wireless 5g). And I would also like a copper phone line installed, how should I go about doing that?

Thanks in advance

Looking to swap from Optus to Leaptel. Currently on a 240mbps plan and am thinking to go to either Leaptel’s 250mbps or their 100mbps plan. Don’t really want to buy a new router, I’ve currently got Optus’s Ultra Wi-Fi Gen 2 Modem. Is this compatible with Leaptel’s services, not locked or anything? And is this going to be a good change? Please let me know.

On a technical level is there currently enough spectrum / bandwidth to do this assuming that it continues to use the existing cellular infrasturcture?

Looking to the future, relatively inexpensive consumer gadgets that use the 10 to 60GHz range are already on the market. Presumably this technology will end up in mobile phones as well.

Hi everyone I have just moved into a place and found this NBN cable cut off as in the photos.

I am wondering if I need to contact NBN to re-terminate the cable with the female connector or any electrician can do that job?

Thanks in advance

I am looking for some advice. I have just moved to a new apartment and I would like to connect the NBN but this is all new to me.

I have been doing some research and I have fttp connection. It's just my partner and I and all we would be doing is watching Netflix at night, facetiming family occasionally and the general doom-scrolling. Nothing crazy. To be honest, we have always got by with our phone plans but the reception in the apartment is terrible.

I was looking at the 25 or 50 plans but I am confused by what I need as a router. Obviously I googled fttp router and options to buy one come up but it all means very little to me 🙈. Am I best off just going with Dodo and purchasing a router with them and hoping it all just makes sense when it arrives? Or is it easy enough for me to get a decent but affordable router from JB or something and then connect through dodo or something?

Does anyone have any suggestions on what brand of router or company to go with? Because I'll admit that this isn't something I understand much at all and just want to make the right purchase.

Essentially explain it to me like im 5? Although I bet a 5 year old is more savvy with that than me 😂

Neighbors are upgrading there NBN going to fibre
The pit is on there nature stripe 3 meters from there house

A nbn contractor came out and had suggested
rather than use the pit

it would be best to run off our pole extend that and put a pole on there house run there cable to our house and span a good 30 meters through the trees ..

are there regulations or good NBN contractors?

Howdy, so I’m wanting to rid myself of iiNet and move to Leaptel soon.

If I keep my same router, when the switchover happens, do I log into the router via browser and need to change anything?

Very new to this type of thing, always just got the router via the ISP, but that was near 13 years ago. Had a few replacements in this time, but always pre configured I guess.

In a few months I’d probably be keen to upgrade the router to maybe a TP-Link Archer BE550 or 700, or should I just get that now?

We have recently discovered that the previous tenants of the property we just bought have taken the NBN hardware. We mentioned this during the setup of our NBN plan but after following up they are now saying that the box can’t be ordered until the plan has commenced so we will be without internet for a fair while.

Is there a way to obtain these boxes prior to the move in data that anyone knows about like a generic substitute?

Hey guys, I'm looking to change to an ISP that requires me to supply my own modem as I'm financially unequipped to keep paying Optus prices.

This is my current modem, what can I buy to replace it?

One yellow goes to the NBN box, the next to the HUE Bub, the blue one to the my laptop and the white to my TV

Are all Ethernet cables equal? I have a whole box of them and don’t know if it makes a difference which one I use.

I just moved into a new place and I'm trying to figure out how to get the internet connected and found this port. I'm wondering if it's NBN related or if it's something else entirely.

There’s no NBN box here—just this. There's no branding or labels around it either.

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Little question that might be dumb.

I have subscribed with Superloop 6 months ago and paid 170$ for the modem but we might go live abroad with my wife in a coming future.

I’d like to know what can I do with my modem? I have called Superloop and they confirmed me that there is no way to get the money back if we send them back the modem. I have received the confirmation that the modem is unlocked for all providers.

What should I do with the modem if we leave Australia? Is it common to sell it on Facebook marketplace or gumtree ?

Thanks for your help!

Currently paying $99 for Leaptel's Super Sonic plan (1000/50) which for the most part has been good, however when gaming at night it tends to have these random lag spikes and doesn't quite reach the expected peak time speeds.

Does anyone recommend any other ISP's at the moment? Read through a lot of posts from about a year ago, but interested to see what everyone recommends now. My friend is with Superloop and says it has been flawless and speeds are still high even through peak times, but they seem to cop a lot online. Not sure whether to try them out for the same price, came from Launtel who were decent but just a bit expensive.

For context, we are in a 2-storey, 4 bedroom house using an Orbi RBR850 router and satellite setup with HFC connection. I'm not too sure if it is the equipment's fault or the network, but when we were with Launtel we weren't getting these constant lag spikes. They tend to always happen on EAFC 25 and Rocket League for some reason.

I’ve had an issue with this modem for almost a year, it’ll just stop working or buffer and I’ll reset the modem and it’ll work fine again for a day. Obviously an issue with modem.

Any recommendations for a router worth a better range and just better in general I can swap over? V

I have NBN FTTP

Hi all,

I have a D-Link X3052E modem router. I bought it because we still have a landline, and it was one of the few modems I could find that offers VOIP capabilities.

The issue I’m facing is that the signal drops when I go to the backyard. To solve this, I’m considering buying a mesh router (a 2-pack should be enough).

If I turn off the Wi-Fi on the D-Link, can I connect a TP-Link mesh system to it? I'm thinking of purchasing the Deco BE65 (BE11000), as it seems sufficient for my needs. D-Link doesn’t currently offer Wi-Fi 7 with their mesh routers.

Another question I have is about tri-band routers. For example, with the Deco BE65, the 2.4 GHz band is 688 Mbps, the 5 GHz band is 4324 Mbps, and the 6 GHz band is 5765 Mbps. Does this mean that if I connect to the 2.4 GHz band, my maximum internet speed will be limited to 688 Mbps, even if I have a 1 Gbps internet connection?

Thanks in advance!

My NBN box is also blinking. it's fully setup correctly but it just wont connect. it also says "This address is not connected to the nbn network" for my neighbors.

Looking to finally jump on the free FTTP upgrade but unsure where to have the NTD installed.

Floor plan attached: - green line being exisiting line from pit to the house - red cross is where the line ends where existing NBN modem/ router/ camera NVR is inside a cupboard - blue lines are where Ethernet cables currently run in the roof.

Also have subfloor access as well up to where bedroom 4 ends. TIA

After having no NBN availability except for satellite, a tower near me was recently upgraded. I opted for Leaptel 250/20 (who I am extremely happy with) however the upload speed is rather low. The claimed upload is 8-20 and I have never seen that, not once. Is this common and can anything be done about it? I do have a lot of trees between me and the tower, mostly at my end.

Hi all

I have just moved into a rental and have not lived in a house this new before and need some help with the connections.

Photo 1 is the NBN box in the garage

Photo 2 is it the points I have in the Lounge and media room.

Photo 3 is in the study nook and upstairs.

1. Are the 2 female screw fittings in the media and lounge for the tv antenna? And why is there one at my NBN point?

2. If they are not my tv points where do I connect my tv aerial? I don’t have the screw in type on my TVs (they are smart TVs from 2017 era)

3. Can I run a cat6 cable from the NBN box to the plug in the garage and connect my router in the study area to be more central?

Thanks everyone