In Australia symmetrical is only for bigger businesses. Every home connection is asymmetrical, with the common ones being 25/5, 50/20, or 100/20. There’s outliers if you’re willing to pay more (I’m on 250/50 and there’s 1000/50 if you’ll pay upwards of $150/mth) but the first 3 are the default/common plans on our national broadband.
250/50 sounds amazing. How much per month does that cost? Is it unlimited or with a data cap?
Are you inner city or right next to a node, if you don’t mind me asking? I’m in a ‘regional centre’ and while ISPs are happy to charge us for 50/20 or 100/20 plans, we just can’t/won’t get those speeds here (even before the pandemic and the work from home shift).
It’s so frustrating trying to help out less tech savvy family and explaining that they’re basically getting the broadband speeds they had before and that’s all they’ll get on this NBN (if they’re lucky), and that paying more than the minimum $70/month for higher speeds is throwing money away.
Costs me AUD$40/mth for the first 12 months then $80/mth after that (no contracts, month to month). No data limits other than an abuse clause, Eg you can’t run commercial stuff from home or anything. I’m a very heavy user though, plenty of torrenting and downloading big ISOs nearly daily and stuff, and I’ve never had an issue. I’m regional, and pretty close to centre of town but not right in the middle (I guess it’d be inner-suburbs?).
It’s HFC by iiNet not NBN, and it’s so much better. We had NBN for years and had endless issues, this has been utterly flawless without a single dropout in over a year now, and if anything we usually get well over advertised speeds.
1000/50 is beyond my wildest dreams at this point! $140/mo is pretty great. Aussie Broadband are worth the extra money imo, they’re great. Thanks for replying!
1000/40 is $270/month here in USA. Fortunately Google Fiber just dug up the neighborhood so hopefully I’ll have 2000/1000 before the end of the year, for 1/2 that cost.
It depends on where you are. Especially if you're in an area with competition. In the rare places there are two good providers, it's going to be $100+ cheaper.
