17-06-2017, 11:12 AM
I'm with iiNet on their 25Mbps unlimited plan FTTN. It includes local, national and mobile calls. They transferred my phone number to their included voip service and I just plugged my cordless phone into the socket on the back of the router. One thing I found disturbing was they asked me to waive my rights to a minimum service guarantee for the VOIP service or they "might not be able to provide any service to our premises". Consumer affairs advised that they are within their rights to do so. Only Telstra must adhere to a minimum service guarantee for voip. 
The cut over service was rough and they messed up our mailboxes, sent us emails while we had no mailboxes and no service advising of new accounts and passwords. The support people on the phone did not understand the stupidity of such a process. Since iiNet were taken over by TPG their phone support is appalling.
We live 20km from Geelong and I guess that makes us rural. There are pockets of FTTP in our town but it is unlikely that will become the reality for most of us any time soon.
We have about 800m of cable from our house to the node. Speed tests from a Linux box on my home network regularly report download speeds between 18 to 22 Mbps but I think the reality is much less. before I cut over my ADSL service was providing around 7Mbps. I do not use Ookla, I think it lies.
Overnight I downloaded 7.5GB broken down into 15 files. I used FTP from a reliable server. Each file took on average 3300 seconds to download. Do the maths, it is nowhere near 25Mbps.
Read VK2OMD's blog re download speed vs nominal plan speeds for iiNet. I concur with his findings. Having said that, a friend in Geelong (also with iiNet) has just sent me a screenshot of his Ookla speed test showing 519Mbps download. He lives a few km from the iiNet exchange in Geelong and receives his service via the Optus cable in the street.
I made a saving of $25/month over my ADSL plan with the same company and my service hasn't really changed for normal internet use including Netflix, Stan, Youtube etc. I can't say I'm at a disadvantage moving to NBN. I do question the crap we've been fed by nearly everyone about how great the NBN will be. Your mileage will vary and you cannot hold anyone to account for what you ultimately receive from your chosen ISP.
The cut over service was rough and they messed up our mailboxes, sent us emails while we had no mailboxes and no service advising of new accounts and passwords. The support people on the phone did not understand the stupidity of such a process. Since iiNet were taken over by TPG their phone support is appalling.
We live 20km from Geelong and I guess that makes us rural. There are pockets of FTTP in our town but it is unlikely that will become the reality for most of us any time soon.
We have about 800m of cable from our house to the node. Speed tests from a Linux box on my home network regularly report download speeds between 18 to 22 Mbps but I think the reality is much less. before I cut over my ADSL service was providing around 7Mbps. I do not use Ookla, I think it lies.
Overnight I downloaded 7.5GB broken down into 15 files. I used FTP from a reliable server. Each file took on average 3300 seconds to download. Do the maths, it is nowhere near 25Mbps.
Read VK2OMD's blog re download speed vs nominal plan speeds for iiNet. I concur with his findings. Having said that, a friend in Geelong (also with iiNet) has just sent me a screenshot of his Ookla speed test showing 519Mbps download. He lives a few km from the iiNet exchange in Geelong and receives his service via the Optus cable in the street.
I made a saving of $25/month over my ADSL plan with the same company and my service hasn't really changed for normal internet use including Netflix, Stan, Youtube etc. I can't say I'm at a disadvantage moving to NBN. I do question the crap we've been fed by nearly everyone about how great the NBN will be. Your mileage will vary and you cannot hold anyone to account for what you ultimately receive from your chosen ISP.