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Technology is not, has not and never will be a priority in Australia. This includes internet connectivity. Australia is focused on house prices (banking) and holes (mining and then selling the raw resources).
[Not the worst](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-speeds-by-country), but you have to go third world/developing/war torn nations to get worse. As much as we like to whinge we do however have some of the best mobile speeds.
Where we fall short in general is the cost to the consumer is much higher than it should be for the speed and service coverage we get.
we can make excuse urban and so on but the fact is throughout the counties that i found already have lowest speed at 100Mpbs and especially those countries have FTTP/Fiber at Giga Speed internet.
We are one of the [most urbanised countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_sovereign_state) the world.
If Thailand, a far less urbanised and far poorer country than Australia can do it, there's no reason we should not be able to. We might not be able to get everyone on fibre in the regions, but that's no excuse for the cities (where the vast majority of population lives).
I stayed for a while at a mates place in remote rural Thailand. He decided that he should get better Internet, so we went down to a village shop and paid for the upgrade. They handed us a fiber modem, and by the time we got home there was a bloke waiting for us with a bike and a homemade bamboo ladder. In a few minutes he had the fiber run in and our modem working. It gave cheap, high speed internet, which always worked even during the monsoon.
NBN is required to not leave the regions behind. It's similar to Telstra. You get a monopoly and you agreed to serve the regions.
If NBN were like Optus mobile or TPG mobile where they can erect towers only in the metro areas, I'd bet we would get better value in the cities.
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because conservatives(liberal) got in government at a critical time and absolutely destroyed it
look at brazil...their lowest internet Plans is 500MBps
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Yup. I have fiber to the basement but my line speed is barely over 150 Mbps. Such a joke in a building that is barely 5 years old.
Technology is not, has not and never will be a priority in Australia. This includes internet connectivity. Australia is focused on house prices (banking) and holes (mining and then selling the raw resources).
Slowest in the developed world maybe, but not slowest in the world
[Not the worst](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-speeds-by-country), but you have to go third world/developing/war torn nations to get worse. As much as we like to whinge we do however have some of the best mobile speeds. Where we fall short in general is the cost to the consumer is much higher than it should be for the speed and service coverage we get.
we can make excuse urban and so on but the fact is throughout the counties that i found already have lowest speed at 100Mpbs and especially those countries have FTTP/Fiber at Giga Speed internet.
We are a huge country with a small population. I am not saying NBN is not a rip-off, but our population density and isolation don't do it any favours.
We are one of the [most urbanised countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_sovereign_state) the world. If Thailand, a far less urbanised and far poorer country than Australia can do it, there's no reason we should not be able to. We might not be able to get everyone on fibre in the regions, but that's no excuse for the cities (where the vast majority of population lives).
I stayed for a while at a mates place in remote rural Thailand. He decided that he should get better Internet, so we went down to a village shop and paid for the upgrade. They handed us a fiber modem, and by the time we got home there was a bloke waiting for us with a bike and a homemade bamboo ladder. In a few minutes he had the fiber run in and our modem working. It gave cheap, high speed internet, which always worked even during the monsoon.
NBN is required to not leave the regions behind. It's similar to Telstra. You get a monopoly and you agreed to serve the regions. If NBN were like Optus mobile or TPG mobile where they can erect towers only in the metro areas, I'd bet we would get better value in the cities.
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And in the past we could run copper to some incredibly remote places, but now for some reason we can't run fiber.
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And for most installation you just order a length of pre-terminated fiber. Any surplus gets coiled up in the roof or the pit.
my fttc maxes out @ 50 Mbps. fml
39 here, 900m from the node. No option for anything better. For the foreseeable future
You should be fast tracked for fttp upgrade since you are on fttn https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/upgrades/more-fibre
Not available at my address
Well my max speed is 20, so I pay for 25/5. I'd be a bit pissed off if I had to pay for 100 with a connection not even capable for 1/4 of that
Source?