NBN Co today launched a proposal to provide five times faster download speeds on its popular nbn Home Fast product, which would see wholesale download speeds accelerate from 100/20 Mbps to 500/50 Mbps1 at no extra wholesale cost to retailers.
It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
My understanding is that the gigabit tier is only available over FTTP… So why aren’t the speeds symmetric? Practically every other country that has gigabit fibre has symmetric speeds. With more and more people storing data “in the cloud”, upload speeds are more important than ever.
I live in the USA now and even the lowest speed tiers with ISPs offering fibre (300Mbps in my area) are symmetric.
Interesting… My mum couldn’t get it at her place for some reason. She’s with Optus and they said she’d have to wait for fiber to be installed to get the faster plans.
My understanding is that the gigabit tier is only available over FTTP… So why aren’t the speeds symmetric? Practically every other country that has gigabit fibre has symmetric speeds. With more and more people storing data “in the cloud”, upload speeds are more important than ever.
I live in the USA now and even the lowest speed tiers with ISPs offering fibre (300Mbps in my area) are symmetric.
1000/50 is available on HFC. I know because I have it.
Interesting… My mum couldn’t get it at her place for some reason. She’s with Optus and they said she’d have to wait for fiber to be installed to get the faster plans.
It’s not in all HFC areas unfortunately.
Artificial limitations to separate residential connections from business connections.
Also, the CVC system is partly to blame.