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gravelc
Whereas next door in Australia many people struggle to get 25mbps with their FTTN connections. NZ really got their role out right.
LIV2
Unfortunately our government is very anti-technology and would like for all Australians to grow up to be coal miners instead of building a tech based economy.
ksec
I have heard from my friends in AUS, and he said there were lots of interest from Old Cables, Satellite, and TV companies to not want people with faster Internet where OTT will become the norm.

Not sure if this is true.

rasz
Afaik the Council deciding how to roll out NBN was headed by Telstra people.
paranoidrobot
I'm in an apartment with FTTP. I'm actually sitting right next to the ONT right now, it has 4x 1Gbit ethernet ports and the GPON is physically capable of delivering 2.4Gbit down, 1.2Gbit up.

However ordering anything above 100Mbit is so prohibitively expensive as to make it unavailable.

shardinator
10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.
y4mi
I just switched to gigabit. Not even my 200€ router (ubiquity ER-4) would be able to handle 10.

Though that's a nice problem to have

Youden
I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.
smcleod
Running PFSense on a device with an Intel 10Gbit NIC performs incredibly well and is certainly very affordable especially if you buy the NIC second hand
magicbuzz
I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.
[dead] Albertchrist
Enabling people with Internet is one of the most important to survive as a nation in this century.