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NBN for home and home office

Andrew Woodward, Bellingen CoWorking, 12 February 2019

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Internet delivery

Now and past

• Telstra ADSL
• Telco 4G
• Some NBN products

Future

• NBN Fibre to curb
• NBN Fixed wireless
• NBN Sky Muster (satellite)
• Telco 4G

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Who gets what

Fibre to curb

• 80 percent Bellingen township
• All of Dorrigo

Fibre to node

• Urunga
• Raleigh
• Mylestom and Repton

Fixed wireless (4G)

• 20 percent Bellingen township
• Fernmount
• Semi rural

Satellite

• Rural

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https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/learn/rollout-map

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What’s changed?

• Previously one provider in Bellingen - Telstra*
• You got a modem from Telstra
• You had a problem - you called Telstra
• Telstra managed the line from the exchange to your house
• Locked into a contract

*yes you could have anyone but Telstra charged them rent making them unviable.

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And now

• NBN owns the line to your house
• NBN provides a modem
• You choose a retailer
• You provide the router and this is connected to the NBN modem
• You can use your existing router or a router provided by your retailer
• You have no relationship with NBN - you deal with your retailer
• You can go month by month

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How retailing works

• They all use the same line and feed off the NBN supplied modem
• ‘Anyone’ can be a retailer
• All of the ‘big names’ retail - Telstra, Optus, TPG, iiNet, etc
• Retailers buy data at certain speeds from NBN
• If they don’t buy enough data, the speeds they can offer will be slower

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Two key terms

Download and upload speeds - bits

• Mbps - Mega bits per second

Download and upload amounts of data or file size - bytes

• MB - Megabyte - one million bytes* (3 MB - photo on camera, 30 MB - 1 hour ABC radio)
• GB - Gigabyte - one billion bytes* (2 GB - MS Office for Mac, 6 GB - Netflix HD 2 hour

movie)

• TB - Terabyte - one trillion bytes* (family of six for a month)
• Your phone, tablet or computer hard drive might be 120 GB, 240 GB, 500GB or 1TB

* roughly (see https://kb.iu.edu/d/ackw) ** 8 bits of data to equal 1 byte

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What you need to think about

• How much your internet will be used and when (what speed?)
• Whether you want to keep a home phone and your home phone number
• Who you want to go with, that is, the retailer
• Which, if any, extras you want (like Foxtel)
• Can you get any “bundle” discounts from existing mobile operators
• What equipment do you have, eg 4K TV or Apple TV 4K

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Retailers

• 150 plus retailers
• Big names - Telstra, Optus, TPG, iiNet, dodo
• New entrants
• Popular review sites - Canstar and Whistleout
• Avoid iSelect
• Will charge set-up fee or modem cost

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Biggest decision - speed

https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Guides/what-nbn-speed-do-you-need

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Commentary on speeds

• Basic - avoid
• Standard - OK for small household and standard streaming (similar to

Telstra ADSL in Bellingen now)

• Standard plus - recommended for larger households, streaming, medium

size file transfers (up to 100 mb) and video conferencing

• Premium - for larger households, large file transfers (+ 100 mb) and

video conferencing

• Note - If streaming to 4K TV or Apple TV, I recommend Premium

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Price

• Basic - $30 to $50 a month, most capped at 100 gb
• Standard - $50 to $65 a month, 500 gb to unlimited
• Standard plus - $60 to $90, unlimited
• Premium - $70 to $120, unlimited

https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Guides/best-australian-nbn-plans

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https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Guides/fastest-nbn-providers-and-plans-accc

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https://www.canstarblue.com.au/internet/nbn-providers/

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My case study

• Small household, stream, geek-out
• Some small to mid file uploads and downloads
• Some video conferencing
• Currently with Telstra ADSL2+ at $90 a month
• Mobile is currently with Optus
• Already have a wireless router (Apple Airport)
• Don’t need a home phone number

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My decision

• Belong at $65 a month (12 month contract) or $70 month to month. $0

upfront, $0 activation

• NBN Standard Plus, unlimited (30 Mbps to 50 Mbps)
• Been with them before, good service, owned by Telstra
• Call centre in Australia
• Will consider Optus for $70 a month (24 month contract or month-to-

month with $200 set-up). Will drop to $60 with mobile discount.

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One more thing

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https://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/mobile-broadband/netgear-ac800s https://offer.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/mobile-broadband/huawei-b525-wifi

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Links

Retailers

• https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/service-providers

Whistleout

• https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Guides/best-australian-nbn-

plans Canstar

• https://www.canstarblue.com.au/internet/nbn-providers/

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NBN for home and home office

Andrew Woodward, Bellingen CoWorking, 12 February 2019