NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in Sep 2025

[KISSMAD]

In a few months I'll be connected to FTTP from FTTN. So I decided to look into it.

Some interesting reading. It's an old article but I only just found it.
https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/media-statements/higher-speed-tiers-multi-gigabit-speeds-in-2025

[sharkbite]

Great News, but i doubt any home user will notice the difference...

The biggest consumer of bandwidth is Video, which even at full HD only takes about 5 mbps per second...(i think 4k is about 25)

so unless you have more than 4 people streaming 4k from the same connection, 100mbps is plenty.

It's not like web browsing or anything else is going to get quicker....

[Nikolas]

Downloading and uploading large files at higher speeds is actually very noticeable however.

[JohnA]

yep you notice it if downloading or uploading (more so uploading)
General surfing you wont notice a change, but if you are an online gamer and have many people streaming at once, then you will benefit from it

I went from 100 to an 800 connection and even with these speeds, 2 of us streaming at the same time, there really isnt much difference

This is my current speeds

[bojan]

Will they drop the price for us no-gaming, mere mortals then?

I doubt it...

[sharkbite]

...as long as the other end has a similar speed and doesn't throttle you....
VPN can also get in the way...

Ps what sort of (ahem) large files are we talking here? ;-) ;-) nudge nudge