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

[KISSMAD (Bruce)]

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-i...speeds-in-2025

[sharkbite]

Originally Posted by KISSMAD

https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-i...speeds-in-2025

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 (Nik)]

Originally Posted by 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....

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

[JohnA (John)]

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]

Originally Posted by JohnA

yep you notice it if downloading or uploading (more so uploading)

...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