NBN is Australia's National Broadband Network offering speeds of up to 100Mb/s, in this video we take you through all the different deals out there. How to setup a FTTP connection at home yourself using your own router, and most importantly, why we went with Mate Communicate and our experience with them.

DEALS
Get $50 Off Aussie Broadband: https://aussiebroadband.com.au/nbnsi...

WHERE TO BUY
TPLink VR2600 Router: https://vtudio.com/a/?a=TPLink+VR2600
RJ45 Cable: https://vtudio.com/a/?a=rj45+cat6

FOR MORE TECH TIPS
https:/   / headsoftech  

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COMPARISON OVERVIEW
Telstra Capped service
MyNetFone Brand issues
SpinTel Capped service
dodo Poor reviews
TPG Poor reviews
Mate Communicate 4.4/5 star reviews
AusBBS Good deal, but poor website and comms
MyRepublic Great deal but average reviews

EXPERIENCES
Please note, all experiences listed below have been taken directly from the comments section below and have not been personally vetted. The only one I can speak for is my personal experience.
To help, I've included a ** in the questionable statements as they seem a bit dubious and may be from sponsored agents.

Mates FTTP Getting 591Mb/s on the 100/40 plan Cairoloves
iinet FTTN Getting 65Mb/s on the 100/40 plan Another Skywalker
Optus Cable Getting 8/0.6Mb/s on the 100/2 plan Mewth16
Spintel NBN Getting 5.3Mb/s on the Basic plan Doctor Thomas
Telstra Cable Getting 35Mb/s on the 200gb plan kolray25
**Telstra Getting 99MB/s on FTTN Paul Diaz
Optus Getting 43.3/18.8 Mb/s on 50/20
**Aussie Broadband Getting 90100Mbs on the 100/40 HFC plan Electronic Shaman
Aussie Broadband Getting 97Mbs on the 100/40 plan StoneyF1

MATE COMMUNICATE INITIAL IMPRESSIONS
When signing up the only hidden charge was the $300 hit for installing NBN in a new build. I've heard that Telstra salespeople offer to waive the charge if you sign up for a 24 month deal with them, but with Mates, as their package is month to month, refused to compromise. Furthermore, as NBN hadn't been used in our flat before, setup was a bit confusing as we didn't realise that there was a router inside our apartment already, but after a bit of googling you just plugged the RJ45 cable into the NBN router and connected it to your own router. If you're going with a BYOM solution, you'll of course need your own RJ45 connector.

Once it was up and running we've been hitting a solid down and upstream, which was GREAT coming from an ADSL background.

MATE COMMUNICATE AFTER 6 MONTHS
We've been using Mates for over 7 months now. Initially the service was superfast, but after the 4 month mark, things started to feel slower. I've done some further testing and it seems that when pinging servers in the UK during peak hours I now get around 5MB/s, and servers in America get me 30MB/s, but servers in Australia are still 90+MB/s, so it's not all bad. The issue could be that perhaps more units in my block might have also upgraded to NBN or they too do the nasty on you and degrade your service after 4 months. But either way, they're still charging me $99 per month while my service has degraded. It's disappointing, but on the positives we're on a month by month contract so switching will be easy. Hey, I might even try the whole ADSL route to see how it compares to NBN, so if anyone has any recommendations please let me know.

FILMING TOOLS
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MUSIC
United We Groove by Audionautix

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