On 18.08.17 15:00, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
When Telstra discontinued dial-up, I had to move to a 4G broadband mobile modem, and pay for 4G when I only get 3g from the local mobile phone tower. Since that is about 500 meters by copper pair, it is well within ADSL range, but the equipment there is ISDN, no longer available, and voice and mobile phone. Now I pay $40 a month for 4Gig. Extortion.
That is scary, as I'm planning to build and move out to half way between Sale and Bairnsdale, and that's all that's on offer out there. ATM I have 30Gig/month for $29.95/month here in Melbourne. A tenfold price hike is horrific. ...
When the NBN is sorted, you should be offered a mobile broadband modem on the NBN, much like what you have, but there are too many reports of problems. Tony Abbot promised the NBN cheaper, sooner and fast enough. As a result of the changes, it will cost even more, be later and slower.
AIUI, a second "Sky Muster" satellite has been sent up, but I've not heard of rural NBN suddenly becoming acceptable. I don't see how satellite could ever provide the bandwidth for tens of thousands of video downloads. And microwave towers aren't much better. If there's fibre to the mobile tower, then I'm only a bit more than 1 k.m. across the paddocks. Nothing short of FTTH will solve it, I figure. Erik