You can get 100Mbit even, if the node happens to live in your front lawn. Problem is they're installing them up to a km away and only promising 25Mbit -- and lots of people aren't even getting that. There are people on 10 and less.
Also, why spend MORE on "Maybe 25mbit or up to 100" with no upgrade potential when you could install the fibre and have reliable gigabit right away? It makes no sense.
The NBN should be for the future, not for what's okay for most people today.
Imagine if we only had dialup now because that was all we needed 15 years ago. That's what the Liberals are doing to the NBN.
Are coaxial cable connections not available? These days, you can get 10/1 Gbps with DOCSIS 3.1 (although TWC in USA offers only 300 Mbps), and the standard seems to be improving still.
In some areas they are, but it's a minority of houses in Australia. Telstra and Optus have them.
NBN is decommissioning the Optus HFC network and replacing it with VDSL. Yes, I'm serious.
They're taking over and using the Telstra coaxial network, which should improve upload speeds, but they aren't planning to offer anything above 100Mbps (about 94 actual throughput) on it. They're replacing the DOCSIS 3.0 equipment, but with more DOCSIS 3.0 equipment.
Since Telstra's max plan goes about 115mbit, this is actually a downgrade in speed at my house. I'll be waving 20Mbit/s goodbye.
Only in some parts of my city at least. I'm lucky enough to have HFC to my house in Brisbane, it's expensive but it's a very consistent 35Mb/s down (the upload is barely 1.5Mb/s though).
Also, why spend MORE on "Maybe 25mbit or up to 100" with no upgrade potential when you could install the fibre and have reliable gigabit right away? It makes no sense.
The NBN should be for the future, not for what's okay for most people today.
Imagine if we only had dialup now because that was all we needed 15 years ago. That's what the Liberals are doing to the NBN.