The NBN was still only an idea when Patrick Cheah moved into his home. A decade later he still can’t connect. But he’s no longer waiting.
Mr Cheah estimates he’s 600 to 800 metres from the nearest tower and, although he might have faster speeds closer to the connection point, he’s not complaining.The supplied modem makes it easy to set up your new home network, and a lack of excessive cables means you can move it around your house to find the strongest connection for you.
Mr Cheah, who loves gaming with his daughter, has experienced issues with latency, the lag time between sending data from a gaming device to the server and back. He added the latency had improved since he first set up the network, and the difference could in fact be a “psychological thing”. “One thing about gaming is: whenever I turn on the PS4 , new games have a lot of patches. When I’m sitting down waiting for the patch, it was incredibly fast, 10 times faster than before, which is a great experience,” he said.
He has no regrets bypassing the NBN and adopting 5G, and neither have several neighbours he’s talked into doing the same after acting as a guinea pig.
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