Telstra 5G Home Modem Excellent

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Telstra 5G Home Modem Used

The 5G service uses Telstra’s 5G mobile network instead of fixed-line services like NBN or fibre. As such it can reach vastly higher speeds than ordinary residential services, such as NBN’s fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) which still uses copper for the last leg to your premises. Conversely, it’s also subject to fluctuations from weather, mobile tower disruptions, heavy mobile data use in the area, and other issues. Of course, as a cellular service, it’s not affected in any way if someone fails to dial before they dig and tear up phone cables down the road.

Telstra says evening speeds can range from 50Mbps to 600Mbps meaning you can have ridiculously fast Internet or, at the worst end, you’re probably still better off than you would be on an NBN FTTN service. The one downside is fixed-line plans are moving towards unlimited data while this 5G service is capped at 1TB – that’s a marketing terabyte, not a Computer Science terabyte, meaning 1,000 megabytes.