With the introduction of 2000Mbit consumer NBN plans this time last week, I thought it was time to start sharing our experiences with home networks beyond gigabit.
Has anyone upgraded to the new plans and got the new NBN NTD with the 2.5GbE port on the back, or the fancy new four port FTTP NTD with the 10GbE port? If so, what are you using on your local LAN for routing and switching?
Is anyone using any decent value 2.5GbE/5GbE/10GbE gear that they’d recommend, or using LACP links in their homelabs, to/from NASes, etc.?
I’m very slowly upgrading to 10GbE as I go (using DAC SFP+ and Intel X520 cards), and am currently looking at a few options to meet somewhere in the middle with 2.5GbE or 5GbE for client machines. The dual port X520 (82599ES) has been a mild pain to get working on Linux - only one port ever seems to work at any given time, and I haven’t gone too far down the rabbit hole of fixing it yet as I only need one port for now (and my use case is more to play around with it than to use full 10 gigabit of bandwidth).
Not as high tech as @Belfry but I got an email from Aussie Broadband last week saying I had received a free upgrade to 500 Mbps download.
Whan I checked the speed test (see below) it showed I had got my new upload speed but the download was unchanged. After following their suggestion of turning it off and on again it doubled but still far below their theoretical 500Mbps.
On 9/18/25 20:39, Aussie Broadband wrote:
As a reminder, you do not need to do anything, your new plan will kick in from today, 15 September.
If you’re having trouble getting the new speeds, you may need to turn your devices off and on again.
Current plan: NBN Fast 100Mbps/20Mbps Unlimited ($95.00)
New plan: NBN Fast 500Mbps/50Mbps Unlimited ($95.00)
Any QoS settings in your router? That bit someone I knew last week - they’d previously had 100Mbit, got upgraded to 500Mbit, but still had long forgotten QoS settings in their router suited to 100Mbit.
I want to take advantage of it. I currently have a 250/250 NBN EE (Enterprise Ethernet) link directly into the garage. When I look stuff up online I’m only ever offered FTTC (Curb) so I need to work that out. I’d love to switch to a 2Gbit link, even a consumer one with no guarantees. The same 2Gbit on NBN EE would also be 2Gbit up but would cost $700-800/month.
Glad you got it sorted, @zeeclor! It’s nice to have the upgrade without the extra price.
Hopefully there’s a free FTTP pathway for you soon, if there isn’t one in your area already. I’m helping a family member (outside SE Qld) navigate this at the moment, and it looks like it’ll be free as long as they stay for 12 months. The first piece of the puzzle will be getting structured cabling sorted and having a bit of conduit with a bit of rope ready to go, so that the NBN installer can plonk the FTTP NTU exactly where it “should live” and not where it’s convenient for them to install!
I’m on 500Mbit as of last week too, and that’s a reasonable balance between cost vs. performance at this stage. I’ve been on 1000 before and am curious to try out 2000, but will continue upgrading the internal network before forking out to try 2000.
I agree. I’m not familiar with those sorts of specifics to do with EE, but it makes sense that if the infrastructure is there, it should be able to be used. Launtel and Aussie Broadband have both been useful in the past with a few oddities like that - it may be worth chatting to them to see whether there’s a way to change the service class for your address given that the EE infrastructure is already in place?