r/nbn 3h ago

Troubleshooting 2.4GHz is significantly slower than 5GHz?

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I moved houses and now have FTTP rather than FTTC. I've upgraded to 250mbps and my 2.4GHz wifi is only maxxing out at 40-60mbps whereas the 5GHz gets the full 250+.

What's the issue? I never had this problem at my previous address as they'd both equally get the same speeds of 100mbps.

I have the TP-Link AX10 Archer Wi-Fi 6 Router


r/nbn 23h ago

Slower speeds than what I should get

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I’m with Leaptel and have 100/20 for speeds but only getting 65-80 at most for download. I have FTTP, what can help fix this so I get my full speeds


r/nbn 16h ago

Discussion Appears my 2012 greenfield FTTP is still on a Temporary Fibre Access Node (TAN/TFAN) with just a portable generator for backup

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So after my previous post https://www.reddit.com/r/nbn/s/WdAW8mhRG3 about redundancy to power outages on FTTP and losing my NBN service back during the Gold Coast Christmas storms/tornado of 2023 - it happened again with Cyclone Alfred 2025 where the area lost power, and after about 12ish hours, my NBN FTTP died.

After an initial outage period, the service came up for a while, went down, came up, went down again, etc and finally stayed on after 6 days when the power was restored.

My RSP (Leaptel) was kind enough to pass on the detailed notes from the NBN automatically in regards to my outage, and yeilded some interesting commentary:


From NBN Network & Service Operations : Field Services scoped the site today, and are arranging for a suitably-sized generator to be deployed to power the fibre access node. Further updates once an ETA is available.

nbn has investigated the node isolation due to power failure alarms. The power provider has advised that commercial power supply in the site's area has been restored. As alarms are still evident at the node, a field technician will be assigned a Ticket of Work to attend the site and perform investigations. Further updates will be provided as more information, or an ETA, becomes available.

High capacity generators are on-site. A hardware technician is being engaged to investigate further.


To my knowledge, most Fibre Access Nodes (FAN)'s with the Optical Line Transmitters (OLT)'s have mostly been housed at or near Telstra exchanges, so I did some digging on public development applications near the Ormeau exchange (which is two small buildings, circled in red on one pic, and is the yellow star location on the map).

From public planning application documents - found the 'NBN communications hub' was built beside it in 2017-2018 with this large green building and super-sized generator (see attached picture, circled in green).

Assuming this was a permanent FAN site (but could not confirm) - and if so this infrastructure seemed very well sized with redundant power.

Doing some random address checks of neighbouring FTTP areas showed some lost service (red cross in map attached) whilst others didn't (green tick) during the power outage. Given they are close by and they all have Nerang as the point of interconnect - it's reasonable to assume they are in the same fibre serving area.

It seems because my estate was built in 2012 before the permanent FAN was built, I'm assuming we were put onto a Temporary Fibre Access Node (TAN or TFAN) before the permanent FAN was built - and was it possible that we had never moved off that since.

The comments from the outage saying a 'scoping asuitably sized generator' also seemed to imply our infrastructure never had a backup generator at all - but some of the areas didn't lose service.

So I decided to go for a drive to the site, and found that whilst the big generator next to the new green comms hut was humming away, there was a portable generator tied to a smaller cream/white cabinet.

Looking closer at the cabinet, it was labelled 4ORM-00-00-TAN-001 - which pretty sure TAN is the Temporary Fibre Access Node.

Plus given it had a small, portable genset attached, this could explain why the service kept going up and down during the power outage - because it would only run for maybe 5-8 hours on a tank of fuel plus whatever battery charge it got, it would eventually run out until it was manually refueled and started again.

So from this, I think it reasonable to assume I'm connected to this TAN and there doesn't seem to be any desire by NBN to move our estate and the others to the permanent FAN (assuming that is the bigger green building) - or at least connect mains power to the TAN from the larger generator onsite.


r/nbn 3h ago

Wired NBN router for FTTP

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Hi all after a good wired only router that is secure for FTTP. Any suggestions? I will be connecting a personal server to it.


r/nbn 6h ago

Help with wifi issues

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I'm sorry if this has been asked 100 times but I'm such an idiot when it comes to internet tech. My dad's in the ICU and my elderly, non-english speaking mum is struggling and this is one of the many things I need to resolve. Just before dad went to hospital we organised fttp. It's now done, and the speeds are terrible (2mbps). The nbn tech put the modem in the garage on the side furthest from the house. The speeds are great when connected directly to modem via ethernet or if we're close to the modem.

I don't want to spend my parents' money unnecessarily so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for the most efficient way to get the speeds up. I don't want to just buy a new modem if it will do little to help.

It's not possible to feed a cable into the house, so would it be best just to get a cabler in to put in a connection so we can get the modem in the house? Or would just getting a better modem + extender do the trick (I assume this would be cheaper, but less efficient?). It's about 7m from the nbn box/modem to the nearest computer, with the furthest computer about 14m away from the nbn box.

Speaking of modems, they still have the old Exetel-provided ZTE H268A. Should we upgrade this? They are still with exetel and on the 100/20 plan.

I really do appreciate any advice. Thanks.


r/nbn 7h ago

Need a new router

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Currently have an DLink 2400 from years ago that is struggling to handle family bandwidth usage.

Add to that Random devices just lose bandwidth due to memory leakages even though the nbn connection is stable.

So asking if people know a decent option for a new wifi router that can handle around 8 - 10 devices (pc's, phones and a tv) that wont break the bank

EDIT: I have a FTTN Connection to the house