I'm sure shopping around would yield a better price for fibre if what you were paying was too expensive - and it would be way more reliable than wireless.
Yes it might be okay now, but what about during the school holidays (for example)?
My question wasn't answered though - does anyone know if Spark still TAC locks their SIMs for FWA? I believe this was the case previously but am not sure if they do anymore.
And to people wondering why I tried it: if you already have Netflix, the total effective cost for the connection came out to around $30~ a month. I could reliably get 800/60 Mbps speeds and around 30ms latency throughout the day. As I don't really care about upload and had previously been on gigabit fibre, for me the experience was very similar to fibre.
I'd say 99% of people probably wouldn't face the issues that I did if they just used built-in Wi-Fi router and didn't use bridging mode, etc. I don't think it's a bad product at all (nor is the network) - it's a fantastic product actually. It's just a shame that the CPE let down the whole experience really but it is ultimately a consumer router.
I'm sure shopping around would yield a better price for fibre if what you were paying was too expensive - and it would be way more reliable than wireless.
Not possible to be anyway. I was already getting, and have now gone back to, 2degrees wholesale fibre pricing. Even at cost price, it's still around 3x more expensive than FWA (which is still around 30% cheaper than mass market in any case but that's not really the point).
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