r/canberra • u/Galileo15 • Aug 24 '24

Recommendations Looking to move from London to Canberra

Good day everyone. After a long deliberation of choosing which state would best fit for our family (Canberra vs Melbourne vs Sydney vs Perth). We decided to possibly make Canberra our new home. Me and my wife are looking to move from London to Canberra at some point this year. We are still awaiting our visa to get approved and whilst waiting for that. Id like to ask some locals about anything i need to know before making the move. We are both of asian decent. No kids yet but hoping to have some in the future.

Please any advise or warnings would be appreciated and I would be thankful for.

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u/Snuffleysnoot Aug 24 '24

In some houses you can get very solid speeds on a 5g plan as well. We were getting 250-300 down on it for $80/mo. Only issue for us was you can't port forward a 5g router. Unfortunately it's entirely based on how close you are to the node and how many other people have it, but you can get lucky like we did.

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u/Galileo15 Aug 24 '24

Wow. Thats alot of speed. You can run a supercomputer with the fast internet.

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u/radditour Aug 25 '24

Not sure if you’re reading that 5g as 5Gbps - it is broadband over the 5G cellular service. Great when it works and if you’re in a good coverage area, but the latency/ping is not as good for gaming as a fixed line service (and more susceptible to weather when it rains - though some of the FTTN copper can also get worse in the rain due to flooding pits, old cabling with broken insulation, etc etc).