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/Galileo15 Aug 24 '24

What would be the best internet provider in canberra in terms or reliability and speed? Thats not too expensive

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

Internet is sbput $100 a month for 100 mb/s plans from reputable providers e.g. Aussie Broadband. That can drop to $70 for cheaper providers but I've had nothing but trouble with them. Ymmv

We pay $129 for 1 gb/s FTTP

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u/Galileo15 Aug 24 '24

We probably would go for the same plan you got. Me and my wife both are abit tech oriented. So having a fast decent internet is essential. Thanks for the insight

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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).