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Experience with Optus 4G wireless broadband

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Some background, where I try not to gripe about NBN... O NBN!, wherefore art thou NBN! That pretty much sums up my experience over the last year, having relocated from Sydney with a decent NBN connection, to an ADSL1 connection in the Gold Coast. I was then left waiting for either an ADSL2 port to free up (not likely to happen) or NBN to finally arrive. NBN was expected here in Dec-18 and is now due in Dec-19.... So with NBN delayed another year, I was well and truly over my current connection. For the record I had 6 Mbps download and 0.3 Mbps upload. So uploading a picture to facebook would kill my internet. It's hard to believe this can be sold in Australia as an adequate service.... right not griping, moving on. Thankfully this is all behind me with the introduction of Optus's 4G wireless broadband plans, which were released in November 2018 replacing the Vividwireless service. Based on our usage of around 380 GB per month, I selected the the $80 500 GB plan. The