View Poll Results: Which tech do you have ?
FTTP - Fibre baby, the good stuff
7
28.00%
HFC - it's fibre, but ...
1
4.00%
FTTN - the Trunbull special
2
8.00%
FTTC - better than FTTN
1
4.00%
Mobile Broadband - feel the money burn
2
8.00%
ADSL, still
12
48.00%
I'm a luddite.
0
0%
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So who's on the NBN?
#1
So who's on the NBN?
Who has been moved to the NBN, what technology, which provider, and how's it working out?
#2
Re: So who's on the NBN?
According to the website we're not due to be done until about this time next year. Roads about three minutes away were done a while ago.
#3
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: So who's on the NBN?
I thought my area was next year, but locals are claiming they have NBN.
#4
Re: So who's on the NBN?
As mentioned before
NBN MTM Alpha
is useful for working out what you will get, and the NBN site will give an idea of when.
I wondered how many had yet moved, since progress seems slow.
NBN MTM Alpha
is useful for working out what you will get, and the NBN site will give an idea of when.
I wondered how many had yet moved, since progress seems slow.
#5
Re: So who's on the NBN?
As mentioned before
NBN MTM Alpha
is useful for working out what you will get, and the NBN site will give an idea of when.
I wondered how many had yet moved, since progress seems slow.
NBN MTM Alpha
is useful for working out what you will get, and the NBN site will give an idea of when.
I wondered how many had yet moved, since progress seems slow.
#6
Re: So who's on the NBN?
I honestly haven't taken much notice of the whole thing other than to see when we'll maybe get it so I have no idea what the different 'options' on your poll and on the map mean. For example, there's a small very new estate in the middle of a nearby suburb that seems to be more special than its surrounding areas. What does it all mean?
If you click on individual houses you get more details on what each can get.
#7
Re: So who's on the NBN?
So how do houses those few roads get a better set up than all the houses around them? I don't understand how that works.
#9
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,375
Re: So who's on the NBN?
On a holiday property on the sunshine coast we have NBN with OPTUS.
Letter arrived telling us our area was being cut off that we MUST connect to NBN.
It is so painfully slow and at peak times often so bad as to be basically unresponsive.
It is an utter joke.
But even funnier after we connected OPTUS sent another letter saying original letter was incorrect and we do not need to switch.
The modum arrived 5 days after we were connected.
BTW the once connected all calls made from the home phone should you use it are CHARGED. Even local calls are no longer free.
The previous ADSL service was sketchy but better than this absolute nonsense.
Letter arrived telling us our area was being cut off that we MUST connect to NBN.
It is so painfully slow and at peak times often so bad as to be basically unresponsive.
It is an utter joke.
But even funnier after we connected OPTUS sent another letter saying original letter was incorrect and we do not need to switch.
The modum arrived 5 days after we were connected.
BTW the once connected all calls made from the home phone should you use it are CHARGED. Even local calls are no longer free.
The previous ADSL service was sketchy but better than this absolute nonsense.
#10
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: So who's on the NBN?
Money better spent elsewhere.
Garry thinks that traditional bad economic management of the Labor party is better for this country because he is too tight to splash out on fibre to his home.
Last edited by Beoz; Sep 25th 2017 at 8:43 pm.
#11
Re: So who's on the NBN?
Checked the website, and we're not due until April-June next year (and then we're getting Fibre to the Curb)
I suppose they may have been doing some kind of preparatory work. (Or, as usual, trying to figure out why the adsl signal is shite)
Areas 20 minutes away in one direction and 15 minutes away in the other direction have all been done.
I'm hopeful that when we do finally get it, they'll have ironed out all the issues.
#12
Re: So who's on the NBN?
Ahh, well there's your problem. Optus are an utter joke, and their network is massively overloaded. Avoid.
#13
Re: So who's on the NBN?
If they did it right and rolled out fibre to every home, then they would have a solution that worked today AND in 30 years, since the scope is there to carry much more data than 100Mbit. All the other are limited, and will need to be replaced (FTTN isn't fit today).
Oh, and Beoz, I'm the one in the survey WITH fibre ...
#14
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: So who's on the NBN?
Are you sure you aren't trunbull?
If they did it right and rolled out fibre to every home, then they would have a solution that worked today AND in 30 years, since the scope is there to carry much more data than 100Mbit. All the other are limited, and will need to be replaced (FTTN isn't fit today).
Oh, and Beoz, I'm the one in the survey WITH fibre ...
If they did it right and rolled out fibre to every home, then they would have a solution that worked today AND in 30 years, since the scope is there to carry much more data than 100Mbit. All the other are limited, and will need to be replaced (FTTN isn't fit today).
Oh, and Beoz, I'm the one in the survey WITH fibre ...
Now let me see. Considering 99.9% of properties do not need fibre to the home yet, that would not make economic sense.
Fibre to the street is being done. Over the next whatever years when our appetite for speed increases, it can be done. Stagger the cost. Make the money before you spend it.
You see these guys have the task of managing the countries money. If Labor were in power they would double (more likely quadruple) the cost of this thing adding more debt. But that's Labor for you. Lets give everyone the feel good factor that they have one of the fastest internets in the world, without actually needing it.
Way to go.
#15
Re: So who's on the NBN?
Or both.
It looks like NBNCo have both been pushing up the fibre costs to please their political masters (NBN are known to tell complete whoppers) and failing to employ better techniques that halve the cost of fibre (which also pleases their master).
Upshot is Australia could have fibre for ~$2500, only slightly more than doing a bodge job with old copper.
Why NBN Co's justifications for not rolling out fibre to the premises are misleading
Even worse, the cost of all the nodes, and powering those nodes, and replacing the naff old copper, is significant, both in upfront cost, extra time, and ongoing maintenance costs. Fibre has none of that. Oh, and because of the uniquely stupid way they are doing FTTN/FTTC its a rip and replace to fix it and move to all fibre.
All up, fibre makes the most economic sense. No question about it.
You see these guys have the task of managing the countries money. If Labor were in power they would double (more likely quadruple) the cost of this thing adding more debt. But that's Labor for you. Lets give everyone the feel good factor that they have one of the fastest internets in the world, without actually needing it.