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NBNCO - Gointocarlton - 03-08-2018
Can these DH's just turn up unannounced when youre not home and just install a box wherever they want?
Re: NBNCO - deepbluesee - 03-08-2018
They sure can - and they do. The initial connection is just to the outside of the house - nobody needs to be home (other than maybe gates/dogs etc)
Re: NBNCO - DJC - 03-08-2018
According to the NBN website, my place is "ready to connect to an NBN powered plan". This is despite our property being rural and no sign of any infrastructure works within 20km of our area. Well, that's not entirely true; I do see a NBN ute parked outside a house when I drive through Ocean Grove.
Our current internet connection is dodgy at best, but without improved infrastructure, be it fibre to the node or Malcolm's 100mbps connection on the hybrid fibre coaxial network, there's no benefit in signing up to an imaginary NBN.
Re: NBNCO - cookie2 - 03-08-2018
I'm certainly in no hurry to go NBN as our current service is OK for my needs. NBN will be available to us next year if you can believe the blurb and as I understand it the move is pretty much forced upon you? Anyway, another box to be added to the current collection on the outside wall of my study I guess. More boxes than Visy.
Re: NBNCO - LP - 03-08-2018
I've only ever had one problem, after about a year the fibre failed because of a kink somewhere out in the street side, they fixed it within 48hrs.
Other than that NBN wise I've had no problems, I have the full setup, backup battery, fibre phone, and 100Mbps. So other than the one incident we never lose an internet connection because of the NBN, if there are problems it's always related to one of the ISPs having a problem.
I notice our NBN modem has the Telstra Air Hotspot enabled, people with Telstra accounts can use a direct WiFi connection to the NBN modem without using our bandwidth. Apparently this is now standard practice for all FTTP connections that have Fibre Phone enabled. Our mobiles are mostly Telstra, so if our ISP has a problem our mobiles hotspot to the Telstra Air connection which runs off the backup battery.
By the way, if you get FTTP then pay the upfront free to be uncontracted, you can mix and match phone and internet providers to get the best deal. It doesn't all have to be with the one provider, it was a big saving for me because we have multiple phone lines.
One thing, the bandwidth is variable, in the evening when everyone is streaming you will find the connection speed drops but it's rarely below 45mbps and usually sits around 70Mbps which is still at least six times faster than my old connection. At low demand time it averages up around 90Mbps.
Re: NBNCO - dodge - 03-09-2018
Congrats on getting in when the going was as it was intended. I currently have cable and get about 35mbs 24/7. Our NBN connection will be through HFC, which has already been stuffed up, so we are no longer NBN ready.
The other HFC joke is that current plans show a slower (and not guaranteed) speed for what we are paying now or even a bit more. I will be changing over at the last possible second.
Ever since it was changed from fttp to fttn it has and will continue to be a joke, farce and detriment to our country.
Re: NBNCO - LP - 03-10-2018
Technically there is no reason why HFC cannot be gigabit rates, the reason is the very short cable runs from the fibre node. The limits placed on it are artificial, more to do with ISP provisioning than anything else.
While fibre could be multi-gigbit rates, it's unlikely anyone really sees a benefit as the server side will never have the bandwidth to deliver gigabit rates to many users.
The thing that I cannot understand, is why is 4G and 5G wireless so expensive here? It rubbish, it's the cheapest roll-out option for the telcos and yet they charge the most!
Re: NBNCO - laj - 03-10-2018
(03-08-2018, 11:32 AM)DJC link Wrote:According to the NBN website, my place is "ready to connect to an NBN powered plan". This is despite our property being rural and no sign of any infrastructure works within 20km of our area. Well, that's not entirely true; I do see a NBN ute parked outside a house when I drive through Ocean Grove.
Our current internet connection is dodgy at best, but without improved infrastructure, be it fibre to the node or Malcolm's 100mbps connection on the hybrid fibre coaxial network, there's no benefit in signing up to an imaginary NBN.
You live near Geelong?
I'm with iiNet with their "Rocketfast Cable". Because that's fast broadband I don't have to get the NBN.
Re: NBNCO - madbluboy - 03-10-2018
Our old telstra ADSL 2 speedtested at 3 mb/s.
Our new TPG NBN is usually 95mb/s +
Re: NBNCO - Gointocarlton - 03-10-2018
My Optus cable is always in the 80s and 90s