NBN - Good or Bad

[Deliverance]

I assume this means price rises coming for those on the NBN.

NBN reports rise in revenue as regional broadband tax passes Senate

NBN Co has reported a surge in revenue amid unprecedented demand, while the federal government's regional broadband tax passed the Senate.

thenewdaily.com.au

 

[TradeDraft]

I assume this means price rises coming for those on the NBN.

NBN reports rise in revenue as regional broadband tax passes Senate

NBN Co has reported a surge in revenue amid unprecedented demand, while the federal government's regional broadband tax passed the Senate.

thenewdaily.com.au

Like Everything.

 

[Gigantic]

Two million homes to get access to NBN fibre-to-the-home in $3.5b plan

A new fibre rollout is tipped to create 25,000 jobs and start within months, with two million eligible premises able to demand fibre-to-the-home.

www.smh.com.au

Hah! If only this wasn't the original proposal nearly a decade ago...

 

[Gralin]

Bit of a nothing announcement

Still going to be a tiered system and no mention of what the costs for people that want to get that upgrade to FTTP will be, and not everyone will get that

So they are going to put more money into the shitty HFC and FTTN and FTTC programs as well

meh

 

[Hawk Dork]

Bit of a nothing announcement

Still going to be a tiered system and no mention of what the costs for people that want to get that upgrade to FTTP will be, and not everyone will get that

So they are going to put more money into the shitty HFC and FTTN and FTTC programs as well

meh

Seems to be instead of charging a few g upfront to run the fibre to your place, they put you on a contract to get the few g out of you .
NBN Afterpay

 

[Gigantic]

Ad hoc rollouts is a head scratcher... what's their strategy there?

They just seem to want to keep making this as slow and expensive as possible

 

[Spirit Level]

Imagine rolling out a sub-standard national infrastructure project and then make the citizens pay to bring it up to standard

 

[Pessimistic]

C0alition NBN, 6 year obsolesence, which everyone but them knew anyway

People talk about them living in the 1950s, but even those guys had 'vision' (although the bar is quite low here)

 

[Gigantic]

I'm moving out of my place in the next month anyway, but at my current address I'm still on ADSL 2+ and running a spanking

 

[Hawk Dork]

Now Rupert is selling product on line the need to hobble it isnt politically necessary
Making it user pay ensures the aspirational voters are happy

 

[Hawk Dork]

The new Gas plan is the copper network NBN of the future
Suppose they cant have 2 white elephants running at the same time it might give people the idea they cant infrastructure

 

[phantom13]

We had to switch over yesterday. Gotta be honest, the process was simple (got a box and modem mailed out, plug and play, no loss of service) and our internet is 100% better now.

 

[NSWCROW]

To say i'm livid about this entire situation is the understatement of 2020

 

[GreyCrow]

Ad hoc rollouts is a head scratcher... what's their strategy there?

They just seem to want to keep making this as slow and expensive as possible

Keeping people employed

Its State Infrastructure Management at a Federal level

 

[Gralin]

So NBN came out during the week to connect me to FTTC
Tech plugged the modem in and it synced up

Today I go to move my connection across and have to unplug the modem from power to re run the cable because he had it coming out the front of my tv unit instead of going round the back

Of course the modem won't reconnect and I've had to log a fault and have to wait for them to come back sometime during the week

 

[Crusey]

Cant imagine there is a fault if it was working before you moved the cable

Who is your provider and what cable are you referring to ?

FTTC install will have 2 devices, first one is the NBN NCD which plugs into the wall socket

The NBN NCD then connects to your Router with a Standard Ethernet Cable, pretty easy to fault find if you want me to talk you through it

 

[Gralin]

Cant imagine there is a fault if it was working before you moved the cable

Who is your provider and what cable are you referring to ?

FTTC install will have 2 devices, first one is the NBN NCD which plugs into the wall socket

The NBN NCD then connects to your Router with a Standard Ethernet Cable, pretty easy to fault find if you want me to talk you through it

I unplugged the power cable to run it behind my unit instead of having it hang down the front.

When I plugged it back in the NCD wouldn't connect just stuck between connection light flashing blue and connection light switching off for a few seconds.
NCD clicks every time it restarts the cycle.
So it's not getting to the point where the DSL light comes up

 

[Gralin]

Well only had to wait 10 days for them to come out and work out that they hadn't fitted the wall socket off properly and that the connection behind the plate was loose

 

[juss]

Well after an absolute cockery mine is finally working. 48 hours after the tech came. The product is great now it's working but it was a nightmare to set-up with my ISP and the tech had to replace the box and its cost me a new router.

 

[Deliverance]

I'm enjoying 4g. Don't think I'll switch to 5g just yet.