National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

My sister was one of the first mainland connections ( Wilunga, SA ). Made a frightful mess of her garden, she was given no choice but to have it installed. Her internet is fine for what she needs, couldn't tell you about speeds. But: Her phone has been so bad I got her nearly $3000 credit under Telstra's customer service guarantee. I had a direct line to a Telstra service rep's mobile. Now, after how ever many years since, the phone is still rubbish.
Now, where I live, a number of ISPs still don't have ADSL2, I have to have a dish if I want Foxtel, and I'm only 35 K from the CBD. There is no sign of the NBN coming here any time soon, and it will probably be a dish when it does. As far as I'm concerned the whole thing is a poor joke.

Well, after hearing all the horror stories about swapping over to the NBN, I decided to bite the bullet and JUST DO IT.:D No problems at all the changeover went smoothly and I don't see much difference in the speed (maybe a little faster) but the loading up is snappier, so far after twenty minutes on the NBN, very happy.:D:D
ps. I was on ADSL2 before.

I just signed up.

I am in "Regional NSW". the only thing i can get is FTTN, with a max available download/upload speed of 25/5Mbps. Literally 10 houses down the road and they have have FTTH with a max of 100/40Mbps.

even though im 2 mins from the main part of town which has had ADSL2 for aaaaages the best i have been able to get here is ADSL+ with speeds of 8/1Mbps theoretical. Actual speeds are more like 1/0.1... all this for only $80/month!!

So I've just signed up for 25/5 NBN for $50. Even if it's the same crappy speed, at least its cheaper. And hopefully it doesn't drop out as much.

Cheers

Dan

I'm 5 Ks from the GPO. There's no sign that I'll be getting it any time soon.:(

Hi Dan,

Are you on friendly terms with the 10th house down the road?

You could set up a small wireless network between your house and theirs and go halves in thier FTTH NBN!

silly me,, I was waiting for the green/blue cable to be pulled past the house,,,,
no such luck! down the cross street 100 yards away to wherever the nearest node(are these visible or in a pit?) is,,
only a 7 day wait on connection due to the house using a Medical Alert box

The connection point to the yellow/blue/green fluorescent cable is in the pit.
Not necessarily the nearest pit.

I know of a school (not mine) which is suffering under download speeds of just 1 mbs. There is NBN to a house in the street, the school is willing to pay any reasonable charge, but NBN is refusing to co-operate. You would think schools would get priority for Internet upgrades in a supposedly clever country, but apparently not so.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I know of a school (not mine) which is suffering under download speeds of just 1 mbs. There is NBN to a house in the street, the school is willing to pay any reasonable charge, but NBN is refusing to co-operate. You would think schools would get priority for Internet upgrades in a supposedly clever country, but apparently not so.

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Sounds slightly odd. Is the school in a difficult to install area with steep slopes or long runs?

A local school here was in a similar predicament and ended up paying a sum (around 3k if what I was told is correct) to get the install done outside of the schedule. However that was in a flat area with about 100 meters from the previous schedules finishing property. I will ask the people involved to get the specific terminology that needs to be requested

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Originally Posted by johntins

My sister was one of the first mainland connections ( Wilunga, SA ). Made a frightful mess of her garden, she was given no choice but to have it installed. Her internet is fine for what she needs, couldn't tell you about speeds. But: Her phone has been so bad I got her nearly $3000 credit under Telstra's customer service guarantee. I had a direct line to a Telstra service rep's mobile. Now, after how ever many years since, the phone is still rubbish.
Now, where I live, a number of ISPs still don't have ADSL2, I have to have a dish if I want Foxtel, and I'm only 35 K from the CBD. There is no sign of the NBN coming here any time soon, and it will probably be a dish when it does. As far as I'm concerned the whole thing is a poor joke.

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Build is "planned" to begin 1st half 2018 and ready for service 2nd half 2018:

https://www.finder.com.au/nbn-tracker/sa/3BEL