Thread: National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

A lady friend of ours had the NBN connected today (she is 74) the guy doing the instalation wanted to lay the cable on top of her parth way & on top of the the ground through the garden . She told him no so he just loopes it from rafter to rafter on the cover over the parth ( no saddles or condute)
Wen he finished she asked if it was going to work & he said I dont know , if it doesnt ring up & they would send some one out to fix it.
I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A STUF UP
She relies on the internet to contact her sons who booth live in the US.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

A lady friend of ours had the NBN connected today (she is 74) the guy doing the instalation wanted to lay the cable on top of her parth way & on top of the the ground through the garden . She told him no so he just loopes it from rafter to rafter on the cover over the parth ( no saddles or condute)
Wen he finished she asked if it was going to work & he said I dont know , if it doesnt ring up & they would send some one out to fix it.
I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A STUF UP
She relies on the internet to contact her sons who booth live in the US.

As a qualified comms tech, that's disgraceful. Unfortunately though carrier's cabling doesn't have to conform to the same standards as customer cabling.

I think it was just the Telstra contractor being lazy hopping she wouldnt know or care. He probely gets payed for the number he connects in a day.
Here garden would have been quite easy , I do not know how they are going to go at our house , our front yard is all gardens with lots of trees & a number of storm water pipes , a power cable & water pipe . None of run were DBUD say they are.
Also if they think they are going to use the Fox cable it hasnt worked for over 20 years, when the tryed to hook us to cable internet about 3 years ago we had no internet for 6 months untill they put us back onto ADSL.

Telstra started connecting people in our area up to the NBN just before Christmas, since then they have started digging up foot paths in almost every second street.
They have started on the street that ours runs off this morning after spending the day yesterday testing. They seam to be digging up the whole section between one pit & the next . My guess is they have some major problems in out area. I am glad I cancelled my installation the day before Christmas, may have been with out phone & internet over Christmas.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Telstra started connecting people in our area up to the NBN just before Christmas, since then they have started digging up foot paths in almost every second street.
They have started on the street that ours runs off this morning after spending the day yesterday testing. They seam to be digging up the whole section between one pit & the next . My guess is they have some major problems in out area. I am glad I cancelled my installation the day before Christmas, may have been with out phone & internet over Christmas.

That's a common story. NBNCo run their fibre in Telstra conduits. The conduits can be quite old and crushed, broken or not there. Some of the Telstra cables are direct buried.
A mate had his fibre installed. The conduit ran under the neighbours new, expensive concrete driveway. The machines used to dig out for the concrete had crushed the conduit. They ended up laying new conduit from a pit further up the street. I doubt the neighbour would have been happy if they had cut his new, expensive, bluestone style concrete driveway.

Up here they're line boring all new conduits

Originally Posted by Tombie

Up here they're line boring all new conduits

Yep, directional drilling here too

Does anyone know how they connect a house to the FTTN setup? The cabinet is 2 houses away. I assume they splice the existing copper line into the cabinet, which is located pretty much next to an existing Telstra pit that my phone line runs through.