<div dir="ltr">Happy to report that the fibre installs in my SA neighbourhood are of a high standard.<div><div><br></div><div>As a older suburb that has mostly aerial lead-ins from PMG, there was some pressure on the contractors to perform all NBN installs above ground which is cheaper and easier. I had to demand the use of an existing underground lead-in, which was met with a vague warning of delays. It turns out that this was only 1 day extra.</div></div><div><br></div><div>A further oddity for SA is that the aerial fibre runs amongst the mains power cables, not in the designated telco space on SAPN poles.</div><div><br></div><div>I think "Doomed" is a little strong - I would reserve that description for the 50+ dB loss copper line that I used to have.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 September 2015 at 09:21, <a href="mailto:paul%2Bausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au">paul+ausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul+ausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au" target="_blank">paul+ausnog@oxygennetworks.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All, just wondering what people are seeing as a typical NBN plan speed from users, I am interested in understanding if people moving to the NBN are actually using the faster speeds available or if most people just go on an ADSL2 type speed like the 12/1 or 25M speed options.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On a side note to this, I had the pleasure to visit a nearby suburb in my area which has recently become NBN fibre enabled, had some nice lunch in a café and went for a walk afterwards, I was totally and utterly disgusted by the install practices of these NBN contractors, fibres just dangling from boxes shoddily mounted to the outside walls of buildings, a bit of flexible conduit here and there, no conduit clips on most, big gaps between the conduit and the box to let water ingress, etc etc. this was even the case on the local banks building.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I really was gobsmacked by this, people have no pride in their work any longer, it would really take about 10 mins to walk down the entire business area of this suburb with a 2M long stick with a hook on the end of it and take out at least a hundred businesses by just yanking on the fibre hanging out of these boxes and breaking it, if this is what is happening everywhere then the NBN is doomed IMHO.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">Paul<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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