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<p class="MsoNormal">So this has been fun.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Got FTTN at my house, and been happy for the most part, but introduced noise on my line (presumable from legacy ADSL? Only a 150m long cable run) has my stability pretty poor for non-trivial and defined periods.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I signed up for the TMP, and after 3 months, 8 emails, and 2 phone calls, finally got an invoice to pay the $660 quoting fee. It’s almost like they don’t want you to have this option.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I paid this fee and a month later get a quote for $9150 to upgrade from FTTN to FTTP. 30 days to accept, sign on the dotted line please.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This was a little higher than expected as I would have gritted my teeth and bore it for around $5K.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am still tempted to bite the bullet as a capital improvement charge to the house, as the utter dead end that FTTN is leaves me presumably like this for the next decade+ ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(also seeing 250Mbps plans with 100Mbps upload on FTTP already shows that FTTP is already outstripping every other tech on the MTM…)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So assembled centuries of wisdom of AUSNOG, what would you do?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Michael Carmody</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
Solution Architect</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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