[AusNOG] Typical NBN Takeup speeds

[John Edwards]

Happy to report that the fibre installs in my SA neighbourhood are of a
high standard.

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.

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.

I think "Doomed" is a little strong - I would reserve that description for
the 50+ dB loss copper line that I used to have.

John


On 10 September 2015 at 09:21, paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au <
paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
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