I am not really sure of that. It is a rather thick cable coming into the back of the house and the connection in the house is just via a wall socket.

I thought you might be on the fibre to the node network of the former TransACT, which was bought by iiNet:

QUOTE: iiNet offering VDSL2 in Canberra to compete with NBN

Malcolm Turnbull's "vision for the future" NBN is still years away for some Canberra suburbs, but an alternative network at comparable speeds is gearing up across the city.

Like the NBN, the alternative network uses a fibre to the node system, installed more than a decade ago.

ANU adjunct lecturer Tom Worthington says the Canberra system has the advantage because there is new cable installed to homes, whereas for the NBN the plan is to re-use old phone cables..

"About 13 years ago the ACT government had a rush of blood to its head and installed its own fibre to the node broadband system," ANU adjunct lecturer, research school of computer science Tom Worthington said.

"Even before [the network was upgraded], TransACT was much, much faster and more reliable than the ADSL that everybody complained about, so the people that had it considered themselves lucky."

The ACT government sold the TransACT network to iiNet several years ago.

It is IINET and it is through Transact.

It is IINET and it is through Transact.

In that case you're cooking with gas!

Well, the NBN has arrived in Toongabbie NSW!
A crew descended on our street and put a conduit run between the PMG pit box and the side of the house.
They trenched and bored through the ground and each house took about a day.
They tacked a box onto the side of the house next to where the PMG cable comes in.
Whats in the box?
Don't care.
It can stay there until the house is knocked down when I die.
I see the techs nowadays have a new system when bolting a box to the side of the brick house.
You drill a hole with your hammer drill and then using a claw hammer and a screwdriver as a drift, belt each screw into the brick and the jobs done...amazing!!!!
I did like the air driven mole though, wish I had that when I was doing some wiring and plumbing jobs!
They just dug a short pit, put the mole in the pit aimed it and chuff..chuff...chuff along it went chewing through the ground, love it.
Sooner or later the PMG will cut off the house phone and ADSL (4mps download, .0.8mps upload) and i'll guess i'll just buy another G4 Samsung phone for the missus and keep using the G4 internet on my phone and laptop and they can do their best with the NBN.
Fred.

Big business' biggest fear at the moment is NBN reliability and stability. The place I work is still chugging along nicely with two ISDN30 boxes that feed our PABX to the big wide world. Internet is separate business-grade fibre. We do have an NBNCo DSLAM in a lower ground floor plant room, ready to go and this already feeds third party tenants but the firm isn't ready to risk a changeover just yet. Far too many variables and unknowns, too many players in the game blaming each other for faults, slowness, lack of bandwidth, etc; and successive governments who simply refuse to sell NBNCo as a going concern so it can restructure with a more successful business model so it can become a commercial success instead of a national embarrassment, perhaps with some government regulation to ensure it doesn't abuse its monopoly position on pricing.

To be honest, I am glad they have halted their HFC rollout as I live in one of the HFC areas. There is no way I am shifting to an NBN connection whilst the ISPs are short-changing their punters on bandwidth availability.

On a related note, of late, my ADSL2+ connection has been quite frankly appalling between 18:00 and midnight almost every night since about October last year. Given that there are times when the connection is still good, I am assuming that I don't have a line fault. If this is the case then the only thing it can be is that the ISPs are also either skimping on wholesale bandwidth or their backbone providers simply cannot cater for the increase in consumption caused by Netflixers and gamers.

Mind you, it's not the consumers that are at fault here. If a service provider wishes to offer products that are heavy on bandwidth then the ISPs have a responsibility to make sure their networks can handle the load. Until that happens, I, for one, will not be paying any ISP to provide me with a connection that can at best operate at 80% capacity at the times I use it.

the PMG will cut off the house phone and ADSL

The PMG died in 1975

the only thing it can be is that the ISPs are also either skimping on wholesale bandwidth or their backbone providers simply cannot cater for the increase in consumption caused by Netflixers and gamers.

I noticed a definite degradation in my ADSL speed after 6pm when Netflix arrived. I'd say the cause is a combination of both wholesale and retail stinginess/price gouging.

The PMG died in 1975

Well, that is the thing - the NBNCo will hit everyone with a double whammy. Cut off the good connection and install one that ain't so good.

The way it is here I have an NBN box generating massive RFI: About every six to eight weeks the tower goes off line for extended periods. In the last few weeks, it and several others locally were shut down for over 12Hrs with no warning & Saturday morning it also went of line for over an hour (went out don't know when it re-appeared)?

As far as I can see the whole communications system is one great shemozzle. I have never had a decent phone signal since the inception of digital & 4G (forth go: Still useless) I get more bahs in the sheep paddock then bars on the phone.

As far as I can see NBN performance, reliability & speed etc. used in the same sentence represent an oxymoron.

I get more bahs in the sheep paddock then bars on the phone

No, that's very quotable.

Well, today NBN contractors started rolling out HFC in my neck of the woods. I caught them just in time to ensure that the Madison box is placed on my front wall such that it is mounted both at the appropriate height and position, and hidden behind a bush. I especially told them not to drill right through the two courses of brick to make the entry. I'll do that myself so that the cable socket goes exactly where I want it on the inside wall.

By contrast I notice that they placed the Madison box on my neighbour's wall exactly behind the tiles above his kitchen sink. He won't be pleased when he works out that he's got to place the connection box under his sink and find power for it there, too, let alone the modem.

Talk about a bunch of 457 visa jackasses!

That reminds me, I'd better do something about getting switched over, only 4 months to go.

OK this debacle is getting worse.

I went to the Telstra shop at Parramatta to get swiitched over to NBN, and according to NBN my connection doesn't exist, even though its physically been there for 14 months. Therefore Telstra can't do anything until NBN gets their sh*t together.

What's worse, my house is on a corner, so some companies use one address, and some, the other address. So we looked up the other address and it shows a connection that is out of order.

So, who knows when (or if) this will ever get sorted out.

Telstra said they will contact NBN and get back to me within a week (we'll see). They also noted I was on an old plan and switched me to a current one, and it's a little cheaper.

They also said I won't get cut off (we'll see about that too), no matter how long it takes to sort out.

Of interest is that current plans factor in a house phone number at no cost. So, if I choose to keep my number or close it, it makes no difference to the bill. Making calls costs a lot though, so I use the mobile which costs nothing to make local calls.

OK this debacle is getting worse.

Ordinarily, ISPs are aware of NBN's rollout schedule and when area is handed over to the NBN. At my workshop, I was bombarded with flyers and letters addressed "To the Occupant" from various ISPs outlining their plans. If you didn't receive any of that from Telstra then it seems the system did lose sight of you.

As to the physical address issue, I've read numerous stories online of people getting the runaround from Telstra, etc, because the address that they use for receiving mail doesn't accord with what is recorded on land system databases used by utilities.

Hi,

My NBN system was okay to start with .... but lately, the speed has dropped off significantly. I am not talking about "Speed Tests" ... I am talking about doing the same functions at different times of the day .... like logging into a web site and waiting for items to be downloaded ... that is, my 'impression' of the download speed.

Funny thing about 'Speed Tests" .... the value given rarely matches my level of frustration whilst I wait and wait and wait .... During peak times ... my internet speed is so slow that I sometimes have to walk away from the PC.

Re phone land-lines included in Packages for 'free' ... ours is very unreliable, unpredictable ... so make sure that you have a good mobile phone.

During peak times ... my internet speed is so slow that I sometimes have to walk away from the PC.

Who's your ISP and which speed package do you have?