My son has FTTP in Blacktown. Julia Gillard herself trenched the street and put a Mystery box at the top of the street. She then trenched from the street to the house and pulled a fibre cable inside and screwed a mystery box with flashing lights and a back up battery to the wall. My heirs then plugged their home network into the flashy light box and it has worked for about 10 years non stop with one battery change.
Then somebody else took over and stuffed the system up and nobody else I know has FTTP.
I still have nothing and use ADSL if it works, and the G4 network on my laptop and wankerphone. Who needs the NBN with FTTfarend of the universe only?
Fred.

So Fred is there any chance that the next time you visit your son in Blacktown that you might take your old phone and try it on the telephone port? I am fairly certain that the decadic dial will not work but I would really like to know if the bells will ring on an incoming call.

Andrew

Hi Andrew, will try at the next opportunity.
Fred.

Probably unrelated, but when my copper pair from the phone company (Verizon) died, they said that they no longer fix copper problems, and I have to get a FIOS box installed. Verizon came out and put it in, and the touch tone phones in the house work fine. But my old ma bell rotary dial phones no longer could accurately dial a phone number.

I did have Verizon provide internet service. I still have internet from the cable TV company, and I have a linksys router that accepts two separate WANs that I use to merge the services together. The router roughly evenly divies up the bits to the two ISPs.