Wish me luck....

[GeoffA]

Hi all,

We're getting the NBN hooked up on Monday. Don't want it, but we don't have a choice. The current BigPond cable (115mb/s) will be disconnected later in the year, so we may as well get the pain over and done before the rush.

We have a flat roof, and we're on a slab. Waiting to see the look on the techies faces when they get here....

[D4D]

I'll be interested in your experience.

[Champin]

Pardon my ignorance but why would a flat roof and being on a slab be difficult?

[D4D]

Makes it fun to run new cabling.

[Champin]

Aw yeah. Duh!

[GeoffA]

Makes it fun to run new cabling.

I have that all sorted Jamie. We've lived here for 31 years......

[noel_w]

Makes it fun to run new cabling.

No worries mate, straight along the loungeroom gyprock in grey conduit.
She be right mate, no probs

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

No worries mate, straight along the loungeroom gyprock in grey conduit.
She be right mate, no probs

Nah, make it the orange conduit, looks better.

[BaseCamp]

Nah...   the NBN folk will probably just wana jumper it in via ya old copper on the node; down the end of the street . ..  LOL..

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[GeoffA]

Nah...   the NBN folk will probably just wana jumper it in via ya old copper on the node; down the end of the street . ..  LOL..

All the homes in the area have FTTP. They were all done about a year ago.
Just need to do the final hook-up into the house.....

[D4D]

All the homes in the area have FTTP.

I hate you

[GeoffA]

I hate you

....but let's wait and see if it's any better than the current BigPond cable. I'm sure there will be issues.....and expenses...

[macca]

Geez, two tins and  bit if string would be better than my Bigpond cable. After years if complaints and frustration they finally found a faulty connection in a pit out the front about two months ago

[MarkGU]

and here i was thinking you guys down there were still yet to be hooked up to power,water & sewerage Geoff 

[D4D]

and here i was thinking you guys down there were still yet to be hooked up to power, water & sewerage Geoff 

They've got plenty of sewerage down there

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

"In more sh+t than a werribee duck", has to come from somewhere. 
Some sort of life experience brought the saying into life and made it popular usage.

Your lucky Geoff, Fibre to the node out here.
They're in the process of constructing the fibre part ATM.
There's a box 20M from my property, but they still took the connection to the junction pillar 40M away. 
Then it has to come back to the house via overhead cabling.
At least the Fibre should be more resistant to water in the cables.
Get a good rainfall out here and the telstra pits become a secondary drainage system.

[GeoffA]

They've got plenty of sewerage down there

1 outlet per household.....same as everywhere else Jamie.....

[sneezy1]

My son is renting over behind the racecourse. He's a nerd studying computer science at uni so reliable fast internet was on the top of his list. He was only looking to rent houses that had nbn or were able to be hooked up. He's very happy with the speed and reliability so far as I'm aware. We are on cable here so he didn't want to step backwards. His computer here was downloading 24/7 here plus a multitude of other kids devices all hooked up to it.
I'm sure it will be fine. They had a box on the outside of the house and 1 point inside with a router attached. (I think that's all he has)

Regards
Sneezy

[BaseCamp]

We still get DVDs from the BCC library. ...   I was chatting to a friend about the demise of video shops....

At $2 a movie -  it seemed reasonable to guessnimate that with wages and rent and all the rest - that that each video store may have had approx 150,000 - 250,000 hires pa...

So multiply that by say the approx 30 stores that were once upon a time in Brisvagas ...   and that's at least the amount of movies being downloaded these days over the Internet ....

But because downloads are "free" ...  and becuase the demographic has no doubt expanded - the figure is probably even far greater. ..

Food for thought. ...

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[Chris J]

Hope the turkeys down there are better than the dodos up here. About 2 months after connection its sorted, after the tech said by early afternoon the connection should be enabled, Could connect and make phone calls but could not ring out, My second hand set won't work, modem failed after two weeks and it took another two weeks for a replacement, second modem ok but still has some noise one the line, Answers machine will only work if it's near the modem.

Best of luck.

Chris.

[loanrangie]

We still get DVDs from the BCC library. ...   I was chatting to a friend about the demise of video shops....

At $2 a movie -  it seemed reasonable to guessnimate that with wages and rent and all the rest - that that each video store may have had approx 150,000 - 250,000 hires pa...

So multiply that by say the approx 30 stores that were once upon a time in Brisvagas ...   and that's at least the amount of movies being downloaded these days over the Internet ....

But because downloads are "free" ...  and becuase the demographic has no doubt expanded - the figure is probably even far greater. ..

Food for thought. ...

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Whats this DVD thingy ?

[speewa158]

Geoff l will mail you a carrier pidgin so you can communicate with the outside world . When you are driving around look for a phone box with a pinky/purple top  , its a Whyfi spot thingy 

[GeoffA]

Hope the turkeys down there are better than the dodos up here........

So do I Chris.....

[xcvator]

Just what is this cable,fttp, fibre and nbn that you're all talking about 

[GeoffA]

They were supposed to be here between 8am and midday. Still no show. Not a great start.....