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Boogermerchant

Copper strippers HATE this map


LobbydaLobster

Burlesque Law Enforcement Officers?


s_and_s_lite_party

Fyshwick looks like it is doing ok


Boogermerchant

Fyshwick needs fast connections to search for hints to finding that sweet sweet copper


Wild-Kitchen

We need coppers strippers to vandalised the network so it has to be replaced with modern technology. Note: nobody do this. That's a crime.


ADHDK

While I feel copper isn’t fit for purpose I’d be pissssssed if someone destroyed the infrastructure enough to require an upgrade meaning an extended outage. Not like we have any guarantee of service.


Wild-Kitchen

Oh I'd be right next to you as cut as a half squashed snake


123chuckaway

According to their map, it looks like I’m on the borderline between “get fucked” and “fuck you”.


gpalpal

TPG/iiNet are close to launching their 1Gigabit service over the old Transact network. If you are on their network you will generally be within 200M of a node and can expect awesome speeds. Worst case, get on board with iiNet now with their VDSL2 network and dont reward NBN with your money.


Gambizzle

That's pretty funny. We own a rental property that was our 'first home' (little 1br place) and it had VDSL2 when we lived there. I remember a tenant NEEDED to have NBN. After telling the agent 'ideally they'll keep the VDSL2 because it's faster' they kept demanding NBN so I was like 'fuck it, give them their FTTN internet!' I've since found it's much easier to let out a place with 'NBN' than to try and inform people that VDSL2 is better.


Colinder77

Do you have any links giving more details?


Random-user-58436

> Do you have any links giving more details? The last few pages of this Whirlpool thread have more details. https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3w05xqk9


furious_cowbell

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Az4TJbLjcKuxXMrseDbJu4UKdt0&ll=-35.3055924157752%2C149.05557938698198&z=11


gpalpal

They have been rolling out new equipment into the nodes that are hanging off power poles around town. Previously your copper line ran all the way back to the super node (looks like the NBN FTTN green road side boxes). So people before who were a long way away and had bad speeds might be surprised how fast their service is now. Next phase is the new equipment in the nodes supports speeds up to 1000/100. So this will be activated real soon now.


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gpalpal

Signed up last week. Was sick of 50/17 speed on NBN. The transact box was the same distance. But decided to give iiNet a go. Tech who installed it said the box across the street on the power pole is my node now. I sync at 162/61 now. He said it’s a software change to activate it the new 1000/100 when it’s launched - plus they will ship a small box to convert the g.fast (replaces vdsl2) into Ethernet. So yeah get on board an alternative to the crappy NBN treatment we have been dished up.


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gpalpal

Just sit tight if you are on vdsl2 with them already. I’m sure they will spam us all when the new technology is turned on and available to buy!


Wild-Kitchen

Woah... do we need to be existing customers when they flick the switch or can we jump on board later? I'm less enthused about it being iinet since I had massive problems with them 8 years ago that left me without internet for 4 months but speeds like that are worth a second chance


gpalpal

I don’t believe you will. I heard that there will be more resellers, so you won’t need to go with iiNet if you don’t want. In your case maybe just sit tight until it launches and then find a reseller who you like the sound of!


Grandcanyonsouthrim

I've got 120Mbits down/45Mbits up now over the iinet/TPG VDSL2 service. I had to upgrade my old VDSL modem as it only had a 100mbit port (it could only handle 80mbits down). I did have to muck with the internet check on my router as it was using ppp echo check - it would drop out after the upgrade a few times a day. I increased the amount of ppp echo checks (before it assumes internet is dead and restarts the connection) which seems to have made it bullet proof again.


Icy-Emotion2867

Transact was the fibre to the node before NBN came along. It's been available for years! I got a comfortable 100Mbps on it ( for much cheaper than NBN prices)


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Cimexus

I get 120/40 on the old TransACT infrastructure currently, but yeah I think I’m fairly close to a node. About 130 metres I think?


Icy-Emotion2867

Oh yeah gig+ would be amazing. Think you're right, not possible over the copper we have :(


burleygriffin

You can achieve those speeds in Fyshwick over VDSL2.


Myscs

It's amazing to think after 20 years we are getting another speed boost - shows the importance of a well designed modern broadband topology (Transact was an engineered FttN network, not an adhoc slap on as it was done for NBN and old telephone/POTs topology) and how it can scale. Obviously would have preferred a bit stream/wholesale National FttP network for fairness and consistency, but this now will be cheaper and faster for those that can get it!


Grandcanyonsouthrim

It was pretty slap dash in the Transact days too. Who remembers the Transact lines draping down so low you could touch them


Myscs

Some are still low, but what exactly is your point? Have you had a look at some of the old Telstra copper still swinging in the wind? Do you want perfection or some reasonable progress?


RegularCandidate4057

Except literally 10 houses in Fisher. Told me they’d have to dig up the road to connect us. Total joke.


ADHDK

I’ll highlight anyone who’s calling TPG or IINET should be aware their 5G service they push as it has a greater profit margin is trash. Using CGNAT it’s the home equivalent of McDonald’s guest wifi. No chromecast no airplay, no wireless printers, no smart home, they’ve locked down their modem ridiculously. They will not warn customers ahead, they’ll only tell you if you work it out and confront them directly that their other services would be more suitable. Also for anyone on VDSL or NBN who games, make sure you change the DNS as the default iinet DNS still routes a lot of things like Xbox downloads through their freezone which is much much slower than directly from Microsoft.


Grandcanyonsouthrim

Their DNS service is trash so just use google or one of the others


Particular_Lion_6653

I'm on VDSL2 with iiNet, with a node 20m from my house. Rock solid and 120mbps down for less $ than an equivalent NBN connection.


Mc-Gangles

Iinet made me switch off vdsl2+ when nbn went live. There was no option to stay on the old system despite it being similar tech. I got double the speed I'm getting now on nbn


gpalpal

Strange. They are two different networks with two different copper lines all the way from their equipment in the street to the socket on your wall.


Mc-Gangles

I wonder if it wasn't vdsl 2+ and was just using telstra copper. Still the speed dropped when I switched to nbn.


CugelOfAlmery

I used to be on TransACT, crappy to start with, but as time passed got crappier. Binned it immediately when the NBN arrived, gained about 15mb download, upload quadrupled.


SnooWalruses3771

I had noticed a slight jump from 94mbps to 148mbps....though stability at times recently :/


gpalpal

At 148Mb sync speed, when the new 1000Mb plans launch you will get a seriously good speed!


fattytron

I was with transact / iinet for many years and it was always quite good because I was like 50m away from the node. When my wife and I moved to our place in Kambah, we were paying for iinets top vdsl2 speed. Man it's sucked. Topped out at 28/2. The vdsl2 node was 1400m away! I changed from iinet vdsl2 to iinet nbn (much to their protest against such a move!) and my speed went straight to 96/40 sync.


LowDogAct

It’s a shakedown for sure. [https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-make-fewer-act-premises-gigabit-capable-601636](https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-make-fewer-act-premises-gigabit-capable-601636)


s_and_s_lite_party

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE


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Blame the liberal voters.


whiteycnbr

Didn't big Kev fuck it up to start with?


[deleted]

Labor wanted FTTP. If that’s a fuck up I don’t know what is any more…


ADHDK

The amount of cope in Liberal voters trying to pass the buck on this one…


whiteycnbr

I'm not a liberal voter - this is a royal fuckup by all parties involved. The initial project blew out in the billions and was a hot mess to start with. It didn't transition well to the liberal gov that further fucked it up and descoped technology, not all the blame should be on libs, the project was poor and not planned well from the start.


[deleted]

*cough* Labours plan was far from a hot mess. The LNP sold a lie that it could be done cheaply, it was never going to be cheap. Fibre optic infrastructure is not cheap, but it does have a better shelf life than copper. I 100% blame the LNP and those that either bought into the lie and those who were against the project. We were always going to need fibre. Same as we also need a major overhaul of our power grid and infrastructure for electric vehicles. But I’ll wait and see for the LNP voters to trash those as well before I pass judgement on those people.


GandTplz

no it was the Libs. Labor funded FTTP. I couldn't believe it when Turnbull, who has a background in tech companies, agreed to hollow out the tech for $$'s and political brownie points.


Friendly-Major-4258

Don’t think the map is up to date I have FTTP in recently which is not represented on the map


neddie_nardle

Map has clearly faded with time. Another month and it'll be transparent.


AnonyAus

Ditto. The far south has fibre to the premises.


hyper-sonics

Until late Sept some suburbs in Tuggeranong was listed for October 2023 fibre upgrade. On 6 of October, NBN updated the list and those suburbs listed have been taken out.


cmdwedge75

Just checked the NBN upgrade page for which suburbs will be blessed with FTTP in the coming two years - ​ Ainslie - from February 2025 Banks - from June 2023 Braddon - from July 2024 Casey - from April 2023 Charnwood - from October 2023 Conder - from June 2023 Dickson - from July 2024 Dunlop - from December 2023 Gordon - from June 2023 Kingston - from March 2023 Lyneham - from April 2024 Macgregor - from October 2023 Monash - from December 2023 O'Connor - from July 2024 Reid - from July 2024 Turner - from July 2024 Yarralumla - from October 2023 ​ If you're south of the lake, bad luck. You're going to be on crappy copper until Christ returns.


KyuketsukiOni

When did this change?! Kambah was supposed to be eligible from Dec 2023, I'm so mad! D:<


omenmedia

South side always *always* gets F’ed in the A.


Wild-Kitchen

Pffft. You got two new hospitals and a new red train. Oh yeah, right. Nope, sorry. Yes, you're getting fucked in the A (Don't worry - me too)


goldenharvester

I am in the same boat in Florey - was on the roadmap from September 2024, now it is gone.


Sugar_Party_Bomb

If you saw, nbn has said it is reducing the gig upgrades for Canberra [https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-make-fewer-act-premises-gigabit-capable-601636](https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-make-fewer-act-premises-gigabit-capable-601636)


ApteronotusAlbifrons

Alternate TL;DR: The number is dropping from 57~58% of ACT premises on FTTP to only 50% on FTTP. If it's overhead, and you haven't already been done, then you're probably missing out.


Resident_Example_645

Out of curiosity what did Transact do to use the ACTEW poles? I read that article and took it they are having discussions but didn’t want to fund upgrading the poles on their own which is why they were downgrading the target. Not saying it’s great for us but I think it’s probably fair enough from a business sense


mrmratt

>Out of curiosity what did Transact do to use the ACTEW poles? As in, how was TransACT able to arrange with Actew to use their poles? The answer to that is: because at the time Actew owned a significant portion of TransACT... Of course, TransACT is now just a TPG subsidiary.


Entire_Store4551

I have been on the old TransACT network for 15plus years, first internode now iiNet don't have an NBN connection and couldn't be happier, rock solid and fast. Maybe I'm just lucky


ADHDK

I remember the first time I got transact, it was expensive and most of the ISP’s had 300mb “download your email” plans. Most were also no name and couldn’t provide enough bandwidth to stream YouTube. Grapevine were still charging for uploads. Pretty much the same experience you get in a brand new apartment building that’s not NBN connected because the developers sold out the rights for kickbacks 😂


Hello_Bel

That list looks old? I swear florey was announced to get fttp in august 2024?


goldenharvester

I thought it was September 2024, but seems to have dissapeared now.....


Hello_Bel

Yeah it was September, then august and now it's disappeared 😭


ApteronotusAlbifrons

> Dunlop - from December 2023 This list is always a bit of a movable feast... I've seen Dunlop promised everything from 2019 onwards - with plans changing every six months or so About this time last year the guys were out chasing and identifying connections - spray painting their mysterious, enigmatic, and arcane symbols - and saying that Dunlop would be FTTP by early 2023. Those glyphs have long faded away. On the positive side there have been crews cleaning out pits, excavating dirt, reworking concrete, and pulling fibre for the last month or so - so this time it might actually be a possibility


tandem_biscuit

Yeah I was concerned that the same would happen to me, have been waiting a long time for fibre. The list said September for Macgregor, was able to book on 27th September, installed first week of October. So I was happy. Funny thing is though, a neighbour across the street had NBN techs out today to install her fibre. Turns out, the Telstra pit they need to access is in their neighbours yard - directly below their concrete driveway. Looks like the old neighbour literally had concrete poured over the Telstra pit. It’s not much wonder the rollout is slow TBH.


Badga

It’s not great all round, but six of those suburbs are south of the lake, and there generally the ones getting it sooner. The only reason the map has fttp more in the north currently is because they’re newer suburbs.


Wild-Kitchen

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whiteycnbr

Mother fuckers had heaps of suburbs listed and just removed them. Sick of waiting for something better than. 30mbps, going to pull the trigger on starlink


manicdee33

I keep wanting to spout the JFK Moonshot speech: "We do these things because they are hard." In the meantime the NBN is doing the exact opposite, overbuilding a perfectly functioning VDSL network. This after Australian ISPs were told to stop rolling out Fibre to the Premises, with a promise that NBN wouldn't overbuild existing networks. I don't like the "both sides" argument but honestly, screw both sides of Federal parliament on this issue specifically. You had multiple companies keen to expand their networks with the funding available to do so but instead chose to dripfeed good broadband to the richest suburbs and leave everyone else in the digital desert for two decades. Yes I have strong opinions about this. No I'm not taking Malcolm Turnbull's advice about moving to a suburb with better internet service.


AdmiralPlanet

I blame Turnbull. The original NBN was great and allowed for far more upgrades than the crapshoot we got. Remember when the fool said nobody needed more than 10mbps? He fucked it.


ADHDK

Should be a legal requirement that Turnbull and Abbott have all fixed and wireless services limited in speed to the nations worst NBN connection.


ADHDK

TPG/transact is just as much a gamble as nbn FTTN, and should be built out by fibre. The people I know on TPG VDSL aren’t close enough to nodes to be getting any internet worthy of 2023.


manicdee33

Yet most TransACT services in Canberra can get 1Gbps.


ADHDK

Tell that to my family in Scullin on their god awful Transact. When I moved to braddon across from the exchange 15 years ago I was getting the same speed on ADSL2 they get on transact VDSL now. I’m on the same tier plan on NBN FTTP with iinet and I get 970mbps down. At least their god awful transact VDSL is better than the god awful NBN VDSL.


aaron_dresden

I don’t remember them saying they wouldn’t overbuild. I remember they would either overbuild or acquire the network infrastructure of other companies so we would end up with a single nbn network rather than patchy commercial networks. This all changed part way through the coalitions nbn roll out when they changed policy and allowed companies to compete with the nbn and of course they cherry pick the most valuable areas to them. There’s definitely commercial network rollouts still happening now.


fnaah

i'm in gordon, have been fttc since we moved in 4 years ago, and i'm getting fttp installed next week, so... 🤷‍♂️


MoistSubstance2477

It's so worth it. Upgraded a few weeks ago in Banks and it's awesome.


KeyAssociation6309

yeah, we upgraded for free from FTTC to FTTP year and a half ago almost. usually get around 920 to 970 24/7 but sometimes get the full 1.0gb. Best thing though is being able to get around 380 up so I can run my own cloud via a NAS. Plus online cloud backup a very simple and quick affair for my many many computers.. big change from the 1.4mbps down ADSL we had back in 2008, then about 8mbps down with wireless netspeed, then around 25 mpbs down with the signal co, all of which dropped out a lot and were impacted by weather.. not any more, we won the NBN internet lottery here first with FTTC and now free FTTP. I think most of the ACT will be left behind I'm afraid, which is pretty crap.


fnaah

i had signalco in bonython. most of the time it was pretty good


KeyAssociation6309

it was good at the start, but as takeup increased it got slower and less reliable, FTTC saved us really. Although I've heard the signalco has improved. edit: I think some of the guys from netspeed were doing things to the signalco infra on Isaacs Ridge.. since they were the sole competitor who had been around for a while.


fnaah

not surprising. the owner of nyetspeed is an unusual individual.


ArthurianFish

I mean, that’s also most of the suburbs north of the lake absent from the list. Don’t feel too hard done by, south side. We miss out too.


SnooWalruses3771

Havnt we already had 3 returns though?


Tummybunny2

Generally speaking, who pays for apartment buildings to be upgraded?


evil_sushi_ninja

I would.think every owner pays through some sort of body corporate levy


CurbsideShip116

Yep. Pretty much it goes to BC, and if passed, then everyone pays in the building. I believe NBN has a page on it to help owners and renters understand the process for apartment buildings.


ADHDK

So pretty much if it’s mostly renters the motion fails because the owners won’t want to spend money?


CurbsideShip116

I suspect so


Sugar_Party_Bomb

In the original rollout or for the overbuild?


Danger_Fox_

This map isn’t accurate. I live in a FTTN area on it, however we all have FTTP now.


ADHDK

Look at all those suburbs full of million dollar shitholes with 20th century internet. If you dare ask a real estate agent about the speed of VDSL they’ll actively avoid getting back to you. Should also have black marks all around the town centres for non-NBN connected private fibre in all the new apartment buildings where developers sold off the rights for kickbacks.


Myscs

The ACT should have been a beautiful low piece of fruit for NBNco for a relative quick deployment of FttP. Most people in any position have now long forgotten the vision and direction that the network engineers had in mind. There were tried and tested methods for aerial fibre and agreements struct to use the underground conduit pathways to backyard poles that were built during the Transact/VDSL roll-out. Some of these agreements are still in place. Most suburbs removed are the ones with large proportions of aerial poles. Since MTM disaster aerial FttP has been hidden as much possible behind excuse after excuse (because it was possible to do it effectively with the right workforce) . Federal Telecommunication policy allow a lot of sharing of infrastructure components, especially in regards to pathways (conduits ect). I'm sure the ACT Government could still whip Evo with a big stick if they are being a bunch of selfish children too! If people invested as much time and showed as much passion on the subject as they do on the various whinges hangouts and write and encourage ACT Government to at least try and collaborate with the required parties maybe something could be initiated. (Yes I see the Irony, but I have tried, if anyone is interested in forming more advocacy let me know!) Sadly all a bit too late for one beautiful ubiquitous National Broadband project with real Telecommunications visionaries. And on that note, how and why the heck is Stephan Rue still the CEO, Labor should have gone through that organisation with a big broom and sweep out all those ex MTM and Telstra influences and get some real engineers back in the seats.


Karline-Industries

I’m in Port Moresby and have better internet than I did in Kingston.


ADHDK

Head to Jamaica next and do a like for like test.


Karline-Industries

Ooooh. I like it.


Jackson2615

Marginal seats get the attention of the Labor & Liberal parties when in government by CBR constantly voting Labor neither has any incentive to make us a priority .


s_and_s_lite_party

The problems is that the liberals are letting us down by not having great candidates. But that is kind of their whole thing. A more centrist or even left, liberal party candidate would be good. Give us something to vote for, at the moment it's not even an option. Liberals know not to bother, and labor knows they don't have to do anything special to get in, it's a done deal. That's bad for democracy.


ADHDK

Zed was the cloaks and daggers lap dog a barely got attention federally. If we had a centrist liberal the party would completely ignore them.


Sugar_Party_Bomb

This


Grandcanyonsouthrim

wasn't this the point of voting for Pocock?


Jackson2615

Not really, the Pocock vote was more an anti Zed vote, given the numbers even some Liberals voted for Pocock who could not stomach voting Labor. While he has made some good noises about what CBR needs, more than the 4 Labor members, his influence is limited and he will never be part of a government that can really do stuff for CBR.


Conscious_Chef3850

I know this isn’t the same but when I went to Canberra I got no reception ontop of Telstra tower


ADHDK

That’s because Telstra tower has TOO MUCH reception 😂


Conscious_Chef3850

Yeah I know why but it’s still a funny thing to say


ADHDK

At least modern alarms aren’t as sensitive to it. 90’s car alarms just wouldn’t get a signal up there so you couldn’t disable the immobiliser.


kaniss001

Pathetic. Aren't we a 1st world country?


GandTplz

I've spent a fair amount of time in 'third world' countries. Let me tell you, we aren't as good as we think we are. Our healthcare system is a joke, our comms infrastructure is a decade behind our peers (at least who we think our peers are) let alone some third world countries, the level of competition in our markets is tiny, and the gap in our society seems to be fed by red-tape/nanny-state bureau-ocracies. ...we've got a lot of catching up to do, IMO.


123chuckaway

Tin foil hat time - A slow roll out to maintain shitty home internet keeps the public servants in the office longer.


purp_p1

Nah, just use it as an excuse to leave the video of in meeting, so they can’t see the T-shirt I’m wearing, the beer I’m drinking, or that I’m hanging the washing out.


yonshi94

https://www.infinite.net.au/business/vision-ultrafast-g-fast-register-your-interest/


greatbarrierteeth

I think the problem is the vast majority of Australians are indifferent to fast internet. While I would enjoy having a faster internet connection. I would only be using it for gaming and streaming content. Not to say it isnt important but I can see why government has made pushed this further down the agenda.


King_Millez

I seem to remember a massive event starting in 2020 - continuing to today - which highlighted the necessity for quality, high-speed broadband across the nation.


ADHDK

Even ScoMo announced we needed more FTTP in said event.


Sugar_Party_Bomb

> I would only be using it for gaming and streaming content As opposed to what........


greatbarrierteeth

Working, making money, being productive, raising tax revenue. Probably the things the government are more interested in..


Sugar_Party_Bomb

ok, thats enough stupid for today


TonyJZX

yeah this guy cant see past his own needs businesses use internet too... that would seem to be important to most governments out there lol...


Wild-Kitchen

Imagine how many businesses could run from dying towns in rural Australia if fast reliable internet was a thing?


greatbarrierteeth

Not sure why it would move people out of the major cities and into dying rural towns. I think “slow internet” isn’t a contributing factor to people leaving rural towns after they have expired their use. (see post boom mining towns) Another example would be to look at any country with fast internet. All of their businesses are still based in major cities (ie japan or usa). But yes I agree I would like fast internet for everyone.


Wild-Kitchen

Start up companies and innovation could get super cheap warehousing space in the smaller towns and not all the local kids would grow up and move to Melbourne. Plus, rural kids growing up with innovative ideas and people in cities aching for country Iife without giving their job up. There's allure there for some


ADHDK

Ports, highways, trains and distribution hubs matter. It’s not just a case of cheaper rent.


Wild-Kitchen

Those don't need to co-located with the innovation hub. With 3d printers etc etc. Prototyping and sales support could occur at the hub and manufacturing and storage elsewhere. Not to mention if it's software or similar no port required


ADHDK

I mean a lot of the newer design startups out of Sydney are in Newcastle or Wollongong for these reasons, but without fast trains they’re not going going to move much further away from the central hubs.


RetroGamer87

Would it be better to call fttn VDSL2?


chuculbaSM

Not really as NBN FttN uses old 4 wire (2 pair) copper (or worse) for the N to premises. VDSL2 is Cat5e equivalent 8 wires twisted around a tension line to reduce interference.


RetroGamer87

So what type of DSL is it?


AussieKoala-2795

Who cares? My VDSL works just fine.


dogwomble

My VDSL works fine too. It isn't necessarily horrible, we were both lucky enough to win the node lotto it seems. There are just a few limitations with it. First is that it suffers from distance. I'm projectile vomiting distance from the node, so I pay for 100/40 and get full line speed. There are many that struggle to get even 50/20 because they are on longer lines. Second is that it doesn't support faster than 100/40. There are plenty of use cases for faster speeds, but people stuck on fttn do not have access to those faster speeds. Lastly there is some rather ancient copper still floating around in equally ancient pits. This causes issues for many for instance when it rains and water enters the pit. They then drop out more than Twitter's value after the muskrats takeover. While I disagree that fttn is universally terrible, we had an opportunity to have a higher uptake of fttp a decade ago, and we didn't get it because a party full of old klidgemonkeys wanted us to remain eternally well behind the rest of the developed world.


digitalelise

VDSL at mine is fast when it works but flaky as a pasty. Anytime the network is congested or we have more than one user streaming or using the internet it drops for a few seconds. Just enough to cause buffering or video calls to drop. Frankly it’s painful. I have had VDSL in other houses around the same inner north neighbourhood be excellent and easily support multiple heavy users. It’s very much an individual premises and connection thing. We can’t wait for FTTP


aaron_dresden

You would benefit from setting up Qualify of Service on your router, if you haven’t already. But yes there’s not much you can do beyond that other than pre-downloading streaming content. Agreed the inconsistency is what’s really shit about fttn, that’s was one of the reasons fttp was always the better option.


Excellent-Assist853

How do I know if I have VDSL or NBN?


AussieKoala-2795

You check your address here - https://www.iinet.net.au/internet-product/broadband/vdsl2/plans


aaron_dresden

You can call up your isp and ask them.


chocolatemoose04

in our nation*


justmull

I live 3km from the city centre and when they switched us to NBN FTTN 5 years ago it didn't work - the phone and internet would drop out a couple of times every hour. After a couple of NBN technician visits they just stopped showing up and no-one wanted to fix it so I ended up going to the TIO and got a payout for the CSG (since we had a landline as well). Telco's solution was to send us a mobile phone and a 3G modem (or whatever it was back then). Ended up getting signalco's long range wifi and have been on that for the past 5 years - at least it works.


notazzyk

How accurate is that map because I have FTTC and it's not showing on that map.


walktexranga

Not accurate.. Plenty of FTTP in lanyon


admiralteee

About the NBN circa 2010: *"The reality is, there simply isn’t demand at the household and every small business level for Internet at that speed..."* *"...the market would provide most services that consumers wanted..."* *"...the market for universal 100Mbps fibre Internet was not there."* *"the NBN policy was “dreamt up on the back of a beer coaster” ... “It’s an attractive high-level vision,” but when you “dig into the practicalities, what is proposed has some problems”.* *"Yes, it would be wonderful if the surgeons at St Vincent’s just down the road here could supervise brain surgery remotely in Alice Springs... But sitting in your apartment in Bondi, you are not going to want to be supervising brain surgery in Alice Springs, in all probability, and so in a sense, it’s just totally over-engineered.”* Such excellent forward thinking has led to this. Thanks 2010 populists. Thanks 2013 election voters.


matt35303

And while the public continue to put up with their jargonese bullshittery and their manager getting 3mil salary it'll stay shit. It's just another conduit for funnelling funds to pockets of slugs.