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Tisme said:
Thanks for that. A friend of mine signed up to 50 megs FTTP and teased me endlessly about my then mere 30 megs cable speed (he's a LNP party faithful and hosted our previous Canberra boss on a few occasions) he loves it and is considering a faster throughput to keep pace with his increased use of features. I'm going to be particularly jealous when ultraHD starts streaming..... my current 20meg ADSL can't handle Stan high res without stalling and Netflix kicks down to medium as well.
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Tisme you seem to be a wizard om=n this NBN stuff so perhaps you may be able to suggest a remedy for a current problem I have experienced since being connected on Monday...I had all commercial channels on Monday morning up until the NBN was connected

Everything is working fine except the loss of free to air commercial TV channels.

I have been in contact with my server Iprimus, who then redirected me to NBN who in turn redirected me to Foxtel.

Foxtel palmed me back to NBN......NBN then said perhaps I should engage a TV techo.

I have tried to auto tune the TV 3 times without success.

So I am up the creek without a paddle.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Noco

Do the following:

1. Check aerial is connected.
2. Check TV is set to DTV. Note, it might be set to HDMI to get Foxtel or whatever. I suspect this is most likely the problem.
 
Knobby22 said:
Noco

Do the following:

1. Check aerial is connected.
2. Check TV is set to DTV. Note, it might be set to HDMI to get Foxtel or whatever. I suspect this is most likely the problem.
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Thanks Knobby...I have just found the problem......I have rectified it and now everything is fine.
 
drsmith said:
The following in a election flyer from the local Labor candidate offers a hint on Labor's upcoming NBN rollout policy,

That's why I support a plan for Jobs in WA, protecting your penalty rates and a fibre-to-the-premise nbn to foster innovation.
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Got another one today from the local Labor member in the form of a personalised letter stating that Labor will prioritise the delivery of FTTH NBN in my suburb by 2018.

Should Labor be elected on July 2, they're effectively giving themselves ~18 months to plan, design and construct.
 
In a state of unrestrained excitement, I contacted the office of the local Labor candidate and when I read out the above and mentioned 18 months, the above timetable immediately slipped. I was advised that the beginning of 2018 is 1.5 years and the end of 2018 is 2.5 years.

The suburb I'm in is in a 3-year first priority list. Presently, FTTN is scheduled to be rolled out in H1 2018.
 
drsmith said:
In a state of unrestrained excitement, I contacted the office of the local Labor candidate and when I read out the above and mentioned 18 months, the above timetable immediately slipped. I was advised that the beginning of 2018 is 1.5 years and the end of 2018 is 2.5 years.

The suburb I'm in is in a 3-year first priority list. Presently, FTTN is scheduled to be rolled out in H1 2018.
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By then 18G technology will be all over the airwaves Doc. Recently got NBN and not much different to ADSL turbo that I had previously except for the :banghead: to bundle the telephone into the same system. Oh yes Mr Trainspotter you can have faster speeds but you MUST PAY FOR IT - nearly double what I was on originally. Been with same company 11 years and 10 months - Loyalty for ya !
 
drsmith said:
If the following is correct, FTTN is going to have a big week of premises RFS in the weekly update ending June 23.

http://www.finder.com.au/nbn-tracker/recent/copper

June 17 tallies to 52,200.

The update for the week to June 16 however will be somewhat leaner at 15,600.

Note the above is for FTTN only and not brownfields as a whole. FTTB on the above pages looks to me like it's listed on a separate page under High Value Build.
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The above has flowed through to the official weekly rollout update to June 23.

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-rollout-metrics/rollout-metrics-230616.pdf

Brownfields/total was ~67k/~73k RFS for the week respectively. Brownfields/total are now ~52k/~84k above their respective June 30 targets.
 
trainspotter said:
By then 18G technology will be all over the airwaves Doc. Recently got NBN and not much different to ADSL turbo that I had previously except for the :banghead: to bundle the telephone into the same system. Oh yes Mr Trainspotter you can have faster speeds but you MUST PAY FOR IT - nearly double what I was on originally. Been with same company 11 years and 10 months - Loyalty for ya !
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What kind of NBN trainspotter (e.g. copper?) Latency and jitter are becoming a problem at night on some NBN connections due to congestion.

Be interesting to see how your service performs through the day using TPG (ookla) speedtest. http://speedtest.tpg.com.au/
 
drsmith said:
The above has flowed through to the official weekly rollout update to June 23.

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-rollout-metrics/rollout-metrics-230616.pdf

Brownfields/total was ~67k/~73k RFS for the week respectively. Brownfields/total are now ~52k/~84k above their respective June 30 targets.
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The week to June 30 looks like it will be even bigger based on recent activations (Finder). FTTN > 80k and total over 100k. Not included in that is 18.8k HFC quietly announced by NBN Co on June 30.

The rollout should therefore be ~200k over the June 30 target of 2,632k outlined in last year's corporate plan when we see the weekly rollout update to June 30.
 
The rollout has finished the FY with a bang.

177,753 additional lots/premises were passed/covered by the network during the week ending June 30, of which 153,356 were Brownfield. The numbers are so large that they possibly include all those originally scheduled for July 1 2016. That will become clear in next week's update. The 18,800 HFC noted above are not mentioned specifically but would likely form part of the total given the announcement was on June 30.

Premises RFS relative to June 30 2016 targets are as follows,

Brownfields (including HFC)

Target: 1,590,000
Actual: 1,785,152 which is 195,152 above target.

Total

Target: 2,632,000
Total: 2,893,474 which is 261,474 above target.

http://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-i...co/corporate-plan/weekly-progress-report.html

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-rollout-metrics-300616.pdf

It looks like the rollout will slow somewhat from the above figures in the weeks ahead with the Finder site indicating ~120k FTTN/MTM scheduled for RFS in the 6 weeks from July 8. Next week will depend on the proportion of July 1 scheduled for RFS that occurred in the week ending June 30.
 
The 2017 corporate plan has been released and includes rollout projections through to 2020.

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-corporate-plan-2017.pdf

An accompanying document is the associated media release.

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-media-presentation-corporate-plan-2017.pdf

2016 corporate plan (for reference).

http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-corporate-plan-2016.pdf

There are a mix of positive and negative in the above. Firstly, the rollout targets from last year's plan are maintained which is a positive and the completion year of 2020 also remains unchanged.

In terms of cost per premise projections, FTTP greenfields, FTTP brownfields) and FTTN are unchanged. HFC has blown out from $1800pp to $2300pp and fixed wireless has dropped from $4900pp to $4600pp.

Rollout footprint has changed as follows,

FTTP: Reduced from 2.4m to 2.0m (range 2.0m to 2.5m).
FTTN: increased from 4.5m to 6.1m (range 5.1m to 6.5m). Category includes FTTN/B/dp.
HFC: decreased from 4.0m to 2.8m. (range 2.5m to 3.2m).
Fixed wireless and satellite combined remains at 1.0m (range 0.9m to 1.1m).

In that detail, the HFC cost per premise increase and footprint reduction is clearly a negative.

I haven't looked in detail but slightly improved financial metrics appears to be driven by an increase in projected ARPU.

Some further commentary for reference,

https://www.finder.com.au/far-fewer-nbn-customers-will-be-connected-via-cable
 
Well, who'd have thought. Trying to upgrade and integrate the old, unmaintained and obsolete HFC into the NBN was a waste of time and money. If only some sort of expert had said that before they started down that path and thrown a few (b/m)illion at the integration systems and network upgrades.

And (thanks to FTTP users), ARPU is actually exceeding Labor's original NBN target. You know, the target that Malcolm said was invalid and wouldn't happen, therefore making Labor's NBN unviable. And the driver for the increased ARPU? FTTP users. Because they can actually get (and therefore pay for) 100Mbps services.
 
NBNMyths said:
Well, who'd have thought. Trying to upgrade and integrate the old, unmaintained and obsolete HFC into the NBN was a waste of time and money. If only some sort of expert had said that before they started down that path .
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Malcolm is an expert and if he didn't see it, nobody would have.
 
Anyone know if there's a downside (apart from the obvious of having no communications) to not connecting to NBN before the copper network is turned off?

If someone chooses to not have it installed now, do they incur any sort of penalty or additional cost to get it installed later? :confused:

Specific situation is FTTH with the fibre already installed to the box on the outside of the house but nothing connected to it.
 
Gringotts Bank said:
How can governments be trusted with anything, when this happens?

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/t...00-times-faster-than-nbn-theoretically-2016-9
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Because (as it partially hints in the article) it doesn't mean anything for two reasons:
1. Mobile networks never meet their headline speeds.
2. The NBN can be upgraded to faster speeds relatively easily (at least the original fibre sections can).

Telstra's current 4G network is already theoretically 3x faster than the NBN. It can do 300Mbps, while the NBN is currently limited to 100Mbps (although the fibre is set up for 1000Mbps). Despite the theoretical speed, the mobile network typically delivers about 10Mbps, and its real-world speed has actually fallen since it was launched a few years ago, as more people have joined the network.

Mobile networks are shared mediums. Fibre is not. The more people connected to a mobile tower, the slower the network gets. They are also limited by the amount of radio spectrum available.

That's why there isn't a single carrier anywhere in the World that is proposing to replace fixed line networks with mobile. To the contrary, they do everything they can to shift data off their cellular networks by charging huge prices, capping data volumes and rolling out WiFi grid networks (e.g. Telstra Air). All of these things only exist to move traffic off cellular (4G/5G) networks and onto the fixed line, to keep the cellular networks chugging along.
 
NBNMyths said:
Because (as it partially hints in the article) it doesn't mean anything for two reasons:
1. Mobile networks never meet their headline speeds.
2. The NBN can be upgraded to faster speeds relatively easily (at least the original fibre sections can).

Telstra's current 4G network is already theoretically 3x faster than the NBN. It can do 300Mbps, while the NBN is currently limited to 100Mbps (although the fibre is set up for 1000Mbps). Despite the theoretical speed, the mobile network typically delivers about 10Mbps, and its real-world speed has actually fallen since it was launched a few years ago, as more people have joined the network.

Mobile networks are shared mediums. Fibre is not. The more people connected to a mobile tower, the slower the network gets. They are also limited by the amount of radio spectrum available.

That's why there isn't a single carrier anywhere in the World that is proposing to replace fixed line networks with mobile. To the contrary, they do everything they can to shift data off their cellular networks by charging huge prices, capping data volumes and rolling out WiFi grid networks (e.g. Telstra Air). All of these things only exist to move traffic off cellular (4G/5G) networks and onto the fixed line, to keep the cellular networks chugging along.
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Thanks. Do you support NBN?
 

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