A lot of the old (80’s) parts of the Gold Coast suburbs still run on HFC Cable.
My grandmothers old property has HFC Cable for Internet and Foxtel, with ADSL running into the front bedroom for the 603 telephone socket. Funny enough, the Foxtel was on Satellite for about 10 years before switching to Foxtel Cable, with a dish still sitting there.
(The previous owner of the property who owned the house until 2002) WAS a Telstra Tech from the era.
I wish I could find the photos.
this is from aussie broadband:
Some of you may have already heard the news that NBN will stop taking orders on new HFC connections from 7 pm on Tuesday (tomorrow). This is due to a worldwide shortage of chipsets, thanks to COVID impacts.i suggest if any one is looking at new nbn hfc connections contact there rsp before 7pm otherwise you will stay in your rsp queues until the NBN lifts its stop-sell, and then your order will automatically start. nbn should be able to repair and replace existing HFC equipment, if required. Customers who have an active HFC order in flight should also not be affected.
looks like the chpset is in the nbn ntd box
<Obligatory if the LNP hadn’t ruined the NBN all those premises would have fibre reply>
NBN Co’s Technology Choice program allows people to enter their address on the website and receive a quote for upgrading their internet connection to full fibre.
Until November 2020, a quote from Technology Choice cost several hundred dollars. Just 3,000 quotes were provided.
But when the system was improved late last year and the fee was removed, some 35,000 sought quotes in less than two months.
For anyone on TPG, did they get a “free trial upgrade” of their NBN? I got an email and a text saying I have been given a six month trial of their home superfast plans, apparently capable of 200Mbps.
I’m on TPG, and I didn’t get one.
I checked my address on their website, and the fastest plan available to me is still the Unlimited 100 Mbps plan, which I’m on now.
Does your address show a faster plan being available?
I get that as well. I can’t find a faster plan anywhere on their site.
(A facebook rant I made today with the release of documents stating a full FTTP network would’ve cost $10 billion less)
It’s funny how not many people are aware of just how much has been spent on the second-grade NBN.
$57 BILLION is the current count. And this is from building it using a bunch of different technologies - most of which are outdated.
If the original fully fibre based network had been rolled out, it would’ve now cost $10 billion LESS - and would’ve brought Australia into the top 10 in the world for internet speeds and a growing digital economy.
The fact that the government (since 2013) has been able to get away with spending this amount of money is ludicrous, and it seriously pisses me off how they have continually lied about the network (“cheaper, faster, sooner”), when in reality it is a pile of dog shit.
If I now wanted to upgrade my house to full fibre, it would cost me $16.4k, and thats excluding the taxes US TAXPAYERS pay also going towards building and maintaining this second-grade network.
If only people had been saying that prior to Tony Abbott getting elected… oh right.
I couldn’t see this coming! What was more disappointing was how when Turnbull came in he didn’t have the guts to try and fix things up.
I’m still pissed about the 2013 election - it was the most deliberate example of lying to get votes than you can get. In the days leading up they had Turnbull on the ABC Radio assuring everyone that all contracts had been signed for Tasmania and that all contracts would be honoured, when asked specifically about whether that meant that all regions slated to get fibre (including Burnie and Devonport who were right on the very edge of having construction commence) would get fibre he’d just respond with those two lines, all contracts would be honoured and all contracts had been signed.
Of course after the election, what did we hear? Nothing… until a couple of months later when surprise surprise, new maps and Burnie and Devonport now further delayed and FTTN on the way. There were a lot of swinging voters who had the NBN as one of the deciding factors that election and got duped big time.
Funny how the Irony of him, was the Commutations Minister.
… knew “all along” that rolling out fibre to the premises, as Labor had planned, was going to cost up to $15 billion less than they were saying publicly.
“This was a deliberate deception by Tony Abbott, by Malcolm Turnbull, and the assistant minister at the time Paul Fletcher,” the Labor MP told reporters in Canberra.
“A lot of people say forget the NBN, I’m sticking to 4G, if they have access to that. A lot of people say to me forget satellite, I’m going to stick with ADSL. Now that’s an appalling state for Australia to be in after so much investment,” she said.
Wondering if anyone here can help me with installing my broadband. I’m on Fibre to the Building, and am a bit perplexed as to what’s got to connect where. I’ve connected via Superloop but all the infrastructure should be the same regardless of provider since it came with the apartment.
So out the front of my apartment door we have this box.
take the cover off and see whats it’s inside. that almost looks like an FTTP connection.it could also be the floor distributor
this is what FTTB looks like
Hmm interesting, will give it a go.
Each apartment in my complex has that same NBN box outside. My apartment has the box inside too.
thats sounds like FTTP rather then FTTB. as i said the cover of the box inside . and if there is an ether net connection then all you need is a router
Yeah but NBNCo website says it’s FTTB, unless the body corporate have gone ahead and done FTTP without telling them?
maybe they have gone ahead and done FTTP because if you said each appartment has a utility box then the box inside looks the connection box
