Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month
Date	2016-11-25 06:23 +1100
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keithr0 <user@account.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> news16 <news16@woa.com.au> wrote
>>>>> felix wrote

>>>>>> NBN guys recommended this provider as excellent value..

>>>>>> https://myrepublic.net/au/

>>>>> Are they operating yet?
>>>>> (web pages doesn't load, unless that launching rocket is it atm)

>>>> Works fine for me.

>>>>> What is the shake up is the speed and no data cap.
>>>>> It will be interesting to see what the rest of the market does.
>>>>> I think Optus has already launched a no data cap mobile offering.

>>>>> Then there will be the issue of whether MyRepublic can survive the 
>>>>> data demands

>>> Might look into it if they deign to switch our FTTN on before the 27 feb

>> When did they start doing any work ?

>> Ours have been visibly doing stuff for months now and even last weekend I 
>> noticed another pillar with a temporary cover with the handles right down 
>> either side of the round cover. Not so many with obvious vans with no 
>> markings now tho, usually only a couple at a time now. Early on it could 
>> be up to 10.

> It took about 5 months from beginning to end here.

Bugger. I did ask the ones I talked to but none of them knew when
we would be using it. I did originally say 'hopefully by Xmas' to one
of them and he did say 'hopefully' but appeared to just be guessing
because he only knew what they were doing, not the overall stuff.

> Most of the work seemed to be done by contractors in plain white or rented 
> vans,

They all appear to be contractors here.

All plain white vans with just the one with Avis markings.
Presumably they got the lot in such a rush Avis didn’t have
time to get them painted etc.

> the original mob that laid the fibre

We've never seen that happening here, presumably because it
isnt necessary here. Initially they did a bit of quite local digging
and put lots of those green boxes within usually at most 50'
of a pillar, mostly quite a bit closer than that. That was all done
pretty quickly, in about a week or so all over town. Must be at least
30 of the boxes now.

Then they spent weeks with usually 2-3 blokes at each of those
green boxes fiddling around with the wiring at one end of them.
I was talking to one of them doing that and said 'presumably
the rest of it is up the other end' and he just said yes.

> and dug the pits had some sort of NBN branding on their vehicles

Ours didn’t. And those bigger trucks have been long gone now.

> but they were the only ones.

> A lot of the pillars (but not all) were doubled in height,

Interesting. None of ours have. Not one.

> presumably to duplicate all the existing Telstra connections with similar 
> NBN ones so that the customer pair just has to moved from one to the 
> other.

They certainly arent doing that here. When they put in those
green metal boxes, there are at least 3 big plastic pipes about
4" diam from the bottom of the green metal box to the pit that
has a couple of concrete covers, in the direction of the pillar.

The pits arent big enough to climb into like the older
pits which have much bigger metal covers, 4'x6' ish.

I assume that at some stage the cable that currently goes
from the pillar to the exchange is removed and there is
a cable from the pillar to the green metal box instead
but it isnt obvious how that is done mechanically.

The one they spend the most time fiddling around
in the wiring end of the green metal box is just a few
tens of feet away from what I know is the RIM that
provides the services to that big section of town.

I know my cable currently goes to the town exchange directly.

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NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-23 10:30 +1100
  Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2016-11-22 23:50 +0000
    Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-23 11:41 +1100
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 00:11 -0800
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      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-23 12:28 +1100
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@nunnya.business.com.au> - 2016-11-23 15:03 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jebusjones35@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 03:45 -0800
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            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jebusjones35@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 15:07 -0800
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                Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jebusjones35@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 16:40 -0800
                Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2016-11-24 11:59 +0800
                Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jebusjones35@gmail.com - 2016-11-24 15:48 -0800
                Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2016-11-25 07:56 +0800
    Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 15:26 +1100
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-24 19:23 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 20:24 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2016-11-24 23:15 +1000
            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 06:23 +1100
              Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:16 +1100
                Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:31 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:12 +1100
            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 18:47 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 20:28 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 08:33 +1100
            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:08 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 08:28 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:30 +1100
            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 00:35 -0800
  Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> - 2016-11-25 17:05 +0800
    Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 05:42 +1100
    Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-11-26 09:44 +1100
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 10:10 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 10:42 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-26 11:22 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 13:11 +1100
            Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 13:16 +1100
          Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 16:23 +1100
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> - 2016-11-29 13:03 +0800
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Unlimited felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-29 16:51 +1100
    Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2016-11-26 01:53 +0000
      Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@nunnya.business.com.au> - 2016-11-26 13:17 +1100
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2016-11-26 11:24 +0000
        Re: NBN 100Mbps @ $59 per month Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> - 2016-11-29 13:08 +0800

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