Re: Fibre

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Fibre
Date	2016-12-20 13:03 +1100
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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:06:47 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:cnpg5c9bf6vusbm88kc30cfi77vptfk25k@4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:12:41 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:eb99lrFhkeiU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>> F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>> It is all thumb twiddling and testing now, apparently it has been
>>>>>> connected and has been for ages, just waiting,maybe just a month or 
>>>>>> so
>>>>>> for them to try it all out before they give it to us.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what happened ?
>>>>>
>>>>> You don't see too much activity at all here now, tho there are
>>>>> still a few pillars with the temporary covers with the long handles
>>>>> down each side. Looks unlikely we will be seeing anything before
>>>>> Xmas. Maybe they don't have enough testers or something.
>>>>>
>>>>> First sign of any activity was 12-Aug, that still gives a full month
>>>>> to go if mine is as slow as Keith's was, 5 months in his case.
>>>>
>>>>Just had someone whining in the local facebook group that Telstra
>>>>has refused to fix a phone fault because the NBN is imminent here,
>>
>>> How "imminent" is it
>>
>>Currently predicted to be next month, Jan.
>>
>>Which fits with what Keith saw, we still have one month to go before
>>we have the same 5 months from starting to available he got.
>>
> Here's hoping.
>
>>> you saw something happen months ago.
>>
>>Yes, first visible activity, digging the holes
>>for the nodes/green boxes was 12-Aug.
>>
>>> but nothing seems to of moved?
>>
>>There was lots of visible activity for 3 months. In the first couple
>>of weeks they were digging the holes for the green boxes with
>>mid sized trucks and then putting those on their own concrete
>>pads with multiple poly pipes to the relatively adjacent pillar.
>>
>>Then for about 2 months after that there were usually white vans
>>parked near the boxes and monkeys fiddling with the wires in one
>>end. I spoke to one of them when he was doing that and you could
>>see that he was terminating the multicore cable on the vertical panel
>>up the entire narrow section in one of the green boxes. I said 'the
>>electronics is down there presumably', pointing to the rest of the
>>box which had the door still closed on it and he said 'yep'.
>>
>>Sometimes the van was parked beside an existing pit with
>>a monkey or two in the pit. Wasn't obvious what they were
>>doing down there when I stopped and talked to one of them.
>>
>>There hasn't been as much activity in the last month but you
>>do sometimes see someone down another prexisting pit still.
>>
>>Some of the pillars still have temporary covers on them,
>>with long handles right down each side. But at least one
>>of them actually has the usual lettering on it so it may
>>not actually be a temporary cover anymore.

> I think a lot of pillars are removed?

Hasn't happened here.

>>> Like Sydney's light rail still not past the good
>>> coffee shop in Martin place after two years now?
>>
>>Sure, but that is obviously a lot more work that with the NBN.
>>
> I think it's the coffee shop.
> When a new line was being put from Macathur to Airport a lot of times
> buses were used claimed trackwork. But looking out bus windows all
> backhoes etc was idle. Turned out it was a scam
>
>>> Light rail have made a big deal about actually laying some
>>> track on George St between Park St and Bathurst St?
>>> Meant to start at Circular Quay, this strip is around the length on
>>> ones property
>>
>>How long did it take for the existing light rail to get done ?
>>
> 16 months
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulwich_Hill_Line#Construction>
>
>>Not that useful info tho because it went along the old rail
>>right of way, particularly when it got out past the edge of
>>the CBD out where the PowerHouse Museum is.
>>
> As with Macathur to Airport line one has to check for scams.
> Seems there is a "normal" amount of junk not removed over the
> centuries, the construction company is claim they need to check
> out carefully what it is. I suspect it's more of a scam than reality.
> The "posh" suburbs are "suddenly" finding artifacts
> (didn't stop there house or alterations ever before)
> <http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-after-massive-indigenous-artefact-find-20160329-gnsxr4.html>

>>> (probably dig it up again, more fake news
>>> by "our media" paid for by politicians)

> My U-Bute bus stop was put up I thought it great, the next
> week they are digging it up, the concrete slab was 4 inches
> think, the council require 8 inches  (it's back up now)?

Stupid bastards.

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