Re: Fibre

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Fibre
Date	2016-12-23 15:18 +1100
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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Rod Speed wrote:
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>>
>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ec3g5rFs9tmU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>>
>>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ebtlumFg026U1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:58591401$0$7207$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>> Rod Speed 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> About three weeks ago I saw some one having a snooze near our node
>>>>> with his head resting on a small pit between node and a pole and
>>>>> jumped when I came up, he pretended to talk down the pit then he
>>>>> said he was connecting power to node box.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting point, it isnt at all obvious how the power gets to the
>>>> node box.
>>>>
>>>> None of ours have any connection to the mains poles.
>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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 ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not that useful into 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (probably dig it up again, more fake news
>>>>>>> by "our media" paid for by politicians)
>>>
>>> Allegedly its available today in my part of town.
>>>
>>> I'd just decided that they weren't going to do that on the
>>> day before Xmas Eve but they have just dumped me face
>>> down in the mud on that apparently.
>>
>> It does appear to be available today at my place.
>>
>> I was originally planning to stay with dodo until my contract ran out,
>> 8 months @ $24/month break fee. Not attractive in the long term,
>> myrepublic.net is much better value for 100/40 unlimited, $60, dodo
>> wants $100 for that. Dodo will allow you to change to the NBN with
>> no contract penalty, but that involves a whole new 2 year contract.
>>
>> Dodo's retention people could only offer me $95/month but were
>> happy to halve the break fee to just $99.
>>
>> I signed up with myreplublic.net, but that froze on the final screen.
>> Rang them, but have now been on hold for 25 mins.
> I just ran my address through NBN and it said estimated start Jan 2017

Try
https://www.finder.com.au/nbn-tracker/map?address=

It is spot on with my place and my half of the town.
The other half of the town has 20-Jan-2017

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