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Re: Wonders of wonders - NBN install worked.

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On Wednesday, 4 Jan 2017 3:38 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> After months of horror stories and an entirely negative experience of
> FTTP at work I approached the installation of FTTN at home with more
> than a small degree of trepidation.
>
> I bought a 4G pocket router and 10gigs worth of data so that we would
> at least have email and some browsing capability and waited.
>
> When I got home at lunchtime the phone no longer worked and the
> internet was down - i took this to be the signal that the cut over to
> FTTN had happened.
>
> I installed my (not theirs) pre-configured modem and to my utter
> amazement it connected up almost immediately.
>
> A test torrent or two indicates that I have (at present) slightly less
> real world performance than I had with the ADSL2+ but that isn't
> surprising as the ADSL port had been opened up to "whatever the
> bandwidth will bear" as part of fault resolution a long time ago.
>
> I am getting: 17.5 Mbps download & 3.48 Mbps upload - www.speedtest.net

on what tier? 25 mbs I presume

>
> Still - better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.

or even a sharp one..

>
>
> now lets see if it keeps working...

why wouldn't it

>   Later on I'll connect TPG's modem
> and see how that goes.
>
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Wonders of wonders - NBN install worked. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-04 04:38 +0000
  Re: Wonders of wonders - NBN install worked. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-04 17:04 +1100
  Re: Wonders of wonders - NBN install worked. noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2017-01-07 15:13 +1000
    Re: Wonders of wonders - NBN install worked. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-07 05:37 +0000

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