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Re: NBN HFC

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Ozix wrote:
> My elderly mother spilt a cup of coffee over the NBN NTD. All the 
> lights were flashing 90 to the dozen, so I thought faark. I cleaned it 
> up with metho then called Telstra support desk, telling help dork that 
> NTD is defective. After 20 minutes of stupid questions, he says NBN 
> tech will come out. So next day contractor comes out, first thing he 
> does is swap out the NTD for a new unit, and it will not connect. The 
> old one did until it had a drink. Then he has a look outside and then 
> declares that the coax running along the carport roof is fucked and 
> will have to be redone. So it ended up being a 4-hour job. Or maybe 
> Jims Cabling was just trying to suck more money of NBNCo?

well obviously it didn't need new cabling since the connection was fine 
before the box took a liking to coffee. so obviously the contractor is 
just ripping off the NBN.

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