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Have you plugged your address into nbnco.com.au to check for service to your house?In my area there are existing cable lines everywhere, and there are telstra/foxtel and optus cable boxes on the outside of my house. My area uses HFC for connection to the NBN. When I switched to NBN, all they did was give me a new modem which connected to an existing internal telstra cable connection. The modem is, in turn, connected to my router. I believe that NBN tries to use whatever infrastructure is currently available in your area if it supports the speeds offered by NBN. If cable is already strung up to a large percentage of houses in your area, I would be surprised if they don't just re-use it.
Hi John, They should definitely let you stay on that plan. When the time comes and they contact you with offers just say you want to stay on the existing deal $99 p/m with existing arrangements and they will just send you an nbn compatible router.. Easy peasy.
Hi John ,Some areas get the cable to the door,but most will still use existing wires to connect to a "node" somewhere near you. The nodes are painted an olive (?) green and will be on the footpath not far from the old phone junctions. Big push by telstra to sign up in our area, they can wait a while.
Although I am a Velocity as well as Qantas Frequent Flyer, I'm on Belong NBN.
Quote from: Dazzler on May 27, 2017, 01:47:15Hi John, They should definitely let you stay on that plan. When the time comes and they contact you with offers just say you want to stay on the existing deal $99 p/m with existing arrangements and they will just send you an nbn compatible router.. Easy peasy.Thanks Dazz, yes will stay on that plan unless they can knock another $40 off for a similar plan . I wonder if the router I have now will still suit,oh well time will tell. Hope yours works out well, be good if they can get the nbn cable to your front door. What ever way it sounds like it will be a big improvement for you speed wise etc.
When we built 6? years ago, it was Velocity or nothing. No other NBN providers were permitted access to T's Fibre here & there were no copper lines in the estate.From our NTD were 4 cables - 2 x cat5? (1 for internet & 1 for phone), a coax for FTA TV & another for power from box in garage.What I am attmpting to confirm, is if we change NBN providers, is the FTA TV signal still going to come through the NTD???As for connecting up, there was a delay with my router & a helpful chap on the 1800 number guided me through plugging a laptop directly into the internet socket & I was up & running until router arrived.We haven't had any contact indicating that we need to migrate from Velocity to NBN - actually there are better deals on T's NBN & I'll save $20?/month!
Quote from: John B on May 27, 2017, 02:30:48Quote from: Dazzler on May 27, 2017, 01:47:15Hi John, They should definitely let you stay on that plan. When the time comes and they contact you with offers just say you want to stay on the existing deal $99 p/m with existing arrangements and they will just send you an nbn compatible router.. Easy peasy.Thanks Dazz, yes will stay on that plan unless they can knock another $40 off for a similar plan . I wonder if the router I have now will still suit,oh well time will tell. Hope yours works out well, be good if they can get the nbn cable to your front door. What ever way it sounds like it will be a big improvement for you speed wise etc.Unfortunately we are in a rural area John. The closest Node is about 500 metres down the road. I am hoping for a bit of an improvement in speed but not expecting miracles. If a bit slow apparently you get the option (at extra cost ) to get a boost. So basically they start us country "plebs" off with a hobbled system which they will unlock at a cost.
Quote from: Dazzler on May 27, 2017, 08:03:25Quote from: John B on May 27, 2017, 02:30:48Quote from: Dazzler on May 27, 2017, 01:47:15Hi John, They should definitely let you stay on that plan. When the time comes and they contact you with offers just say you want to stay on the existing deal $99 p/m with existing arrangements and they will just send you an nbn compatible router.. Easy peasy.Thanks Dazz, yes will stay on that plan unless they can knock another $40 off for a similar plan . I wonder if the router I have now will still suit,oh well time will tell. Hope yours works out well, be good if they can get the nbn cable to your front door. What ever way it sounds like it will be a big improvement for you speed wise etc.Unfortunately we are in a rural area John. The closest Node is about 500 metres down the road. I am hoping for a bit of an improvement in speed but not expecting miracles. If a bit slow apparently you get the option (at extra cost ) to get a boost. So basically they start us country "plebs" off with a hobbled system which they will unlock at a cost. Yes $20 extra a month gives me 100 Mbps. I am in a dual living situation with my daughter & Grandsons so we split the cost of Broadband and extra speed . Grandson loves the fast speed to play his games with, apparently it stops him getting killed so much
We built 27 years ago and we'll have a node about 800 m away - worse than dazz