NBN finally reveals HFC rollout areas

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  1. Tekoz

    Tekoz Well-Known Member

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    @Simon Hampel and @GreatPig if that's the case then who decide to put the cable boxing/housing like that ? I guess there is no other way to relocate it anymore once it is set like that.
     
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    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    I've just received notification that nbn will be installed at my place between 23 November 2015 and 15 April 2016.

    Which is good to know. I'll arrange to be home.
     
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    Thanks for giving me something else to worry about :p
     
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    The installers did. They just located it on the wall near where the old Telstra cable came in. Indeed, I think they fed the cable in from the street through the same conduit as the Telstra cable.

    GP
     
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    @GreatPig - the Telco Act facilitates the sharing of the infrastructure including conduits.
     
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    @Geoff_w is that a free installation or do you have to pay ?
     
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    I thought that it would be using existing coaxial from the NBN description. But from your description it seems that it might actually be FTTN, except that you replace the last leg of copper with coaxial (which is most likely copper as well, but you know what I mean). Is that right? If so, that's great as I'm in a HFC area.
     
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    That's free installation up to to box outside the house.
     
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    It wasn't necessary for anyone to be home for them to do the installation, since it's all outside, but we were, and I did chat to the guy about it.

    We also got free internal installation from both NBN and Optus, which might be why they didn't want to go to much effort to do the installation.

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    The whole point of selling the HFC networks to NBN was to reuse the existing HFC as used by the Telstra and Optus Cable networks.

    It's kind of similar in concept to FTTN (fibre to a local distribution hub and then coax over the "last mile") ... but the implementation is very different.
     
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    I guess the last meal would really require a lot of coaxing. The signal would be really tired by then.
     
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