04-10-2021, 04:26 PM
We're on FTTN with the node just over 900m away. With our house telephone wiring sorted we were getting a not unexpected maximum line speed of 28/6Mbps, until NBN work in the area caused a drop to 18/6MBps which they've refused to fix, but that's another story.
I was wondering about an upgrade at some point to FTTC, because shortly before we were connected to the NBN their techs ran an optical fibre cable through a pit on our nature strip, apparently to feed a new node that was being put in somewhere.
These reports of interference from FTTC have dampened that thought. Our feed from the pit to the house is underground, but the two neighbors upstream from us have overhead feeds from a power pole.
I don't know what the NBN plan is re upgrading FTTN to FTTC or FTTP/FTTB. I have read that FTTC was being put in for areas that had poor FTTN speeds due to distance from a node or poor telecommunications cabling. Whether this will be the end state or the plan is to ultimately roll out FTTP/FTTB I don't know.
Interesting reading here:
Under the Hood with NBN FTTC Hardware (DPUs)
I was wondering about an upgrade at some point to FTTC, because shortly before we were connected to the NBN their techs ran an optical fibre cable through a pit on our nature strip, apparently to feed a new node that was being put in somewhere.
These reports of interference from FTTC have dampened that thought. Our feed from the pit to the house is underground, but the two neighbors upstream from us have overhead feeds from a power pole.
I don't know what the NBN plan is re upgrading FTTN to FTTC or FTTP/FTTB. I have read that FTTC was being put in for areas that had poor FTTN speeds due to distance from a node or poor telecommunications cabling. Whether this will be the end state or the plan is to ultimately roll out FTTP/FTTB I don't know.
Interesting reading here:
Under the Hood with NBN FTTC Hardware (DPUs)
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