{"id":484,"date":"2013-05-29T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=484"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:17:35","slug":"what-to-do-when-the-nbn-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"What to do when NBN comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-489\" alt=\"nbnco_worker_back\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/nbnco_worker_back.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/nbnco_worker_back.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/nbnco_worker_back-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As it happens I&#8217;m one of the lucky few pre-Abbottians with NBN fibre rollin&#8217; past my door so I thought I&#8217;d share my experiences on what to expect and do when NBN Co (and contractors) start digging up your street.<\/p>\n<p>This may prove useful to people wondering what the NBN is all about and whether it is worthwhile to them. In my professional reporting I have been critical of the way the government instituted a new federal bureaucracy (NBN Co) do deliver a national high-speed broadband (which I still stand by), but there&#8217;s no doubt FTTP is unequivocally the superior choice compared with wireless, DSL, and FTTN. Why, because it overcomes the tyranny of distance, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>FTTP represents the only hope of delivering close to the advertised broadband speeds across the overwhelming majority of its geographic footprint. FTTN still suffers from the same &#8220;distance from POP is inversely proportional to the real world speed you get&#8221; problem of DSL.<br \/>\nAnyway, let&#8217;s not start a debate on the technical merits of different broadband access technologies. That&#8217;s beyond the scope of this blog series. Let&#8217;s focus on what to do when the NBN comes to town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a series of blog posts that will (maybe) cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community awareness and NBN Co marketing campaigns<\/li>\n<li>Pit and node upgrades and installations<\/li>\n<li>Tunneling and conduit\/pipe work<\/li>\n<li>Laying of the aggregate fibre<\/li>\n<li>Splitting the fibre and connection to the premises<\/li>\n<li>Connecting to an RSP<\/li>\n<li>Some cost\/speed benchmarking against DSL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happens I&#8217;m one of the lucky few pre-Abbottians with NBN fibre rollin&#8217; past my door so I thought I&#8217;d share my experiences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[70,69,71,67,68],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-internet","tag-broadband-2","tag-fttp","tag-internet","tag-nbn","tag-nbnco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}