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\"nbn_fibre_split\"With the CPE boxes installed and the fibre tail dug into your house, the third, and final, NBN contractor appointment brings the two ends together.<\/p>\n

The fibre tail is connected to the internal cable at the external ONT unit. The technician will then “make a phone call” to test the connection and do a fibre signal quality test.<\/p>\n

When the work is done (about 15-30 minutes) the internal ONT will display a green light for the active fibre connection.<\/p>\n

With all the physical networking complete, it’s then just a matter of getting the authentication details from your RSP and connecting to your newly provisioned fibre service. I did hear conflicting reports that this can take from one to 48 hours so your mileage may vary. In my case I contacted my RSP and within a couple of ours I had my authentication details.<\/p>\n

Actually conneting to an NBN service is much the same as DSL. Simply plug in your wireless router with the Ethernet WAN port to a UNIV-D port on the ONT, put in your auth details and connect with PPPoE. Your IPv4 and DNS settings will be obtained by the router.<\/p>\n

On a side note, the default login and password for my new wireless router was “admin\/admin” so little wonder I went ahead and changed it.<\/p>\n

Preliminary testing<\/h4>\n

What do you do when you’ve got NBN connected? Notice the speed difference of course!<\/p>\n

As part of this whole experiment I opted for an entry level NBN plan of 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up (12Mbps\/1Mbps). The DSL service I have is the theoretical maximum of 24Mbps\/buggerallMbps and I’m not that far from my exchange (about 1Km as the crow flies).<\/p>\n

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12Mbps\/1Mbps NBN FTTP speed test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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24Mbps ADSL speed test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A simple real world test immediately proved that the SLOWEST NBN plan is FASTER than the FASTEST ADSL plan available on the market. Of course, YMMV, but I believe I am not alone by any stretch of the imagination and thousands of people will experience the same outcome when moving from DSL to FTTP – let alone the high-speed fibre plans. This is the “real world” speed problem that FTTP overcomes. All FTTN will do is waste a lot of money reducing this problem and not solve it.<\/p>\n

Next, I’ll do some testing of VoIP over the NBN.<\/p>\n

What to do when the NBN comes to town blog series:<\/span><\/p>\n