Received NBN Installation Notification in Letterbox

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  follow on 22/02/2018 - 02:26

  +1

  cutoff is 18 months from when area becomes live

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    Nugs on 22/02/2018 - 05:19

    if you are on ADSL only I thought, isn't Optus cable it's 'own network' (not copper).

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      [Deactivated] on 22/02/2018 - 05:51

      Optus cable is the HFC network

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        Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 13:47

        Yes, the NBN website states my area is HFC.

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    shapers on 22/02/2018 - 08:34

    I got told by Telstra yesterday that it's 6 months (trying to delay it as long as possible too)

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      Diji1 on 22/02/2018 - 10:46

      Unless you're getting NBN speeds … why delay?

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        shapers on 22/02/2018 - 11:01

        We're on telstras highest speed cable so it wouldn't make much difference apart from the upload speed. Have only heard negative things about the NBN in my area

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        Diji1 on 22/02/2018 - 11:12

        @shapers: I am in the same situation.

        I am assuming since Telstra is still twice the price of it's competition on NBN that they will supply an unmetered service with the same speed and performance level currently - which are excellent - but uploads will be 40 rather than 2.5Mbit.

        Speeds currently on non-NBN Telstra HFC are usually excellent.

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  [Deactivated] on 22/02/2018 - 05:53

  If you don’t switch to NBN you will have to use a mobile dongle type modem/plan, or have a good mobile plan/not use much data.

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    Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 14:12

    We stream digital TV daily which rules out expensive mobile broadband.

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  whooah1979 on 22/02/2018 - 06:41

  I don't wish to switch to the NBN

  There are people crying that they can’t get nbn and here you’re not wanting it. Why don’t you want nbn?

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    bb_hunter on 22/02/2018 - 08:06

    +1

    Consider how lucky you are I been waiting for my HFC remediation to finish since Nov last year, my ADSL is down to useless speed.

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    Iggemo on 22/02/2018 - 10:47

    +3

    Because (a) NBN is worse than many existing connections, and (b) NBN is more expensive than virtually all existing connections. It's actually a miracle the NBN is so bad. How you can spend $60 billion-odd and make something worse is next level incompetence. I too will be delaying till the last possible day, i don't want the NBN either; i would have preferred Turnbull did nothing, saved the money, and just let a proper forward-thinking government do it properly when they get elected.

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      Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 14:18

      We've heard all the bad stuff. I too fear the worst and having to make endless phone calls to have faults rectified.

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    Beanvee on 22/02/2018 - 11:56

    +1

    I'm on 100mbs HFC from Telstra.
    Telstra recently refunded 40,000 people because when their HFC cutover from Telstra's own network to NBN, their speeds dropped from 100mbs to 25mbs.
    That's why I don't want it.

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    Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 13:40

    Optus Cable is working very well and I'm worried about the digging work stated on card. A lot of concrete in my front yard

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  JimmyF on 22/02/2018 - 08:32

  +1

  I am current on Optus Cable and have not had any letters from Optus about this at all.

  Why would they? NBN are doing the work, not Optus!

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  altomic on 22/02/2018 - 10:12

  is your cable underground?

  I received a similar "digging" notice but my cable is above ground.

  if NBN is coming then you have no choice when they switch it over. (the whole cable network in your area will be used for NBN).

  I was on Optus cable and wrongly assumed that there would be a choice. My erroneous thinking was "if i stay on cable, and everyone switches to NBN, then there will be less congestion" = Derp!

  Optus cable is fine. They gave me the speed pack when they initially changed me over. I then reverted to the cheapest cable option (with the slowest speed) and it is now very basic/slow. I can't stream. if I'm downloading then I set the download before I go to bed or before I go to work - as it is extremely slow and ties up my internet so using anything else becomes frustrating slow.

  save money and experience the occasional frustration of slow internet speed OR fast internet but more cost.

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    Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 13:46

    No, the cable is from the power line from power poll on the nature strip and connects to the front side of the roof of our house.

    So you've switched to NBN but chose a cheaper plan. How long did they give you till you were forced to switch?

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      altomic on 22/02/2018 - 13:54

      there won't be any digging. It is just a standard note.

      they just gave a date that NBN would be turned on, and Cable would be over. I think it was about 3 months from notice to go. the process was relatively painless. a dude had to come along and install a second box next to my cable modem (NBN HFC Premises Connection Device).

      originally (after NBN arrived) I was on a better NBN plan (than the cable). I'm just cheap and after 6 months or so of NBN fast plan, Optus announced some cheaper home bundles and I went with a cheaper option (but some fustratingly slow speeds. e.g. used to download torrents up to 8Mbs, now would be very lucky to get 500Kbs

      When switching over, the IP can't bump you down to a worse plan nor charge you more. that is apparently part of the service provider agreement the IP has with the NBN authority.

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        Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 14:10

        If it's the same existing Cable then all is fine. Another small unsightly box won't really hurt either.

        I just need to wait for Optus or NBN to give us a switch off date.

        Thanks

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  enigma48 on 22/02/2018 - 10:25

  I just received it too - if you look in the bottom right of the notice, it'll say there's nothing you need to do (yet). NBN are doing some work to prepare, you're NOT being switched yet.

  If you have life support, an absolute need to be online 24/7 (they may cause a brief outage), etc then you get in touch with them and tell them to wait/no/reschedule. Otherwise, just let it happen: you probably won't notice anything and this doesn't mean you're changing to NBN yet.

  I'm on Optus cable (Clifton Hill) and while it's available in the area, it went live less than 6 months ago. There's still an HFC NBN embargo: no new connections while they fix the HFC issues - so we're a long way off from being forced on to the NBN. In another Clifton Hill share house last year, I was on HFC NBN and I'm in no rush to go back: we had brief outages 1-10 times per day (before they fessed up and started the embargo).

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    Wallace on 22/02/2018 - 14:04

    It states "We visited your premises to have the equipment installed that you need to connect to the NBN network".

    But it does state to "Please phone xxx within next 24hrs to discuss the work".

    So, I think I understand now. They're planning for area wide installations but not shutting down cable yet.

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  mccarthyp64 on 04/03/2018 - 02:30

  Optus HFC areas won't be using the same network for NBN. The Optus HFC network is dilapidated and NBNco bought it as is. I believe the plan is to rollout FTTC instead.