Only House in The Suburb without NBN?

Ljoinerjill on 13/02/2019 - 21:24

Hey guys,

Wondering if anyone here has had any experience with getting NBN when you have been left out of the initial rollout? Every house bar mine and 1-2 others have NBN in my suburb, the reason given by NBN co. being that only X amount of switches were available and we missed out. They 'estimate' waiting another 6 months/year.

I was just going to cop it and wait, however several other houses in my street that were initially in the same boat have since gotten NBN (NBN map previously had same 'wait till later' message as us, but now are all connected…). I've tried without luck complaining to NBN co, but considering just starting to contact Telco's and asking for them to install NBN and see what happens?

Any stories/advice appreciated! I live in an area with horrible ADSL 2 speeds so really need a faster connection.

Cheers.

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Comments

  • BargainDog on 13/02/2019 - 21:28

    I'm still waiting for NBN but had shocking ADSL connection speeds. I switched over to Optus 4G and I'm getting around 20Mbps during peak hours and upto 40 offpeak.. and i'm in a hole of a spot.

    No regrets going on Optus

  • serpserpserp on 13/02/2019 - 21:51
    +1

    That sucks. Reminds me of the old "not enough ports at the local exchange" issue that people had back in the ADSL heyday.

  • pinchies on 13/02/2019 - 21:57
    +3

    How on earth can they be allowed to deliberately plan not to have enough switches for every house, plus future subdivision - for a national network that is supposed to be for everyone? That must be so frustrating!

  • whooah1979 on 13/02/2019 - 22:10

    only X amount of switches were available

    Did NBN say switches? What type of technology are they provisioning in your suburb?

  • El Grande on 13/02/2019 - 22:19

    I was on optus cable which was more stable and faster than NBN. Oh and NBN was $50 more for the same plan. Try and see if you can connect to a cable plan.

  • the Unforgiven on 14/02/2019 - 12:55

    Contact an RSP you want to be with & they will do their stuff to get you connected; just sit back & wait to see what you can get.

    Worse comes to worst, you can get satellite like me. I tried to get off satellite because of the ping making web pages load slowly. There is a fairly new satellite exchange in town with spare ports, but I can't get a port because Telstra has the exchange full.

    It is not full as I had 'someone' check it out in person, it is just congested. How can a fairly new exchange in a town with only 150 people be congested?

  • askme69 on 14/02/2019 - 13:58

    I had the NBN (FTTP) 1 year before anyone else in my block of townhouses could get it. Being proactive, when i seen the NBN guys pull up stumps one day and they hadn't put a pit in the front of my group of town houses, i bailed a guy up and asked him what was happening. He said ours will be done when they do the BLOCK of townhouses on the street behind (12-18 months time).

    Anyway, i spoke to a young guy who was a contractor with them and he said he will take care of it. Next day, I had the connection at the house, he ran a cable from a pit 200m down the road, past a reserve and to my door. LEGEND.

    The only problem i have now is that no provider can find my service as it does not exist on the rollout map. So I am stuck with Barefoot.

    • the Unforgiven on 15/02/2019 - 18:36

      Can't you say to the RSP's, I have a connection you can come out and check it out in person, it is just not in the 'books'?

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