Enterprise Ethernet is certainly a better product, but the costs aren't necessarily suitable for a residential customer, regardless of the possibility of a free build (which is not always the case).
-----Original Message----- From: James Andrewartha <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 4:27 PM To: Beeson, Ayden <[email protected]> Cc: Philip Loenneker <[email protected]>; Jake Anderson <[email protected]>; Skeeve Stevens <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FTTC On Wed, 1 May 2019, Beeson, Ayden wrote: > That is spot on, but I haven’t seen a single quote come back that was in the > price range you would actually consider going ahead with. > > Admittedly that was for FTTN -> FTTP upgrades, but still I always got the > feeling those “choices” were priced to make it unaffordable to regular > consumers on purpose, meaning that quote price is effectively sunk money. > > I’ll be very interested to see what the FTTC -> FTTP quotes come back at, > it’s a lot less fibre length to run but still requires a lot of the same > types of work in the end so I’m not expecting much. $5100 https://whrl.pl/Rfme7I which is ridiculous although these posts from 2016 https://whrl.pl/ReLT5w and https://whrl.pl/ReLVZj claim why it's expected. Really if you want fibre you may as well take advantage of the free builds on nbn enterprise ethernet at the moment than do a tech change. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
