Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

2014-07-13 Thread Frank O'Connor
Loved this at the Guardian, in reply to an article in which Rupert Murdoch again trashed the NBN: Out here in Ust-Kamenogorsk in far east Kazakhstan, the government is putting in FTTP all across our city, old and new buildings alike, expanding to other cities and regions in Kazakhstan as they

[LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

2014-07-12 Thread Jan Whitaker
It's finally dawned on someone and they have yet to solve it. Nine months. ZERO connections to FTTN. http://michaelwyres.com/2014/07/turnbull-dismally-fails-first-nbn-test/ Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Twitter: JL_Whitaker JL Whitaker On A Life's Edge - US Amazon

Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

2014-07-12 Thread Frank O'Connor
Mmmm, There are any number of issues that haven't even been looked at with respect to those pesky nodes. There's the power thingie, as Jan mentions. There's the maintenance thingie (I mean, these 80,000 odd puppies are out there in the weather, being regularly opened and closed to

Re: [LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

2014-07-12 Thread JanW
At 09:05 PM 12/07/2014, Frank O'Connor you wrote: There's the mundane copper/fibre reliability thingie. Exactly how 'fit for purpose' is the majority of Telstra's copper, how much has oxidised and been damaged in bits of the 'final yards' that we don't know about? And the *current* cable