NBN for those who don't know stands for National Broadband Network and I
now have my FTTP - Fibre To The Premises - installed.
I'm on the "Silver" pacakge meaning I get around 2.5MB down and 500KB up
which isn't all that much better than I was achieving with my ADSL -
1.7MB down and 100KB up - but I was perfectly happy with my ADSL system
speeds so if the NBN does just as well then I'll keep being happy, the
only reason I took the NBN offer was due to the fact that all the copper
landlines are being disconnected so - regretable as it is - Fibre seemed
the way to go.
I'll miss the old PSTN network for a variety of reasons but the main
being those times of emergency's, my NBN service has a battery backup as
part of it but that can only last so long and then there's the issue of
the Lead Acid battery itself which has to be replaced every 2-4 years
but still better than having no phone at all.
Anyway to the Installation of the wole system which took place on Monday.
The NBN consists of 3 boxes, the utility box out the front of my house
takes the cable in from the street and from there the Fibre goes into
the home to the termination box where other equipment is connected.
The termination box has 4 WAN ports so it can be set to use four
different accounts if you like, I'm only using one. These Wan ports use
a standard Ethernet cable to connect to your computer, router or such
depending on your situation, in my case I have an Ethernet cable running
from my Asus RTAC3200 Wireless Router to Data Port one of the
termination obx./
The termination box also contains two standard analogue phone jacks for
the connection of a standard analogue phone or fax service, I'm yet to
have these facilities connected but I do intend to retain my standard
PSTN Phone and Fax services so all will be done in good time and I'm
expecting my PSTN phone to be connected very shortly.
The third box to be installed is the Power Supply Battery Backup unit
which simply supplies power to the Termination box and switches to the
charged lead acid battery contained therein when the power fails.
So that's the NBN from my end and I've no complaints, well the only one
I have is that the morning installation appointment I had turned into an
Afternoon appointment but such things often can't be helped.
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