The "Never Never Broadband Network" - NBN complaints

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I agree with your dissatisfaction.

I would also suggest you talk to your close (22) neighbours and possibly your Council about an Area switch https://www1.nbnco.com.au/learn-about-the-nbn/network-technology/technology-choice-program/area-switch.html. This Area choice has a FDA (Quote) that would cost your group $1,100 so about $50 per household to find out NBNCo costs to give you all FTTC/FTTP depending on what choice you make. Currently it would be likely much cheaper to go FTTC and then when more financial as an area or as an individual go to fibre as they would lay fibre closer to you now ie your pits and use your existing copper to finish it to your houses.

There is a topic on this forum that discusses distances from the node affecting speed.

With NBN, distance from node determines speed

Interesting article in the Australian 29 March page 3.Previously the paper had published case studies of NBN complaints of slow speed. NBN checked the complaints and responded that all the cases were fibre-to-the -node and that the maximum speed that can be obtained on that system is 25Mbps, and that the further from the node the connection was, the slower the speed would be. Telstra is selling people on FtN systems 100Mbs packages and they can never deliver this - hence the complaints. It woul…

In there are several charts showing both speeds available from the node to a premises, this is a work in progress by it’s author so data is not complete.

http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com/nbnmtm.html

Also several charts that show distances greater than 400m are linked/copied into the topic

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I hope these links are helpful to you.