This Government is renound for statements of intent, or making statements about huge outlays only to find out that it is over many years and in reality is no/only slightly more than usually spent.
Unfortunately with this Government we are not going to get the improvements to the NBN we sorely need and should have been implemented in the first place.
…as well as some of the claimed spend was already spent over previous years, but included as if it were new money. Despite evidence, much of the electorate still considers them as the better managers. It says a lot about those voters or the opposition or both.
Apologies @SueW. I was responding assuming some of those reading these posts might find a little more detail in the explanation helpful. Not all of us may be conversant with what we are talking about when Nodes and Pillars are mentioned. Maureen initially posted of living in the valley and referring to the exchange, which you clarified may not be the correct assumption re the termination point of the copper service to her property.
The greater knowledge is not mine, it’s already outlined in the NBN design rules.
https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/network-design-rules.pdf
It’s very techie. Section 2.4 outlines the basic configuration of the FTTN system design. Simplified the NBN Nodes contain VDSL2 DSLAMs which provide a service over a copper connection for each customer.
Where the NBN makes that copper interconnect between the DSLAM in the Node ‘cabinet’ and customers copper line there is the following rule.
Discovery of such documents online is usually obscured as searching for anything with NBN in the search text usually returns service offers or marketing.
One way to find out a little bit more concerning your FTTN service capabilities is to log into the RSP supplied modem to find the line link speed and conditions. There is an example report in the Telstra Crowd Support link in my previous post. It may be possible RSP technical support have access to the same data from their end? It was true of ADSL services.
Indeed the pillars still exist in most places, but between them and the Node is copper. The pillar allows the Techs to use different pairs to connect to a house. The VDSL signal requires the copper connection and that is why between the Node (which has the nbn™ VDSL modems), pillar and home is a copper connection. At the node the DSL traffic is converted to and from laser light and that is transmitted over the fibre to and from the internet ( often termed fibre backhaul). In some places where a full Node was not in place micro nodes are used and they may not have a pillar but may use copper cable bundles in the pits.
Wait - posts or pillars?
