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Originally Posted by julianh72
Virtually none of the millions of premises which will be connected to FTTN or FTTC will get the internal wiring rectified by the NBN contractors when they are connected. Most existing homes in Australia would have two or more phone points. Almost all of those homes will get a sub-optimal FTTN / FTTC internet connection if the home wiring isn't fixed.
In many cases, the connection is "good enough" (especially if you're only going for a 25 Mbps connection or slower), but if you want to get the best internet connection you can, you really should look at testing your synch speeds, and getting the wiring fixed.
As I said - this is one of the hidden costs of the Abbott & Turnbull "cheaper, faster, more affordable" MTM - and most people aren't even aware that it is an issue.
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Absolutely agree. It all boils down to what was posted above about techs getting a job rate, so long as it passes the techs wont spend the 30 seconds it takes with a screwdriver, or Krone tool if the house is younger, to disconnect lines heading inwards form the demarcation point. The buggers even fit the modems on peoples kitchen benches, next to the sink, if that is where what they reckon is the first socket happens to be. Better for them to be off tot he next job.
A mate was working for a tier two contractor until recently (When they moved him from a technical into a finance role, and then the (Perth) finance man he was now working for decided he did not want to have his offsider in Melbourne where the techs were)
Talking to him over the last year, the margins for what they were doing (The street work on the cooper for FTTC) were so thin that any revisit for any reason to a job site left that one underwater. Literally if they missed one photo for the as-built pack (Without which they wont get paid) and had to go back from the next job two streets away, the time cost meant it was a loss maker, potentially on both jobs.