I'm so glad that end users are starting to jump up and down about this and making as much noise as possible about the ridiculous choices the Australian government has made in relation to telecommunication infrastructure in this country. If the National Broadband Network (NBN) was a private organisations, their executives and shareholders would have been shown the door a long time ago.
I've posted about my experiences with the NBN here but I'll outline it again in this thread. It's been exactly a year since I had the NBN installed and I'm still having daily drop-outs. I must have spent 10+ days off work for techs to chase their tails (that's if they showed up at all), countless hours on the phone to my provider, spent hours writing e-mails to everyone I can think of, complained to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and have even been interviewed live on radio 2GB in Sydney. Yet, I'm still stuck with a maximum attainable line sync of 30Mbps down and 10Mbps up.
But get this, NBN Co. seem to think that the ageing, brittle, corroded copper lines is good enough in this day and age. Between me and the node (where it then turns into fibre), I have about 800 metres of copper line. If it were in good condition, I should be able to reliably attain
at least double the line sync I'm getting now. But no, I'm stuck in shitty Fibre to the Node technology which is up and down like a yo-yo. NBN Co. seem to think that that as long as the end user can attain a minimum sync speed of 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up in a 24-hour period, that's "good enough" not to be classified as a fault (regardless of what speed tier you are willing to pay for).
I don't know why these clowns insist on continuing their roll-out when so many areas in Australia have sub-standard, poor quality and unreliable FTTN connections. They need to be focussing on getting this stuff right before they even think about laying more cable in new areas.
Bill Morrow (the CEO of NBN) is a complete an utter arse hat. He seems to think that the crap his company is dishing out will satisfy Australians. He has also been in the media blaming the resellers (telcos) for the issues and basically prentending there isn't a problem. He was quoted not long ago saying:
“The reason I am confident is because this thing is selling like hot cakes,” he said.
“Demand is greater than we had ever anticipated and the No 1 question is when are we getting the NBN.”Yes, no shit Sherlock! Because as soon as an area gets the NBN, it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to order anything else. ADSL, ISDN etc... don't exist any more. You either connect to the NBN or you rely on your mobile phone.
You only have to take one look at NBN Co's own
Facebook page to see customers aren't happy. Almost every comment spanning YEARS is negative.