[LINK] FTTP soon normal

[Tom Worthington]

On 25/04/14 18:20, Stephen Loosley wrote:

> ... FTTP model directly contradicts statements by Communications
> Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the telco is focusing on the
> Coalition’s preferred Fibre to the Node model ...

In practice there may be little difference between FTTP and FTTN, due to 
the last 3m, in old homes.

An acquaintance recently had the NBN installed in their home. The 
installer was unable (or unwilling) into run the fibre to the home 
office where the computer wass. The installer said the fibre was not 
flexible and so could not be bent around the tight spaces under the 
house. This sounds more like an excuse for not undertaking a difficult 
installation to me.

So the fibre now terminates in a cupboard in the centre of the house, 
about 3m from the office. The householder is then left with the problem 
of how to get the data the last 3m. They are reluctant to run copper 
cable internally and can't easily run it under the floor, for the same 
reason the fibre installer did not want to go there.

The householder asked me about using Ethernet over power. My initial 
reaction was against this, as it seems a shame to carry potentially 
gigabytes of data into the house on a nice clean optical cable and then 
try and push it over a dirty electrical cable (which might do 200 mbps). 
But then what other choice do they have: wireless?

For old houses, perhaps NBN should adopt FTTW (Fibre to the Wall): run 
the fibre to where the existing phone cable enters the house and splice 
the NBN into the phone cable. The householder's existing phone would 
then operate as normal and broadband could be provided either over the 
same phone cable using ADSL, by Ethernet over power, or WiFi.


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