[LINK] Kain’s Story

[David Boxall]

> My experience started about 8 months ago. After numerous articles in 
> the paper, ads on TV and radio, the letterbox pamphlets and all the 
> typical fanfare that happens with a new technology, the NBN was 
> finally available in the area my family’s property is in! It would be 
> a huge improvement on the slow ABG Satellite and expensive yet 
> unreliable mobile broadband that we had at the time.
>
> After comparing plans, we chose a provider and signed up. Surely if we 
> could get mobile coverage we could get fixed wireless……. But it was 
> not going to be that simple. When the installer came out to do a 
> signal test, the result was not good, -106dBm. The cutoff was -96dBm. 
> No install for us. After calls to the RSP, NBN etc,the verdict was 
> we’d have to wait for the satellite service. But, being as stubborn as 
> I am, I started doing a bit of research to work out why we could not 
> get it.  After researching the tower locations on the mynbn.info 
> website and checking on Google maps, I worked out the signal was 
> blocked by a granite ridge behind the house. What about a mast on the 
> hill I thought? More calls to NBN and the result was bad luck, we were 
> listed as unable to get NBN. They wouldn’t send a tech out for another 
> signal test, even though I could literally see the NBN tower from the 
> top of the hill. Very frustrating!
<http://birrraus.com/2016/02/12/kains-nbn-non-standard-fixed-wireless-install/>

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