[LINK] NBN domestic installations

[David Lochrin]

Thanks, Paul, for all your input.

On 2016-03-03 22:22 Paul Brooks wrote:

> And you can only plug your existing router straight in to the NTU if you have a relatively new one with dual uplink ports, ADSL + Ethernet. The vast majority of the existing ADSL1/2/2+ modem fleet don't have any Ethernet WAN port, just the DSL port, so will need to be binned in any case.

But an NTU is only supplied for FTTP installations, yes?  So with an FTTN installation the VDSL2 cable goes straight to the user's modem/router, which should support VoIP.

And the domestic POTS wiring should be physically isolated from the VDSL signal as I suspected.  I think this would be necessary regardless of whether it's starred or daisy-chained (which I believe is officially required).

So the average non-technical NBN user would have to fund an electrician to connect the VDSL appearance to their modem/router, and also to isolate the existing POTS wiring and connect it to the router's VoIP FXS port.

I think the VDSL2 specification requires it to be negotiable down to ADSL2+ (and ADSL2?) but not vanilla ADSL.

David L.