[LINK] NBN gets to Albury, Sussan Ley is impressed

[Nicholas English]

They’ll also be useful places to tie your car to in a flood. You can’t do that with you FTTH!!

"new digital error” maybe?

Well, we’ve had some 1st world problems in our hose with faulty copper delivering 20% of its ADSL2+ capacity its whole 800m distance from an inner urban melbourne exchange.
so … what a lovely game …
<commence rant>
ISP help desk - its broken
network technician (never seen, never heard) - its fixed (not)
ISP - its broken but we have to send a tech
ISP tech arrives, requires leaving work early and working from home on sub-sub-optimal connection, (ahhh how I missed my 56kb dial up … I digress) - its broken
network tech - another morning ‘working’ from home - inside, its broken - outside pit, its broken - next pit down stream, its broken - its fixed “check you have internet now bloke”, I turn my back, he’s gone - its broken
ISP - its broken
ISP technician - validates its broken
network tech - booked … “oh and some one will need to be there “...
 (not holding my breath while fending off teenagers whose umbilical has been rudely severed)

Digressing again - In a previous incarnation I lived in the tropics and every December with start of the (proper) wet season our line was off, for at least 10 days so until the wall socket was replaced. Telstra found it more amusing to replace it 10 wet seasons in a row rather than refigure it. Now that’s a vision for infrastructure … at least now the FTTH NBN got there before the rest of it was Malcomised

<rant continues>
so the network technican in addition to sharing his insights on our immigration policy and 457 visas was really happy the current MrNBN, he’s got work until his super is ready, another 20+ years - I’m pretty sure his name was Joobson Grewth, but that might’ve been him in the photo but I’m probably wrong
</rant>

Having lived and worked remotely I am so glad this process that within 4km of the CBD only began in early August and continues..
So, please Honourable Ley, please show me 

Nicholas English
nik.english at gmail.com <mailto:nik.english at gmail.com>



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> On 20 Sep 2016, at 11:35 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> 
> https://twitter.com/sussanley/status/778031726790443008/photo/1
> 
> And Sussan Ley is trumpeting this as a success.
> 
> FTTH would have no big street box requiring maintenance, no
> environmentally bad batteries, no electronics with very limited upgrade
> options......
> 
> I guess it creates employment.
> 
> Politics trumps everything, until reality hits home.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Sydney Australia
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