The Off Topic Thread.

[Ezy2Confuze]

I would also do a lookup on iiNet & Telstra's sites as there are two NBN sites for lookups.

The main one said "construction commenced" for my area but the one Google finds for "NBN rollout map" which has the pins you can drag to your adress showed me it was ready to go.

So I did lookups on the two ISP sites I mentioned & a week later had two NBN techs turn up & patch from the NBN patch points to mine.

[discostig]

What a flawless system!

[Ezy2Confuze]

Well it is government run.

I'm guessing you have read that the Libs. are now funding NBN by a $20 billion loan. Funny how they've been tight lipped on how their push to get funding from the market went.

I bet they got laughed at thanks to the cr*ppy copper mtm mess they are rolling out which even they say is a stepping stone to FTTP.

[skidxr6t]

I actually know so many people on fiber to the home who are hellbent liberal supporters.

 

I love rubbing it in to them that their vote essentially denied this for many other people.

 

now we are going to spend more taxpayer money on an inferior solution but that's okay cause I GET HEAPS MORE WORK FROM FTTN PEOPLE THAN I DO FTTP PEOPLE.

 

and the whole argument against fiber to the home was the cost! well jeez the fiber rollout coulda been done better, you drive past some units and see that they all have a fiber leading to each individual unit, rather than a FTTB solution and new copper run to each unit. also it's hell funny on the NBN fiber gear you can literally pull the fiber out! this means they literally strip it, cleave it and shove it in the hole. No need for an expensive fiber splicer or even a skilled operator....

 

Edited 21/11/16 11:23 PM by skidxr6t

[Ezy2Confuze]

I bet the Libs. will be packing their dacks if Labor state they will go through the books next election to get a better idea where the money has been going.

[Pixy Angel]

Thanks guys hoping it gets sorted im bloody over speaking to the dickheads overseas.

A telstra field tech is coming out soon.

Standby for update

[Pixy Angel]

well the builder and his sh*tty trades strike again.

 

Telstra tech guys was good. Hooked up his stuff came inside did test and NOTHING!

You should have signal to inside. A little playing around he takes off the patch panel pulls the cables through to find that the line in is not connected and is about 1m down the from the other cables. The sparky should have ran another connection and never did.

This would come back to the sparky getting the sh*ts because I wanted it in our walkin not the garage. Deliberate act............NOT HAPPY and another email will be sent to the builder.

What farkwits!!

 

Now just need to work out how everything works now.

4 port patch panel and only 2 Ethernet ports on modem.

 

EDIT - I've got 4 CAT6 cables 1 for computer and each of the TV's do I need to get Ethernet cables or are they the same.

Edited 22/11/16 03:49 AM by Pixy Angel

[k31th]

You need a 4+ port switch and a few more cat6 cables to connect from the patch panel ports to the switch, with only one of those going from the switch to the router/modem . Hopefully the sparky fixes his line-in installation.

[skidxr6t]

probably the sparky doesn't know what the hell theyre bloody doing actually.

 

yet ANOTHER example of CRAPPY electricians...whats the bet the builder was being an asshole about payment and the comms stuff, which is too much for most electricians to understand.... so they gave zero fks about it because if it's done wrong nobody dies.

 

and I bet they have no idea what N.E.X.T stands for let alone what it means. saw a patch panel today with the wires untwisted by 20-40mm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO FREAKING IDEA! (a cat5/6/etc cable has 4 pairs (8 wires) and im talking about one of the pairs being excessively untwisted).

 

sorry for my rant but I see poor quality telecommunications installations done by electricians almost every day lately.

 

with the modem you can buy a cheap switch and connect a patch lead from the adsl modem to the switch. or just buy a single unit that does the ADSL as well.

Edited 22/11/16 04:04 AM by skidxr6t

[Pixy Angel]

Cheers guys agreed another great example of "I DONT GIVE A FARK" tradie.

 

I brought one on the weekend from Jaycar an 8 port for the lounge room. Will head back tomorrow for a 4 port.

 

Hope all works ok now.

 

EDIT - current connection speed is 23.5mbit/s

 

Good to be back. Missed anything?

Edited 22/11/16 04:23 AM by Pixy Angel