Where is my High-Speed Internet - NBN and the Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial ...

When will my Internet Speed get quicker??

This month I was supposed to get my new high speed internet, thanks to Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). It was to my surprise.... Actually it wasn't really a surprise considering the stuff ups this whole project has undergone, that my connection to the NBN is being delayed somewhere between 6 and 9 months......WTF!

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This just goes to show what a huge balls up this whole roll out has been. How can a 'guestimate' timeline from such a large company be given with an around about installation time give or take 3 months!

I have always said that as soon as the plan was altered away from Fibre to the Premises, the NBN was already out of date.

So why the delay?

Apparently the NBN purchased an old and decaying Coaxial cable network from Telstra to rollout large sections of the NBN across Australia. In older suburbs , they are now finding that the coaxial cables are so old that they are 'leaking' internet connection speeds at an alarming rate.

NBN Co's announcement last week that it would cease selling services on its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network has revealed one of the biggest errors in judgment the company has made under a Turnbull-Abbott led government.
The government-owned NBN Co blamed "interference" — which was leading to dropouts and unacceptable broadband service on a minority of users' services — for the decision, which will result in an average delay of between six to nine months for millions of households looking to sign up.

But NBN Co first discovered that interference might become a problem down the track in mid-2016, Fairfax Media has learned, when the first HFC asset transfers occurred between Telstra and NBN Co.

At the time, NBN management made the risky judgment call that it would not be a huge an issue. While it suspected that interference would cause some headaches in the rollout, NBN management didn't fully realise the extent to which Telstra's HFC network was in need of repair, or in the words of NBN Co engineers and management, "optimisation".
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So here I am sitting and waiting, hoping that one day I will be able to move away from an ADSL2+ plan that struggles to get any healthy speeds across a copper network that is pushing 50+ years of age. Hopefully I do not fall victim to the NBN and experience slower speeds than I already have (as has been seen in some areas).

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