21,000 faulty NBN connections claimed

[nero_bolt]

Another LABOR failure and botched policy....... 

One of an Abbott Government’s toughest jobs will be to clean up the NBN mess and stop the bleeding of our billions:

THE company building Labor’s $37.4 billion National Broadband Network could be forced to repair tens... after cutting corners in the construction processes to boost the number of homes passed by the massive infrastructure project.

The Australian can reveal that as of last week, connections to as many as 21,000 - one in eight - of the 163,500 existing homes and businesses passed by the fibre network were considered to contain defects in the network construction…

The defects mean that network connections to thousands of homes and businesses, which have been classified as “ready for service”, may require repairs before users can access the internet on the new network.

NBN Co last night disputed the figures, admitting there were significant defects but insisting the total number was lower than the [NBN internal] figures obtained by The Australian.

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@para-sights wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

we'd need to replace the existing copper network we have for that to be possible in the first instance due to its degraded condition. makes no sense.

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Agreed.

"Fibre generally should be deployed in new (‘greenfield’) housing estates and wherever copper has to be
replaced (unless there are particular commercial reasons not to do so). There will also be established areas
where high maintenance costs or the condition of the copper renders FTTN unattractive and the best alternative is FTTP."

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Every time I saw Malcolm pinned down on this question he said copper would replace the copper to individual premises. Mostly he just rambled on and avoided giving a direct answer.  

[poddster]

Pray tell what is the problem you have with replacing faulty copper with new copper?

Putting in fibre would be like replacing a faulty car engine with a jet engine, expensive and all the changes that would have to be made.

[topsidesoul]

Would be nice to get an opinion from someone who actually works in this field and is currently dealing with the patch up problems telstra contractors are working with.

You know rather than political one upping or something I read that is 10 years old.

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@topsidesoul wrote:

Would be nice to get an opinion from someone who actually works in this field and is currently dealing with the patch up problems telstra contractors are working with.

You know rather than political one upping or something I read that is 10 years old.

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The links I posted are from people who have worked in the field for years.

This link ( http://issuu.com/broadbandproperties/docs/ftthprimeraus_aug13_webfinal ) was given to me by Paul Budde, one of the countries foremost experts. It's an International publication featuring our NBN in the latest edition.

http://www.buddeblog.com.au/

[topsidesoul]

With DVD and Blu ray being obsolete  and everything being stored in cloud I would think speeds would matter if media was stored in Australia on servers for  rent/distribuyion.

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@topsidesoul wrote:

With DVD and Blu ray being obsolete  and everything being stored in cloud I would think speeds would matter if media was stored in Australia on servers for  rent/distribuyion.

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Yes, high speed and low latency is required for a quality network capable of meeting our not too distant future needs.

[poddster]

I know of very few people who are comfortable with storage of their important data in the cloud.

With the low price, high reliability and local location of high capacity hard disk drives, storage in the cloud is rather silly.

The cost of a four terabyte raid one array able to be accessed at a one gigabit transfer rate being under $500 it would be foolish to have your important data somewhere in the cloud.

For those who are nof familiar with raid storage systems.

Raid 1 stores your data in 2 separate locations on 2 separate hard disks simultaneously. if one of the drives develops a fault you are alerted and all you data is still secure on the other drive. You them replace the faulty drive and the raid system rebuilds the new drive. so now you have 2 identical copies again.

A raid 1 system makes backups obsolete as there is always a second identical copy of you data available.

The "Cloud' is yet another useless "invention" that uninformed people are told that it is an advantage and a 'must have"

[lightningdance]

We will get the real truth on this soon enough. The Conroy will be livid he's become irrelevent, he's lied for years, wonder what he's hidden that will now have a light shone on it.

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@lightningdance wrote:

We will get the real truth on this soon enough. The witless Conroy will be livid he's become irrelevent, he's lied for years, wonder what he's hidden that will now have a light shone on it.

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What will Conroy be livid about?

[spotweldersfriend]

Look,Rupert doesn't want the NBN. Isn't that good enough reason to ditch it?