linda, that's wonderful! Pamper that eye, and it should be fine.
NBN technician was supposed to arrive between 1 and 5. He finally texted at 5:10, saying he was 5 minutes away. He's still here; it's a huge drama, with Optus points and Telstra points apparently being radically different. There was a tragi-comic sort of hunt for which of the many cables/lines downstairs might be the elusive Telstra one that the tech found running up from the street. Every room was examined with a lot of shoving and shifting to move desks and cabinets... Apparently we have a lot of sockets/connections/points, but none of them were the right one... until I found it in the exercise room. The Lord alone only knows why on earth there's a Telstra phone connection in the exercise room.
The Telstra cable runs through in a twisty can't-find-me sort of way until it is finally located downstairs in the back of the house in what I call the lumber room. There, on one of the diagonal beams, the Telstra cable (which I should call the NBN cable from here on) connected into one of those socket connecting tidy cover things...? They're telephone-coloured or socket-coloured - ivory/bone - and are made of telephone socket plastic. I'm sure you know what I mean! Anyway, within that (when the cover was removed) were a blue line and a white line which connected to the NBN cable. They in turn ran upstairs to the aforementioned exercise room line but also with a bit of jiggling(?) to the phone socket just behind the kitchen.
So...! It's going to be a temporary fix...? We're not to activate the NBN after he connects the NBN box, but rather we are to organise an electrician to cut the blue and the white lines that connect to the black Telstra cable (which is now the NBN cable), and connect loooong blue and white lines to those blue and white lines to the downstairs office where the internet must be. New phone point to be added by the electrician for this purpose. I can either have the phone connected there or - with the electrician's help - have the phone upstairs in a loop or something of that sort.
NBN technician has now gone, and his part is done.
Next step: contact electrician and get this done. The NBN saga continues...
