NBN ready for service! so close to no more mobile broadband

doubt its years prob a week or 2

ill be ringing them up every week eventually they’ll give in and give me some info or fix whatever is wrong with the tower :) (you would think they would test it before switching to build complete) already done it twice didn’t get much other then its now “delayed”

gotta envy NZ’s version of the NBN ours could have been so much better but liberals

yeh toowoomba is my POI and its on the 25-50/5-20 trial so i think i should get it too when i finally get hooked up(if telstra is part of the trial) and theres no neighboring tower atleast not yet but i think there will be plenty of slots the whole area is min 5 acre blocks and i doubt there would be above 50pct uptake here(lots of old people dont see many sat dishes) wont stop me from ringing constantly though im keen on changing asap

speeds should be solid afaik everyone should get the full 25mbps in the service area(ofcourse your ISP might have issues etc speedtests i have seen has show it around 23 or so) so it should be able to do much better closer to the tower if ever uncapped(since like most services speed drops with signal)

as for phone ill still be on the copper its one of the reason why i stuck with telstra(might be the only reason(national calls add up) and would be a pain to change it all was hoping they would waive the early termination of the 4g but nope :( that’s like $250 down the drain but atleast ill have internet while its being installed that’s 1 advantage of 4g) their NBN plans is one of the most costly around though but that’s telstra

UPDATES: rang NBNCo directly yesterday apparently there’s no issue with the tower and there’s an issue with their DB so that’s fixed(they were very helpful quite surprising) and found out there’s nothing pending for this address so rang telstra to find they cancelled the order because it wasn’t serviceable atm and i will have to redo the order then got another call today from their “sales specialists” to reorder to be told the order isn’t cancelled and is still going through and is now showing as serviceable. crazy :( atleast it seems im back to where i was before(i hope! if not screw how much it costs me(damn 24M contracts) to cancel everything ill be changing isps)

so now back to waiting for nbnco to ring to book in to do their side(telstra says nbn installation part can take up to 4-6 weeks). so much hassle hopefully its smooth sailing from here on out already been 2 weeks

rang nbn today again still nothing then canceled with telstra(2 times sofar after i cancelled got another call to cancel. wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a 3rd coming). ordered with skymesh around 9:30 already been processed and at 1:30 when i was checking for eggs they rang my mobile and booked in an appointment for july 7th so what took telstra 23 days and they still didnt finish skymesh did in only 4 hours so far so good and didn’t even need to check up with nbnco once(was going to do it on monday but don’t need to now yay)

things could still go wrong but now theres no telstra im expecting no more issues