#52682
Boronia
Flatchatter

    I had similar problems getting NBN installed in my GF apartment in a 25 year old 3 storey block. NBN guy came out and discovered there was no cabling into my apartment, other than old copper wires from a terminal block in the basement. He didn’t know where the NBN hub was located, and couldn’t find any trace of where it might have been. He just shrugged his shoulders and left. The next guy came a few weeks later and repeated the scenario. He did tell me they would have to run a cable from the hub(which he couldn’t find) and I would need the owners permission, I am the owner, so next they tell me i need OC permission because they will have to drill through CP walls and floors to get to me. So I asked for a plan so I could get OC approval. Waited a couple of weeks, and when I followed it up, they just another installation tech out. It was now 4 months since I lodged the application with my ISP.

    Then I saw some advertising for 4G wireless broadband (no 5G in my area yet). It was not as fast as a base NBN plan, but after seeing so many reports of how unreliable it was, figured I didn’t have much to lose. So I signed up with Optus, took a modem home from the shop, set it up in 10 minutes and it has been working quite adequately ever since. Cost is comparable with NBN plans too.