I’m in the HFC non-installation thread… still.
Cheers for the advice, over the Christmas break I’ll grab a spade and have a look at what’s hiding under the crap in the pit. The pit is literally on my nature strip, so it’s certainly the obvious place for the connection to be hiding…
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So, … why has it come down to you to do their work for them??
Surely it’s their responsibility to A) know if it’s there or not via plans, schematics & records, … and B) find the fkn thing if it is. 
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The left arm doesn’t know what the right arm’s doing when it comes to the NBN.
I work in an industrial estate which was due for upgrade to NBN earlier this year. On the day things commenced, the workers discovered the pits were full of asbestos, work was abandoned and it was put in the too-hard basket. Everything’s now on hold until further advised - has been that way for 6 months now presumably as all involved parties argue, finger-point, duck, weave, cower, cover their arses etc.
The NBN is one of the all-time greatest frauds in history, and there should be far more written about it. Poorly conceived, poorly executed and redundant before the first sod of earth was even turned. An absolute embarrassment for a supposed first-world country…
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Apparently nobody keeps records of where someone gets connected to the phone/adsl line. Not Telstra, not nobody. So we’re all in the dark.
They’re more than happy to just hack a trench up the length of the property and install a new conduit that way. In fact, they’d probably be rapt cos that’s literally be days and days of work for multiple people and the subbies’d have little dollar signs blinking on and off in their eyes at the prospect.
I, on the other hand, am opposed to them hacking a huge messy gouge through the remnant bushland I’ve spent years taking care of, not to mention the likelihood of them sticking a spade through a stormwater drain or gas main which’d dramatically inconvenience me but not be that much skin off their nose. So if I want them to use the existing conduit, I have to find the ■■■■■■ thing or they’ll just shrug and start trenching.
I had another question in my head about this earlier, …
IF you have a normal phone line running in already for ADSL etc, then it would be in a conduit, (almost certainly), and if I were doing the job, I’d be simply tying the new cable to the existing Testra 5 core phone line, and pulling it through, rather than going to the costly unnecessary install of a new one, … and it sounds like they haven’t cut a trench yet.
Or is THAT what you are looking for, … you’re existing phone line pit connection??
Yes that’s right. And you can’t disconnect the old analog phone line until nbn is up at your site.
If so, … then that has SFA to do with NBN, … that’s all down to Telstra.
I’d be calling them and saying the phones not working, and get them out to find the pair.
Yep, looking for the existing connection so they can use the adsl cable as a pull through line.
Can’t do that as you would then have no internet until nbn is provisioned at your site. It could take them six months to finish off the nbn connection based on my experience.
Well, the installer guy seemed to think it was possible. But tbh I don’t care, I’ll buy a dongle to tide me over if necessary.
A really, really high end metal detector might do the job.
You/THEY certainly know or could easily find where it leaves the house, and track it to the nature strip maybe??
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Have you checked your connection status? Put your address in this to check :
https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/nbn-poi/
What service class do you get? Also you can use this to check if any neighbours are connected and live on nbn.
Problem is the block. It’s 100m+ between the house and the pit, and the block is heavily treed and rocky and on a 34% slope. And the conduit passes under a paved driveway at least once. Tracking it is not a trivial exercise.
There are companies who’ll come out with metal detectors & ground-penetrating radar etc and find your cables for you, but I expect they’ll cost the earth.
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I’m basically connection-ready if i understand this right. Just need the provider to install the box etc.
Serviceable by HFC, the location has a street TAP, lead-in & PCD in place, but no internal tie-cables with wall plates/sockets
Premises readiness Ready to connect to the nbn!
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Ok so what is the service class? Sc23?
Had a similar argument when I moved into my property - NBN ready but not connected.
Had multiple people from NBN come out to install and multiple times saying we can’t do it etc no connection on the street.
Went on for weeks, hair pulling stuff. Worse thing was probably the fact we just moved into a NBN ready home so they couldn’t even connect me to ADSL as this was already disconnected and they don’t go backwards - my ISP was good about it though and discounted monthly charges and through in the router free etc.
Like you mentioned earlier - subbies with dollar signs in there eyes and I’d keep trying until you find an NBN service tech willing to do a bit of work - climb a ladder, dig a hole, pull a cable etc… I feel the techies are the problem in this scenario.
Good Luck HM
Good Luck HM
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Ok are any of your neighbours connected? Enter their address. This will tell you of nbn is really live in your area.
Again, … I reckon this comes down to Telstra to find it.
If you can find the wire and disconnect /break it in a way that’s out of sight, and also fix it again yourself if needed, then report the fault, the Telstra fella/lady will have to come out and run a test to the pit from your house & exchange to track the fault, … it would then force them to find it.
They are still responsible for that phone line and the connection into your home, not NBN, and not whichever phone or net provider you are with.