Captain Apollo
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Plenty of places in the cities with shit copper or a few km from the local exchange that are still stuck on terrible adsl connections still waiting for the NBN to reach them
I live in the Parramatta region and I was on adsl +2. The unit I live in is within 1.5km from the exchange, so based on location I should have been getting upwards of 17 Megabits/per second download speeds.
Thing is it would vary day by day from 17 Mbps to 7 Mbps, provided I could get a stable connection. ADSL is susceptible to drop outs, but back in April it was getting bad, like dropping in and out 12 times an hour. This was temporarily remedied by replacing my ADSL filters, as the ones I had were over 10 years old, as advised by my then ISP after they got Telstra to check the cable in the street (which was reported to be fine).
When the problems returned, my ISP sent out a technician to look at my connection. When he looked at my set up he reckoned wiring in the wall was an issue. In fact the wall socket the phone and modem were plugged into were replaced as the socket was corroded. Whilst replacing it saw a temporary increase in speed and stability, the tech's report to my ISP was that the main issue was the wiring in the walls was defective and would need to be replaced.
As I rent, and the NBN is due in the first half of 2019, neither I nor my land lord knew how to proceed. Thankfully I had a Foxtel cable in the unit and I'm now with Telstra cable enjoying a 100 Mbps download speed. All they did to install it was put a splitter on the Foxtel connection and run a loose cable around the edge of the living room to my PC.
Whilst it helps me, it also gives the owner time to sort things out for when the NBN rolls out especially with the Owners Corporation as I wouldn't be surprised if the others have crappy copper wiring also considering the age of the building we live in.
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