The NBN has finally arrived at our place - oh no!

*Update: now our home phone is on the blink again as they've done something out on the street to it. Static on the line, that we got fixed only the other week by Telstra, some kind of short in the wiring out there. Now we have to ring Telstra faults again *sheesh* ! 

We've heard so much about the disaster that is Turnbull's National Broadband Network that we've been dreading the day when the thing arrives at our place. We're both very heavy users of the internet, especially on the days we have no money but can download TV shows and movies for nothing. I get all my news from the internet, go through my emails daily, and everything we watch on TV is downloaded. The thought of even going a day or two without it is too horrible to think about. Neither of us have a smart phone either.

But there's been many stories of dropouts and the thing not working for days on end for some. It also means the home phone drops out too. Completely cut off and forced to watch broadcast TV for days on end is a horrifying possibility.

So they came yesterday (two years late) dug up the front yard and put a box on the wall. Covered the trench back in, and then discovered that the house is divided into our 2 bedroom bit and a one bedroom bit in the back. So they had to dig up the trench again and put another box on the wall for the one bedroom bit.

I commented "Is it going to work?" to the NBN workers, who assured me that yes it was. They also said the one bedroom box wasn't working yet as they needed to come back and put a 4 plug thingy somewhere instead of a two plug thingy that was there now. So the nextdoor house has the NBN box working, and we have it, but number 2 in our place doesn't yet.

So now I'm wondering how they're going to go from that box to where the existing phone and ADSL connection is? And how are they going to go from number two's NBN box to their unit right at the back of the house? The place is 100 years old. There's no access to underneath the house, and the only access to the roof space is through a tiny little manhole located in our bathroom. Oh what fun we're going to have with this.....

And of course eventually we'll have no choice but to switch over because the old phone system will be cut off.