Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: The NBN Rollout and What it means to the new Home owner 16Mar 15, 2015 12:09 pm Paddington 29 @ Blue Horizon Estate (Lot 105, Wattleridge Crescent, North Kellyville) Our Build Progress Blog: http://light487.wordpress.com/ Re: The NBN Rollout and What it means to the new Home owner 18May 09, 2015 1:16 am Shadowarrior. The NBN battery back up only supplies power to the voice section of the NBN converter not to the Internet section. If you use an ISP like Telstra that use VOIP on the NBN for their phone calls then you won't have a phone during a blackout. If however you use an ISP that does have the phone over the voice connection you would need a hardwired phone to make a call during a blackout as a cordless phone will not work as the base station will not have power. I would carefully check the ISPS available in your area as I bet Telstra are not the cheapest or best value and as they use VOIP for the phone and not the voice connection to me that is just another disadvantage. Building Symphony Grande Custom Masterton House and Land 12/6/14 Paid $3500 20/11/14 contracts signed deposit paid Re: The NBN Rollout and What it means to the new Home owner 19May 09, 2015 1:24 am We are getting the hills home hub as its part of the package and having installed in a cupboard in the middle of the house. However to me this hills home hub is next to useless. It only has 8 network points and 4 TV points through a passive splitter. Then it has 4 or 8 telephone points. It's in a large box and to me is useless. If you only want a few points in the house in sure this keeps it neat but as shown above the NBN equipment is not allowed to be installed in it and as it is metal you can't install a wireless router in it as you won't get a good signal. I've heard stories in new estates where they are installing these in garages that on really hot days the Internet dies as the modem overheats. Some very unhappy people. That means for telstra customers no home phone either which is not good for older people who don't have mobiles and tend to stay with telstra. Building Symphony Grande Custom Masterton House and Land 12/6/14 Paid $3500 20/11/14 contracts signed deposit paid Re: The NBN Rollout and What it means to the new Home owner 20Jul 07, 2015 3:27 pm I am building a new home in Southern River, WA. I am in the process of finalising my plans and came across the question of "Where to fit the NBN box?". I am tossing up two options, good to hear people's thoughts on both from technically, aesthetics etc. Option 1: Install NBN box in the garage (typical for any new house installation). Have data point A installed in garage (connects to NBN equipment) Have data point A installed in family and connect up to a wireless router. Have data point B installed in family and connect up to router Have data point B installed in Theatre for data connection. Option 2: Install NBN box in Master bedroom WIR (on the top shelf) and follow similar set up for data point. Building at Bletchley Park, WA with Blue Print Homes Sorry but you have a crap builder. Probably too late now. For our last build I only spoke to builders who would allow me easy access (at no cost). I used my own sparky… 10 9876 The engineering is the engineering. It's irrelevant how much material you have. Unless it fits the requirements of your design the engineer can't "make"it work. You might… 7 9715 |