NBN FTTN to FTTP Build Day

A quick little blog about how it all went down today. Mornington Peninsular. Vic.

NBN ran the fibre and pits in Dec 2023 / Jan 2024, I got very excited.
I subscribed as soon as it became live in mid July with Superloop, online application, had an NBN appointment within 20 minutes. 😳

Appointment to change over from FTTN to fibre.
From 38 mbps down / 8 mbps up copper to:

Appointment time between 8am and 12am, arrived at ~ 9:40, from where I know not.

First job, fibre to the box with splitters, fortunately only the next box up from me had them, about 150 mtrs. I fortunately had a pit right in front of my house. (right side of the street!) where my copper Telstra conduit entered.

Pit with 9 splitters pre configured. Plug and play.

Pulled in easily with a snake, 20 minutes.
Interestingly all their fibre cables are pre-terminated at different lengths, grab the length thats needed.
Plug and play. (That also goes for the internal fibre, it was a bit long, so I have about 15 mtrs of excess fibre in my wall cavity behind the enclosure.)

Second job, fibre from my pit to the corner of the house - NBN outside terminator box. This 30 mtr run was not so easy, a blockage.

Used a snake through the conduit to gauge distance and an electronic wire detector hooked to the old Telstra copper. Broken conduit, thanks landscaping plumbers.
Fixed, pulled through and terminated.

Third job, outside box to NTD box in the house.
Now, NBN are going to put that box somewhere relatively easy and quick for them, this of course may not be convenient for you. All you have is an RJ45 that has to go into a router. Have a think from their angle, and if that's not where you want it to go, (I suspect in our bedroom immediately behind the outdoor box, who wants winking blinking lights in the bedroom....well some maybe.), organise a cable guy to run some NBN white 20mm conduit to where you do want it before hand with a strong pull wire inside. I ran mine under the house to an inside cupboard under the stairs where I'd mounted some networking gear for my upcoming gigabit connection.

Probably overkill, but I mounted a NBN enclosure into the wall to house the modem.

Yeah, I know, this is an outdoor enclosure, but it works ok. Knowing what I know now, I would have gotten something smaller obviously, but not unhappy about the finished look however.