this topic didnt immediatly grab me to reply
but things change

im upset with the digetal regeme
that sees us loose our vhf and uhf free to air tv[next year]

in the rush to get at the free digetal specrum
[that the nbn now looks like superceeding]
i finally bit the bullit..[and went digetal]

what a costly blunder i have made
[i bought a set top box]..and got no signal
so bought a digetal tv..and got no signal

so i replaced my antena..and cabling
and got channel 7's digetal..AND THATS IT

no 9 ten
two sbs nor abc

im at wits end
i got a perfectly functional landline into my house
but dont ned a telephone..and arnt paying over a dollar per day
just to get 'online'..[im sick of needing built in obsolesance updates]

to stuff i got that works just fine
after spending hundreds of dollars on this digetal lurk
im back to watching the basic free to air..minus briz 31..who are only digetal now.

so if this digetal scam
and c02 tax and nbn..isnt a scam

prove it

cause so far i know
im being shafted

im over the lot of it
[my dodo net acces expires december
and free to air vhf/uhf..expires god knows when

so you wonder why i hate govt serving its mates
well dont worry..when im not amused at my home anymore
im back on the road..hounding you beurorock-rats in person

fix digetal[run its signal through the copper
connect my landline to the web
and pay for the nbn..
by volume of upload and download

the quater gig i use..[per month] costs me 4 bucks
thats all im prepared to pay

al that wasted line maintance/acces fees
[that should have built fibre was gifted to shareholders
make them pay]..anyhow now i go away..but one day i stop hiding

If a backhoe cuts the cable, blood will ooze from the person responsible, The most expensive part of the cable are the joins. Dial before you dig.

Transmission cables are typically arranged in "rings" with their paths geographically separate.

That means if a cable is cut (as they often are) then signals travel in the other direction without interruption.

Some of the more spectacular cuts are when several fibres are cut or when the backbone paths have not been effectively established.

I imagine the NBN topography - being new rather than adapted - will take this into account.

Otherwise, contractors and others really need to be insured.

Oh, and Steve Jobs died of cancer - he didn't cure it.

Some years ago the two fibres going north both crossed the river on the
same bridge at Telegraph point.

Ah well no one has knocked the bridge down.

Ah well no one has knocked the bridge down.
Bazz,
yeah, but what will you do when someone does ? Is there a plan B ?