Noel's Muses

odd metre cable run from the Node, usually it was because Energex failed us, and well, UPS batteries don't last forever, and I respect my neighbours enough to not start my generator at 10PM. The NBN component of my service has long performed perfectly, it has an average utilisation of around 30%, and only three occasions in the past 28 days has utilisation peaked at 90%, but for no more than a total sum of four minutes.

Since "your team" is clearly incompetent by seeing a problem that does not exist, I'll give you some free business advice, you are best saving the money you would ordinarily spend on your postal spam, to hire a team who knows what the fuck they are doing. I can assure you, I have far more monitoring of my connection then you would have.

I also feel you need some education, it is true that fibre will give me enormous bandwidth over copper - if I actually had a need for it, but the copper running this line is over 30 years in the ground, and very stable, much to the hands-over-eyes and fingers-in-the-ears of the fanbois, and it might interest you to know from a technical standpoint, copper and fibre both have a minimum lifespan of thirty years, I'm betting the lasers will degrade and burn out needing replacement long before the copper lines fail, that's another thing the fanbois ignore, they think of the glass in the ground, not the electronics that run it, especially in a PON environment where the high powered transceivers do TX and RX on one connector module single fibre. Copper is perfectly fine for Telecommunications so I don't see it being ripped up any time soon, both forms have risks, both have technical installation requirements to prevent damage to itself, and both have lifetime limiters.

Having a Telecomms technical background as well as systems and network engineering, it might also surprise a few who claim fibre will protect them from transient over voltages, that much of the fibre laid in the ground has tracer wires - guess what the tracer wires are made of There are also fibres that have separate tracers laid above, others that use steel wire armouring, or corrugated steel tape (was mainly used in rodent infected areas, replaced by GRP) - all conductors of massive energy releases, but then there is GRP, the glass reinforced polymer armoured fibres that wont provide a path for that energy, but until recent years GRP was substantially more expensive than SWA or CST, at least in Australia, SWA is still used in high risk areas as it is still stronger for crush resistances than GRP.

Of course, I understand this is in reality likely some bean counting marketing wankers bullshit in a piss-poor attempt at trying to scam me to move to FTTP where I will only be capable of needlessly purchasing (at a much higher wholesale price point) a higher tier that is of no use or interest to me, therefore subsequently succumbing to your cabal pricing because all you care about is your bank balance - not anyone's internet experience, therefore, I feel I must decline your offer, furthermore I am perplexed at the fact you are contacting me directly, as a wholesaler of last-mile to ISPs, it is forbidden for you to contact access holders directly.