wellygary: If you are desperate for a connection, It looks like your addy is inside Skinny's 4g broadband area

So you can have 60GB at 4G speed for $55 a month, -

https://www.skinny.co.nz/broadband/

Jase2985: can you have 2 orders in at the same time? ie one for fibre and one for ADSL?

DarthKermit:

Rktcabuay: My question is regarding consent from neighbors on shared driveway. I was advised by Spark to go house to house and pass on the consent form. I don't mind doing that but before I do so, can any one confirm it is really necessary?

Rudi from Palmy

Hi Rudi,
Yes, you'll have to get consent from all the people you share the driveway with. Looking on http://geoguide.palmerstonnorth.com/ there are houses 2, 4, 6, 8 in your court.

Unfortunately until the law is reformed (don't hold your breath), you'll have to go thru this red tape bullcrap.

-DarthKermit (also in Palmy Nth)

Athlonite: Why when it really doesn't need to go up the driveway, for instance it could go from roadside through the fence directly to his house without ever going anywhere near the driveway if that's the case then he needn't bother with the neighbours at all 

InstallerUFB: Ok here is my quick assesment of your UFB situation ( I work in Palmy area) - You are in a fixed fibre area - not blown fibre - no trenching of micro ducting etc

Your copper connection is via what is called a fully ducted or Pit & Pipe system  - the copper terminal is below ground in that it OS no 28 , from there there is a 50mm duct underthe footpath along infront of your house a beyond - off that 50mm duct will be a 20mm tee and a 20mm pipe across under your front lawn and into the demarc (ETP) on the side of your house

Your UFB connection would therefore follow a similar path from the bigger PIT (Cream fibre lid with round Channel Logo), also OS 28 through the smailer copper pit and via the duct and cionduit to the side of your house (Fibre ETP added there )

You will most likely find that this is how UFB will be delivered to you so therefore you wont need to get consent for any extenton of the UFB communial network up the ROW. More than likely it will already be ducted anyway- The planes that I have for the area (stored on my Laptop) were updated when the UFB network was installed but not when Northbrook Ct was done

BTW if the forms you copied out are the consent to install doc - NDF-240 Ultra-Fast Broadband Installation Consent Form v3.0 , as printed on the bottom of the page, wouldnt be any good anyway as those are the (paper version of the) consent to install in, on & outside a single dwelling - which is now done electonicaly, with an install tech,when a 'scope' is done of the exact requirements of your install.

'tely'

Rktcabuay: Happy New Year all! 

We still don't have internet in this house we moved last Dec. It didn't work out with 2degrees so I switched back to Spark VDSL. Then I was informed I can't have it (address checker said I can). Thus, I was moved to ADSL1. Still not connected as I am on port waiter. Waiting sucks. I've been backreading and it seems like there's not much I can do but WAIT.

With a little bit of hope, UFB is available in my area. There's a hold put on our address as there wasn't any consent from building representative. I rang the property manager (yes, we're renting) and he said does not have any problem signing one off. Great! 

My question is regarding consent from neighbors on shared driveway. I was advised by Spark to go house to house and pass on the consent form. I don't mind doing that but before I do so, can any one confirm it is really necessary? Photos below:

 

I hope to hear from you. It's been frustrating not having internet at home.

Thanks!

Rudi from Palmy

Rktcabuay:

InstallerUFB: Ok here is my quick assesment of your UFB situation ( I work in Palmy area) - You are in a fixed fibre area - not blown fibre - no trenching of micro ducting etc

Your copper connection is via what is called a fully ducted or Pit & Pipe system  - the copper terminal is below ground in that Pit outside no 28 , from there there is a 50mm duct under the footpath along infront of your house and beyond - off that 50mm duct will be a 20mm tee and a 20mm pipe/conduit across under your front lawn and into the demarc (ETP) on the side of your house

Your UFB connection would therefore follow a similar path from the bigger PIT (Cream fibrecement like lid with round Channel Logo in black plastic on it ), also outside 28, - through the smailer copper pit and via the duct and conduit to the side of your house (Fibre ETP added there instead of or above the copper ETP (External Test Point))

You will most likely find that this is how UFB will be delivered to you.  So therefore - you wont need to get consent, for any extenton of the UFB communial network, up the ROW.  More than likely the ROW will already be ducted anyway- The planes that I have for the area (stored on my Laptop) were updated when the UFB network was installed but not when Northbrook Ct was done

BTW if the forms you copied out are the consent to install doc - NDF-240 Ultra-Fast Broadband Installation Consent Form v3.0 (as printed on the bottom of the form) they wouldnt be any good anyway, as a ROW Consent, as those are the (paper version of the) consent to install in, on & outside a single dwelling - which is now done electonicaly, with an install tech,when a 'scope' is done of the exact requirements of your install.

'tely'

Thank you for the very detailed reply. I had to read it more than 5x with a lot of Google in between. Lol

But I think what really matters is the fact I do not need consent from my neighbors up Northbrook Ct because fibre will be going through our house the same way copper does. So thanks for validating and confirming that.

I now have the form below back from our property manager (is this the right one?):

New Form

Not this which you said is invalid (googled NDF-240 UFB Installation Consent form and found this):

Old form

I edited my original reply in this rereply as well (and again to fix up the text codeing)