Broadband installed on Friday afternoon.
I came in on Saturday and tested: no dial tone/adsl.
tech comes back out monday afternoon and now testing tuesday morning I finally have services.
My broadband performance is unusable.  

Sync rates from modem:
6.531Mbps
933kbps 

real world national speed:
5.78Mbps
770kbps

real world international speed:
London
2.41Mbps 
0.51kbps 

real world international speed:
Boston/Comcast
1.02Mbps
0.52kbps

wow - what a shocker! totally unusable.
I used to sync at 16-18Mbps with Orcon a year ago at the same location and consistently get real world international download speeds between 12 and 16Mbps down.
The soft phone was a bit flakey, but hardly used it.

Getting a call back tomorrow from the throughput team, so I hope they can work some magic otherwise I will be forced to quit and try Orcon.
I am 1.7km from the Airedale St exchange so I reckon I should be getting around 12Mbps sync minimum.

This is disappointing, I was psyched for the new double data plans!

What annoys me too is that there's a VDSL2 cabinet about 75m away but Chorus said it's not feasible to connect me. That sucks, I would dig the trench or pay for it to be dug!

UFB is too far away, ugh!!