One NZ to retire HFC (cable) network

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#3420440 1-Oct-2025 23:19

Rickles: So, do any of the LAN ports work in router-fashion? Presumably the ISP tells us which LAN to use as their connection?

Not quite - so you can have 4x different ISP's running on it. By default when you sign up to an ISP it'll provision to Port 1 and ISP's like Quic for example let you configure how you want this set up (if you want VLAN tagging on or off). If you wanted a straight forward migration then most ISP's (One NZ, Spark, Mercury, 2degrees, Vetta/Quic) who support VLAN 10 DHCP should be plug and play without requiring any router configuration (switch Ethernet over to Port 1 of the ONT).

So you're pretty spoiled for choice on the UFB network! The UFB ONT simply does what your Cable Modem currently does which is staying transparent between your ISP and your router.

I wouldn't stress just yet - lets wait for the official plan from One NZ as I'd say they wouldn't suddenly shut this network down without a migration plan.

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#3420445 2-Oct-2025 02:44

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Wow thats sad, there goes my $75pm cheap unlimited internet. So what happens to the DECO where its named as a cable only device. They will have to replace it.

@netspanner $65 unlimited Fibre plans in the market

Yeah, but many LFC households may not have a fibre connection, so I suspect One/VF will offer an instant 5G solution, rather than give an upgrade path that makes their customers less "sticky"

Either that that or they pull the fibre through when they pull the coax out so then the LFC use the conduit that the coax used before which should speed up the transition.

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#3420451 2-Oct-2025 07:08

I have a feeling Chorus can't use another company's conduit to install fibre cables, unless it's owned by the council or something.

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#3420469 2-Oct-2025 08:36

If the coax in it has gone dead forever and it's on my property I'd regard it as a conduit that I now own.

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#3420493 2-Oct-2025 09:23

DjShadow:

I’m wondering what will become to the Cable TV headend in Seaview (Parkside Road), drive past it every day and can still see cars in the car park. There are still 6 big Satellite dishes there plus the VHF/UHF antennas pointing at Mt Kaukau, the dishes look in bad need of needing to be sprayed with 30 Seconds or cleaned with a water blaster.

Otherwise known as the Tardis, that does more that just HFC cable.

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#3420494 2-Oct-2025 09:29

noroad:

Otherwise known as the Tardis, that does more that just HFC cable.

I have been in there, quite a cool place. I always wondered why they built it in high risk tsunami inundation zone and high climate flood zone.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3420501 2-Oct-2025 09:50

From memory that was the most central location at the time, and the network sort of spread out from there.

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#3420505 2-Oct-2025 10:01

quickymart:

From memory that was the most central location at the time, and the network sort of spread out from there.

It was ordinally based out of Paraparaumu , when they were kiwi cable, The stump of the BIG satellite receiver is still visible in a paddock

I think most of those dishes in Seaview are now pretty much EOL and destined for the metal recyclers round the corner

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#3420507 2-Oct-2025 10:18

You have a better memory than me 🙂 that's what I was told when I worked there - but I do remember them starting out in Kapiti also being mentioned, so that would make sense.

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#3420558 2-Oct-2025 10:44

An interesting topic this one…

I sit in an office where this topic has cropped up from time to time – I can even recall a couple of occasions in recent times where an apparent unofficial “stop-sell” has been put in place, teams have been put thru re-structures, plan offerings disappear from the website only for business to miraculously return to normal a few short weeks later

Without any official press release, on the surface it looks like could be gearing up towards another stop sell. I guess just another “Hurry up and wait” in the meantime

Bigger picture thinking, my guess would be some sort of “managed retreat” – Keeping a roadside cabinet live and several span of cable going for 1 or 2 customers cant be sustainable long term. However, a cluster of customers in a specific area may have a stay of execution. Especially in a network (which I assume), in reasonable condition and is already paid for.

My understanding Chorus are doing something similar now days with their copper network...i.e a “stop-sell” and if a fault pops up and if certain criteria met (e.g cable only 1 or 2 workers or cable will take 1 or more dig n’ fixes etc) then they work with affected customers to find another suitable solution.

Once again, without seeing a press release, I guess its all down to who has the clearest (or bigger) crystal ball :-D

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#3420559 2-Oct-2025 10:54

@michaelmurfy ... thanks for that.

I should have remembered all this from when my daughter moved to new home, and I watched the ONT light up and followed the TXT instruction as to which LAN port to use. Went from ONT straight to router and all was good after that.

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#3420619 2-Oct-2025 11:39

As a matter of further interest, does the ONT cable subsequently go into any LAN port on a router, or into the router's WAN port?

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#3420621 2-Oct-2025 11:41

Rickles:

As a matter of further interest, does the ONT cable subsequently go into any LAN port on a router, or into the router's WAN port?

WAN port if a dedicated one exists, or usually Port 1 on router without a dedicated WAN port.

But it also depends on other things. For example my router has a dedicated WAN port, but it can use Port 1 as a failover. I could have two ONT connections or one ONT (WAN) for main connection and perhaps a mobile router (Port 1) in case the main connection dies.

So, yeah. WAN if there is one, otherwise check your router manual.

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#3420628 2-Oct-2025 12:00

@freitasm ... thanks ... makes sense now.

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#3420881 3-Oct-2025 09:59

Still no confirmation?

I just tried my old address in Wellington again and cable is still absent as an option.

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