While many of you kiwis are or have moved well on from an old ADSL connection to at least VDSL and in many cases FTTP, this kiwi happens to live in Australia where the idea of a next generation broadband network is a little different.

At home, I am currently stuck on a lovely ADSL2+ connection. It's all I can get in the apartment building I live in, and as Australia didn't (until recently) do a FTTN rollout, my 2.5km or so distance from the exchanges gives me somewhere around a 9-10Mbps download.

Thankfully, the Australian government have discovered this cutting edge technology called HFC - and have started to roll it out into my building! Hurray! Some day soon, I may be able to get at least 25Mbits down the pipe! Of course, our building adds another 50 or so connections to the local HFC node - so we'll see. Yay for the future!

Some lovely pictures of the new install into our MDF and IDFs from yesterday (not connected up yet - NBN say this will happen by no later than 2020!).

https://imgur.com/a/XIXPn

Note the green sticker on the new coax reads "Telecom Australia". Telecom Australia changed their name to Telstra in 1995.