rogercruse:

 

We had an original estimate of August 2019 for fibre in our street, but this was recently changed to: 

 

 

(March 2019 if the image isn't readable).

 

I'm currently sitting by the front door waiting for the man from Chorus to arrive with his tape measure and clip-board!

 

Lucky! Mine has gone from December 2019 to November 2019..😃

Our is March 2019, the crews were here late last year, and finished weeks ago.. still nothing in the mail to say it's available, and chorus checkers still says March 2019 :(. Super eager to get it installed, as VDSL  in our area is slow and patchy.

I wrote a Lambda function to check the Chorus API and post to slack when/if my availability date changes

We were originally scheduled for June 2019, around 5 years ago.

Chorus crews were in our street November/December last year and again in January. Didn’t do anything on my side of the street. 2 weeks ago, I got an email from Orcon advising installation has been ordered, and scoping dates provisionally booked.

Day before first meeting, Chorus tech called to bring forward scoping appointment. Later he called to say he cannot proceed because light pole outside my property is not straight, needs a cherry picker and scoping appointment will be re-scheduled.

This evening ‘round 6, Chorus tech texts me to confirm I am still available for 2nd appointment/installation tomorrow as originally scheduled. Apparently, crew with cherry picker has already been and gone. I called the texter to ask about the first appointment/scoping. He says no worries, he can do all of that tomorrow including installation.

Currently, I have no overhead cables connected to the building (for electricity or telephone). Looks like it may change for fibre since cable from pole-to-building is probably 10m or less! Would prefer to have existing buried cable setup. Probably 8m of buried cable to existing telephone ETP (or similar), then into brick external wall, up to ceiling, over garage and down internal wall to ADSL end point.

pgs2050:

 

We were originally scheduled for June 2019, around 5 years ago.

 

Say what?

So I live down a long driveway non shared, though I share a fence with my neighbour. It's an older wooden fence that has started to buckle and may need replacing in time. 

It's a solid concrete driveway and the arrow points to where the current VDSL Connection is terminated at my garage. 

I'd definitely prefer not to have the Fibre Tacked to the fence at all, but I am unsure if there is another practical way?

quickymart:

 

pgs2050:

 

We were originally scheduled for June 2019, around 5 years ago.

 

 

Say what?

 

In August 2013, maybe even earlier, fibre rollout for my area was scheduled for June 2019, which I think was then original end date for the NZ fibre rollout.  It has changed now and then, but reverted to that original schedule at the beginning of 2019. However, work in my area began in July 2018, and in November 2018 they actually started in my street.

networkn:

 

So I live down a long driveway non shared, though I share a fence with my neighbour. It's an older wooden fence that has started to buckle and may need replacing in time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a solid concrete driveway and the arrow points to where the current VDSL Connection is terminated at my garage. 

 

I'd definitely prefer not to have the Fibre Tacked to the fence at all, but I am unsure if there is another practical way?

 

 

 

unless they can reuse the conduit for the copper connection for the fibre one you might be stuck with it tacked to a fance, unless you are willing to run you own conduit where you want it placed and they can then use that.

Per the Chorus website - underground pipe will be used if "it's usable - we'll dig at each end of the pipe and full our fibre cable through". I guess it depends if the tech can use it or not.

Well, I would imagine that if the installer turns up at my house, week out from the RWC and says "we can put it on the fence now and you'll be operational today" or as an alternative "We can run it underground, see you in 2 months" a fair number of people are going to take the easy option.

Fibre installation has been completed in about 3 hours today. This included a small delay as the pole work (add a box / connection from the pole across the street to the pole outside my house) was completed. The installer showed me some screen on his phone which indicated that he was advised that the work had already been done, but he was able to make progress in other areas. During this time, another crew showed up to replace the existing pole which was not straight.

They were able to use the existing telephone ducting for the external box, but could not use existing power, telephone or tv aerial conduits/path from ceiling to wall socket for the internal wiring. So, there is a cable from the ceiling along the corner of the wall down to the floor where the ONT is installed. My wife is not happy to hear of this so I may have to arrange for an electrician to move the cable into the walls.

Chorus website says they don’t do inside wall internal wiring – internal installation is surface mount only. But now someone at Chorus has said to my wife that they do like-for-like installation external and internal and that the installers should definitely have done the internal same as existing telephone cables. They did go into the ceiling (which is easily accessible) to check if they could use the existing conduits, but reported that the cable paths were too narrow for their purpose.

Apart from this, everything else seems to have gone off very nicely. First email from Orcon was on 19 February – 13 days.

Download rate has moved from 11Mbps to 105Mbps and upload speed from 0.8 to 20, ping from 9(ms ?) to 4.

Chorus wont do wiring inside walls, so your wife has got wrong information from someone, they will only do it if there is a accessible duct that meets their requirements.