I have been loving UFB in  Johnsonville for the last 18 months - seriously good service. Now however we are moving  to Titahi Bay and although according to Telecom UFB is not yet available. According to the Chorus site  - fibre is due in January. The cables in the street in the area have been laid over the last few months. 

I can't get an ETA from Telecom - and they won't even lodge a request until the current owner asks her (gone for 8 months) tenants which ISP they were using (seriously!) - because there's a connection at the property already (according to them - the place has been empty most of the year it seems unlikely). 

This is made more complex because we are moving a few days before Xmas - don't really want to be weeks without broadband! 

Anyone in Telecom/Spark - here - can you tell me  why on earth it matters that some other provider may have been used in the past? 

Meanwhile - is it worth going with VDSL ? Is it a decent upgrade from ADSL?  What is it exactly? Just fine-tuning ADSL to the best possible speed?  

Also with the arrival of lightbox  and possibly netflex - I'm wondering about having the ONT in  the living room. In my current house it's in my office (I work from home) and we just use the laptop's fast wireless and plug it into the TV.

In the new place the office is nearer the front of the house and where the phone line enters, but both rooms are on the same (1st floor) level.

What is required to add additional hardwired connection to the ONT - is it just a matter of stringing ethernet  cabling under the house and through the wall at each end? Would Chorus do this for me - at extra cost I know - or should I get an electrician to do it. We are likely getting an electrician in soon after we move anyways as the house dates from the "one power plug per  a bedroom will be fine" era of home wiring!  Sorry dumb questions - but we've always basically been wireless at home - and I've  not dealt with cabling since I got out of corporate IT 

In fact now I think of it - I assume because there are 4 Ethernet connections to the modem - we could have up to 4 Ethernet cables from other places in the house e.g. my partners office as well?