A few months.

Nope. Still quite a bit more of the build to go, and infrastructure to test yet.

how long is a piece of string?

there is no set time, could be a month, could be 6, just have to wait and see

Jaxson: Can I ask what you get when you move from coppper to fibre please?

I know you'll get an ONT in your garage, but what do the companies provide in terms of a router with Ethernet ports/wifi etc?

Wifi won't work very well in most people's garages, and providing cabled Ethernet ports out there will be a pain also.

How do people get their broadband into their house living areas when switching to fibre?

What router you get or do not get depends entirely on your ISP. Some will give out "free" routers, some don't.

The reason that ONTs are installed in the garage is that in new houses, they have integrated ethernet wiring with cables leading to all the rooms, and the wiring hub is in the garage. Therefore, you install the ONT in the garage.

If you don't have integrated wiring in your house then you don't install the ONT in the garage. Chorus recommends behind the TV. Or you can have it installed where your current router is.

Do they install a power plug? Or do they run the fibre through your house walls to put the ONT near a existing power plug.

As my 1930s house has no power plugs on any house perimeter walls.

cruxis:

 

Do they install a power plug? Or do they run the fibre through your house walls to put the ONT near a existing power plug.

 

They won't cover any electrical work like installing extra power outlets. They usually have a scoping visit to discuss with you where you want the ONT installed and are flexible providing what you want is not horribly complicated or expensive.

I wanted mine installed in a bedroom that I use as my office on an internal wall in an enclosure I installed myself. Enable were happy to run the fibre under the house to come up where I wanted it.

For my sisters house, Chorus installed the ONT and the modem in her bedroom beside the nearest phone line so she could hook up her analogue phones easily although she found the modem lights a bit bright until I covered them.

For my other sister, Enable installed it behind the TV in the lounge which is at the opposite end the house from the street where the fibre is coming from.

attewell: How long after fibre trenching in my street can i expect to wait before i can order fibre?

For me, 6 months from trenching to when fibre was available. Then 3 months from order to install. 

they also dont run anything in the walls, they will install the cabling on the outside and use capping.

Just had mine installed. Was about 4 weeks from the end of trenching. They had to do testing etc.