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| Thread ID: 127120 | 2012-10-05 00:05:00 | Fibre - Making the switch | The Error Guy (14052) | Press F1 |
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| 1305301 | 2012-10-06 11:41:00 | Actually now you mention it, yeah I thought Orcon were doing free installs until the end of the year? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1305302 | 2012-10-06 19:57:00 | I thought they (orcon) were offering free broadband, not fibre. I know some areas/providers do free installs but I didn't think everyone got them. I'll give them a ring to find out. They probably have a preferred contractor if it's not free. Cheers. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305303 | 2012-10-06 20:52:00 | Orcon has free fibre till end of the year ... www.orcon.net.nz AFAIK the installation should be free (physically) there may be a administrative connection charge thou but that may be usually waived when you sign a contract. If you want other phones in the house to work still you need to contract a telecom/electrician to loop them back into the router with the use of ATA(s). But the router may provide 1 or 2 telephone jacks on the machine itself, ie if you don't need those other phones or if you are happy with just multiple cordless phones. I have been told the fee might be up to $300 depending on how many phones you have etc. But I would assume if they install that fibre box thing near the power meter (?) and then loop that to your lounge where the router is that should be free right. If not then everyone getting fibre even the basic install would have to fork up installation fees. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1305304 | 2012-10-07 03:53:00 | From the orcon page (after signing up to register for fibre) You will be liable to pay for any installation costs in relation to your Orcon fibre connection. These costs will vary depending on your premises and your requirements. The majority of installs will be free, but a range of factors including distance from the roadside will impact the cost. So I guess we will get a quote and see how much its gonna cost. Probably a little more than the average home. Long drive and semi rural |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305305 | 2012-10-07 06:03:00 | I think they only do it in certain areas, outside of that they wont install it. I live 2k from wellingtons city center and I cant get it. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305306 | 2012-10-07 09:34:00 | From the orcon page (after signing up to register for fibre) So I guess we will get a quote and see how much its gonna cost. Probably a little more than the average home. Long drive and semi rural Have you checked that you have UFB fibre running by your house? You mention semi-rural which sounds a bit unlikely. I have been on ORCON fibre for 5 weeks so know what's involvd. If fibre runs past your place, and your house is close to the road, the connection is free (at least till end of year). You can't hire someone to connect you. You check which ISP is offering the service in your area and the connections are done by the LFC in your area. In my area, Chorus do the bizzo physical stuff. After the connection, you will have an ONT (optical network termination) device and a modem/router. The latter is connected to the ONT by ethernet cable. The modem/router has several ethernet ports plus a phone socket. You can connect the house phone wiring into that ph socket and use all the phones as before. That is what I did. If you are up a long drive, things get trickier as the protocol for this is not well formed. But, in any event, you first need to go through your selected ISP. In my case, I paid nothing for the connection and connected my phones myself (not hard, just disconnect from Chorus copper and plug a telephone cable from a house ph socket into the modem/router ph socket). My internal LAN just connected to the ORCON router as before. So, don't guess or ask us as - you need to check with an ISP. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1305307 | 2012-10-07 20:10:00 | I have "signed up" on their site, they should get back to me soon, as for fibre, we have had fibre past our place for a few years but it wasn't "publicly accessible" according to telecom. It ran along SH1. As part of the Fibre roll out they added a new run of fibre down our road to Middleton Rd. Drive isn't that long, they probably won't use it as all our utilities come in along the north boundary. Distance ~40-60m and it all ready ducts for Phone and power. Internal cabling I'll do, that will be no problem being a small house. Will only require 2x ethernets and a telephone jack or two. I'll probably run the telephone jacks with ethernet in the likely future no one wants phones and connect them to the ATA. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305308 | 2012-10-08 01:27:00 | Cool. Let's know how you get on. | linw (53) | ||
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