I'm using a Palo Alto PA-200 temporarily until I get my new 2 NIC PC. Here's the Palo: pasteboard.co/EwzuinUS2K1e.jpg And here's what I'm getting: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005008589731.html

You actually got two real NBN installers not the usual numpty contractors where they guarantee a shit job, well done!

Here in the Netherlands we have FTTP in half the houses now. Most of the network is managed by KPN Netwerk, and is based on passive optical network (XGS-PON). All newly built houses have gigabit capability, with >1 Gb coming in the near future. Due to some consumer rights law concerning networking, the ISPs were ordered by the court to publish network specs, so you can actually hook up your own ONT, completely bypassing any ISP equipment at home, which I think is really neat

mate I have the exact same issue with pixelation on Japanese websites! weird

when i built my house 10 years ago - i ran ducting up to my boundary ‘just in case’. Sure enough, 10 years later they run fibre to every house boundary. I signed up and when they arrived for the install - they were expecting to lift 30M of block paving - imagine their joy when I showed the ready made ducting. Like you I have a full IT setup and wanted the internal fibre running to my comms cab - which they obliged with. I ditched the supplied wifi router and use Sophos XG firewall (full version is free for personal use)

I just dug out my old Palo Alto PA-200 and going to bring that back to life. I orded a little 2 NIC box from Ye Olde China, which I'll put my nftables on when I get it, because I like that.

I install fibre optic to the home for a living and i must say you have depicted a day in my life perfectly! fun to watch! Good job!

Great video, thanks for this. I have my FTTP upgrade available in September. I have my switch and router in the living room behind a bar. Outside there is a box on top of the garage which is the only one I can see that looks like it has the land line coming in on. Its probably about 30-35 meters away from where I need it to be in the house. Will give this a go and try and run conduit through to where I want them to install the inside box.

Hats off to you for doing it properly, such a clean setup!

Great video now I know what to expect, getting my fttp upgrade next week. From katoomba we’ve been waiting quite a bit, unfortunate for the neighbours down the street though they have to wait till 2025

Hey mate, thanks for the great video. One question. Where did you get the plans for the NTD wall mount?

I did something very similar routing the fibre to my patch panel, so I appreciate your attention to detail. Thanks for sharing.

Great prep work!

The Japanese websites comment got me😂

I'm impressed you have the wired LAN in the house. I used to have that but in the end we were moving rooms layouts around so much and room reno's I ended up replacing it with wifi for my LAN. Its ok and does what I need it to, even though I've had to throw in an extender or 2. This week I finally get FTTP so I'm hoping the bandwidth can stand up to whatever the kids are going to smash it with.

Pfsense hardware from netgate supports the opensource project and to be honest interested in your opinion on selecting a router as i will be getting fiber sometime in the next 6 months.

Hey Mate - Great Video! Question - does the conduit have to go down the wall cavity? Similar to you I have it in the roof and bends going down each side... but on the PCD side, they have left it in the cavity to drop down for NBN as the location isn't clear for the PCD into brick. On the other side no drama - is a bend and draw string to the telephone port for them to install the new connection internally. Thoughts??

Good work - what's the expected upload? Is 1G upload not the norm? Also what's the delivery tech? GPON? I couldn't tell if that was single fiber stand or dual on your modem? Thanks

Got the upgrade recently. Went from 50mbps to 940mbps. I'm with ABB. Copper is shit. Every Aussie should have Fibre.

did they have any reservations that you wanted the internal box was too high on the wall ?

A very well done video. :)

I've been using Mikrotik routers at home since 2016, right now I'm on an RB760GSi (also called hex S), which has no problems with a 1000/1000 Mbit/s line with a few firewall rules.

I recommend a dual-nic ARM-based SBC that is supported by OpenWRT or Armbian, like the NanoPi R4S. They come in really cool metal heat-sink cases too

Great video, fair play for pulling it altogether. Coincidentally 1 & 2 Gb fibre has reached my area recently and while I was fortunate to have 330/35Mb over coax for years, the need for speed always increases. Gonna go with 1Gb. You must be loving the near 20 fold increase in your download though!

The fact you need NBN certified pipe is insane. In the US the installer would kiss you if you had any kind of conduit so they dont need to sling cable through the crawlspace or attic.

My Pin 3 is open circuit. Will I be able to connect the NBN box with my faulty CAT 5e cable? I can't find what wires are active. Maybe I can drop the Green wires? And get away with 6 of 8 wires?

Love it when drongos think they’re onto it how many sparky’s rolling around after this 😂

The house I bought already had FTTP and the installers intalled it on the closest corner to the kerb.... the master bedroom. My suburb was one of the first suburbs in Brisbane so everyone got a UPS with their fibre... Nothing like waking up at 2am to the sound of a UPS battery alarm (that you can only silence for 24hours)... To top it off, the UPS output was to a 6pin connector so I couldn't easily bypass it with a spare IEC laying around!! I think one of the pins was used for monitoring because I disconnected the battery and NBN knew about it "you can't touch our equipment" .. ITS MY MAIN BEDROOM AND BEEPING haha

What do you use that little raspberry PI screen for? Is there an article on it? It looks like an awesome idea in the switch plate

Paul, I have a compact comms box just like yours. NBN installed fttp on a tray *in the comms box*

Another advantage with FTTH is no second path for lightning to make its way in. lost over 10 modems to lightning (and attached devices) in my adsl/fttn time. What's the tplink modem you are using for the fttn service? FTTH is a long time off as an option

Is it possible to run a patch cable from the fttp box to another place in the house, I.e the modem is in another place and is just plugged into the wall (Ethernet) which is connected to the fttp box

There are some Raspberry CM4 router boards which use a second NIC connected thru pci-e without usb. Then it should handle 900Mbit/s routing with ease!

What size is that 'on the wall' template please? I need to do soon something identical to what you have done. Any help appreciated...

What router did you end up going with?

Oh man you just did 50% of the work!

Would that happen to be 2 aruba controllers that appear in the end of the video? looking forward to the video on you setting up your next router

Japanese Pixelization :) I see what you did there.. Also, just buy a pfsense+ box like the SG1100. They are quiet and low power, but super high performance for what they are.

I had a janky router setup for a while, upgraded to an EdgeRouter from Ubiquiti. It died. Got a replacement. It died. Finally got a APU2E0 from a OpnSense vendor here in Sweden and couldn't be happier. Doodling around in a lab is cool and fine but when your work needs a stable connection sometimes something made by others, used by many, can be preferable. Mine have worked without a hitch since I installed it a few years back. It does one thing. I don't really have to maintain it other than log in and hit Update once in a while. I know you probably like to roll your own, but give OpnSense a go. Cheers, mate.

I have a question about the second visit - when they pushed the fibre from outside, did the fibre attached to your string have the green connector on it already (I believe it is called an SC connector). Or did the guy inside pulling the string terminate it once it was through? I am just wondering how much the external hole has to be widened (where the street conduit came out your brick, and the fibre went back in on the outside of the conduit). Wide enough for just fibre, or the connector gets pulled through too?

Hey Paul great video looks like you can do great work, I'm looking fwd to my fttp upgrade they did mine a little different first appointment they just ran a orange draw wire from my house to the pit next appointment they do the rest

From what it looks like to me, you have the nbn that actually has the lines then the isp's are at the other end. In the states each isp is responsible for binging out their own lines for their own service. If that is the case how does that work? Or do I have it all wrong?

Lucky you have a simple dwelling for the conduit to run. I'm getting an upgrade in a couple of weeks, and I'm assuming they won't put the NTD where I'd like them to. Will go onto the 2nd story from the garage. Hopefully I get a competent tech who can find solutions. If not looks like I'll be running CAT6 cabling through the house. Question though; the phone line is overhead, does that mean the PCD can be placed in a position which will make the NTD easier to rout? Or does it have to be near the electrical box, or some other regulation on where it needs to go?

FTTP is awesome. AussieBroadband is a great ISP too. I noticed your switch puts out a heap of noise. I changed the fans out of my TP Link switch to 2x Noctua NF-A4x20. Its super silent now despit fans always running. Easy to do and means my network cabinet in my office doesnt disrupt the house. In fact, my work laptop fan is noisier now.

That's interesting, we have the same ONT here in NZ, but never seen an enclosure on one like that! Ours are all bare, people always take the AC adapter when they shift out

I got the upgrade to FTTP and also with ABB about 3 months back. I like you think I probably had the same gremlins needing fixed back up from ABB. Mainly, IPV6 address didn’t come across from the old service and IPv4. Additionally I had ABB set a reverse PTR record for the IP to my own rather than their system’s default - Important for my email server setup. I found a few calls to them / email got it all back to normal within 2 days. Still faster support and don’t shove you off like the big telcos. In the end everything transferred across just the way as it should have. For my Router I use a HP Thin Client with a 10G adapter via the m.2 slot. Project TinyLittleMicro has some options and I think Lyndel (Level1Techs) has a few videos. I use PFSense but a thinkclient /1ltr PC could be an option.

Curious what those two 40x4 LCD you have mounted in the cabinet do!

for a small router, mikrotik have some small options that are supposed to be quite good. runs their own os though, which is linux based but not the same afaik

Fibre getting installed on monday can't wait. Even though i already had 950 + download on hfc.

The A Team 🤣 thanks for sharing. 😊

Thanks for the video! My house has a 20 pair lead in cable (previous owners ran a small business from a home office). I think my conduit will be full - should give NBN something to do!

Huge fan of MikroTik myself, or VyOS on an x86 box.

Where'd you get the NBN conduit? Ps I've watched you cooking videos, you need more seasoning mate.

So I’m on ABB aswell but questing when you check your property it says $0 install but there’s additional costs you have to cover is it completely free upgrade or is there additional costs yku have to cover

Paul, what ISP are you using with your FTTP? (In Brisbane) I now have available free upgrade to FTTP and my current provider Internode doesn’t support the higher speeds. I'm wanting an ISP that has IPv6/56 with reverse DNS support which Internode supports on their standard plans. I’m also wanting a fixed IPv4 address which I think all ISP can now provide (at a cost).

Nice video... I would have suggested a cat6e cable to be run for future proofing. So that connector 2 pits down is called a CBT. Connectorised block terminal. Q: when setting up your router do ISP's in Australia use PPPOE, DHCP or static Ip address with a vlan to connect customers? In the UK they use PPPOE with a Vlan which can some time reduce speeds.

Where did you get the templates for the Netwrok termination device so i cant have the screw mounts ready and the internal fibre coming out the wall? I'm a certified fibre installer and electrician. I don't trust the NBN guys to do the job well so I'm having everything ready before hand where I want it.

G'day Paul! was wondering how long it takes for the full speed to kick in? I recently went from FTTN to FTTP and speed went from 50ish to 120-150 at times, its been about 24 hours and still not the near 600-1000 download speed i was promised

I think that certain japanese websites are supposed to have pixelation ;) I'd recommend pfSense or OpenWRT on some x86 hardware, an old thinclient with an Intel dual or quad gigabit nic should be enough. I'm jealous, I'll be stuck with 100 Mbit/s for another few years (rural Germany).

Im so frustrated i was booked for it 1 pm to 5 pm , nbn tech did not show up

how long did you have to wait to change from FTTN to FTTP? as i can't until after the Christmas and new years holidays

I tried to get superloop fttp upgrade yesterday it was a bloody nightmare had to cancel and find another ISP. Where did you get the conduct with the writing on it. Was going to get Bunnings stuff but don't want NBN to show up and not use it.

11:15 - did you set up a UPS for that power point?

Is nbn upgrade free? I lot of people claim it is unless they need extra trenching etc? But why would they need that

Gateway router upgrade an opportunity to have a play around with pfsense /opnsense on something like a thin client with a multi port nic?

Mate! Those nbn engineers must’ve loved you for all the work you did upfront. I got my installers do all this for my fttp install

Congrats. Have fun with the new fiber. It will be interesting to see which router you choose to replace the Rpi. In the past 12 months or so I experimented with: 1) netgate 2100 running pfsense 2) edge router lite running edgerouter OS 3) a Chinese mini pc with 4 lan ports to run pfsense (I was experimenting with load balancing using 3 fiber lines) All three worked very well. For size and simplicity edgerouter worked out best for me. My next experiment will be an HA setup using two edge routers. Love your videos.

I moved to an apartment which had 1st Gen FTTP. My NBN router has a UPS as a part of the setup. I believe the thinking for that 1st Gen FTTP was; As FTTP was also replacing the copper phone line, if there was a power outage to your residence, then you wouldn't have a phone... So, I noticed your NBN router didn't have a UPS... I'm thinking that the 2nd Gen FTTP was re-speced?

The drop of 13ms on the round trip time is why ppl should want FTTP. Re the router I struggled to find low power devices (5w) that could do gigabit so ended up with Protectli running my firewall and a few other tasks and it’s 10w of power at 1 Gig

I'm looking at running a conduit from the POI to my network enclosure - and then run from there dump the NBN equipment for the Nokia FTTH adapter directly.

I have a LinkSys WRT3200 running OpenWRT open source firmware as a router. Initially my NBN was also reporting half the speed, I researched and found that when I enabled "Software Offloading" and "Hardware Off loading", it went to full speed. So probably that is something you may look into for your Raspberry pi. I know not all routers have Hardware Off loading as it requires hardware support. However software offloading is implemented through software.

Thanks for sharing this! Great video as always 🤘

I feel like the japanese joke went over a lot of people's head.

Blooming heck-they stipulate the conduit ? And only 3 bends? You can have as many as you like,I’ve never heard of that anywhere, as long as you don’t have 180 degrees ones. Surprised that NBN are doing such asymmetrical speeds, must be GPON as opposed to XGS-PON

A decent drop in latency between before and after.... oh and nice 6300F :)

I am on Launtel 1000/50 that runs at 835/47 consistently with a UDM Pro as my Router. Tested the 1000/400 plan and handles upload speed fine-tests at 850/350. Telstra Business Router V7610 would only upload at 48mbps

1:23 It's a side point, I know, but I'm curious as to what this modem is. Is it a VDSL modem in a SFP device, plugged into a TP-Link MC220L? Hopefully within 12 months, I won't care because supposedly an FTTN → FTTP upgrade is coming to my town.

Did they use the copper to the street as a pull-through? Just asking because I said to the guy who did my place to use it as the pull-through but he said they weren't allowed to do that and the copper had to stay there. No idea why because it's just taking up space in the *non* NBN conduit I laid 22 years ago. He did use the copper to the first point in the house as a pull-through after I said for him to do that. Gee, two guys showed up each time, I had one show up and he did the fibre pull-through and the setup inside the house in less than 2½ hours by himself sort of. I did help with the run into the house. I'm on stumps so it was a short and easy length to run. I have a phone pit in my driveway so I was surprised when he had to run the fibre to the pit next ro us.

i use mikrotik and they are awsome!

You lucky duck #WHERESMYLIGHTPIPE? Tidy install btw! I see so many dodgy NBN installs where they use flexible electrical conduit, in AS/CA S008 it clearly states to use comms conduit and a minimum number of bends & sweeps. I'd trust you doing electrical work more than some DIY hacks, you clearly know what your doing ;)

I have just had 944 fibre and was only getting 190 using a Ubiquity USG-3P Security Gateway, turned out I had threat protection on. Turned it off and now I'm getting 950+

Great video - I am stuck with FTTN (for now!). I was wondering if you can share the details of the modem you use please? Thank You!

Now that you have FTTP, are you planning on upgrading your cabling to Fiber too, or are you leaving it as Cat 5/6 (which one do you have). Also did you do your own powerpoint?

Eventually I just threw my router onto my proxmox cluster. Pfsense VMs with CARP/VRRP for HA. Works fine for gigabit with 2cores/2gb ram each. You could probably do something similar with openWRT if you want to stick with a linux router. Or even do it from scratch like your rPi router

Welcome to the gigabit club

Great video, would you explore possibility of be using pfsense ?

Useful vid, getting FTTH very shortly. Was wondering how it might work, as the current copper is piped through our garage, then underground (in a shared 50 core cable) through conduit to the house, then no conduit to a patch panel, and if I was to make this happen, multiple bends (9 maybe). Its probably easier for me to plan for termination and conduit in the garage then deal with internal house cabling. Cheers for the useful info.

japanese websites that had some pixelation....I see what you did there :)

Proxmox + VM for OPNSense on a spare PC a bit more gruntier than the raspberry pi should do the trick :)

I’m surprised they throttled down your upload speed and at so very low speed also! The selling point in Europe for fiber is its simultaneous speeds

NBN tech that updated my FTTC to FTTP did everything exactly how asked - I guess there are good NBN techs after all :D Of course, my run was simple compared to yours!

Wow its taken this long for you to get FTTP I've had it in the NT for over 10yrs now and didnt need to have any conduit in the ceiling space I also got the NBN UPS with my install which is great for power outages. FYI to anyone else looking at getting it done, they have to install it where ever you the client/homeowner like as its your property.

Let me know if you wanna play around with bypassing the ntd and doing direct fibre to sfp I've managed to get it working on opticomm fttp (gpon) i imagine it's possible on nbn fttp as well I've seen some enterprise nbn fibres terminate to Nokia sfp's

it really sucks australia is far behind when it comes to internet, also if that's not bad enough, nbn scamming with locked uploaded speeds of 5mb/s on the upload side, that's very very slow, the highest retail speed you can get for home is 1000 download / 50 upload. NBN are milking the upload speeds, there is a symmetric enterprise business plan of 1000/1000 but do you know how much they are charging for a ridiculous price over $2,000+ a month! In other countries especially in Asian, they already have 10gigabit speeds for download and uploads and cost very cheap, yet we still only in garbage 1gbps download and 5mb/s upload, yet australians don't complain or do anything about it, very dodgy and scam aus internet is.

I would love to have a fibre cabinet that isn't at least 5 blocks away from me 😲

I didn’t catch it. Why was your upload worse than coax?

Are you a licensed sparky or are you just doing it and getting them to sign it off for you

dfrobot router board if you want to say in the raspberry pi realm

1 single fibre will feed 4 homes

Lucky bar…..