Any contributions, assistance or feedback can be directed to nbn (at) gleneaglesestate.net.
If you want this to happen, we need your help, otherwise it has no chance of succeeding. Simple.
Your support, even if it simply ‘spreading the word’ to the neighbours either side of you, would be greatly appreciated.
Please register your interest using the ‘register your interest‘ button at the top of the page, if you are supportive of the proposal. Please also use the voting buttons at the home page of this site.
Thank you.
The Gleneagles Estate NBN Community Committee
I have made numerous unsuccessful attempts to log in with the complicated password provided and have now given up! I am interested in what you are doing and would like to attend relevant meetings, but so far have found your site to be quite complicated in terms of set-up
I am sorry it was a difficult experience. The process is click on register your interest, enter your name, email etc. and hit send booking. The website will email you back with a login id and password. From there you can use that to login.
I will update the booking page to reflect this.
Cheers
Steve
Does anyone know what the plans to get ADSL 2+ down our way?
Tophat (add on which would give us adsl2) is very unlikely given it is a telstra asset, and nbnco will be rolling out vdsl2 over next 3-5 years with that infrastructure.
Our proposal is about co-funding with nbnco a fibre to the home solution, and pushing the priority of such a deployment to get it sooner.
Just a quick note – the sign for the meeting on 1 December is too small to read without stopping when driving past – might be worth posting a larger sign so people who haven’t logged on can read…
You guys are doing a great job though – hope we can get an improvement in our BB speeds…
I will try and print out some bigger stickers with just “1 DEC 6:30PM” – thank you for the heads up.
Hey Steve
Worked a treat – sorry I couldn’t make it last night (work commitments at the last minute)…how did the meeting go?
Thanks…
Ok ignore me I found the front page and registered YES
Can you please advise how I could log in and register our interest.
The registration page errors each time I tried
I have changed the login process to a simpler plug in, hopefully it works a bit nicer than the last one. Please let me know if probs. Thanks Steve
Hi Steve,
Any recommendations around ISP’s – which ones provide the fastest service to the Stage 2 Estate?
I am with Dodo currently and the (ADSL1) speed is terrible. I heard iinet have a new (faster) offering?
Is it worth putting a poll together to seek opinions?
Cheers
Paul
Hi,
Unfortunately Telstra have the best backhaul to exchanges (since they own them) and they also have a very good relationship with a particular company which has a wholesale monopoly on the copper – “Telstra Wholesale” who provide us with the ADSL1 on CMUX here. IINET/TransACT/TPG VDSL2 network is not available in the estate – we have tried.
I hate to say it, though Telstra is your best RSP at the moment.
We are actually getting close to working with NBN for a fibre solution through Technology Choice (individual premises) program. Info on this website.
Cheers
Steve2
Hi,
Thought I’d post my positive experience to assist others- we have iPrimus with excellent ADSL1 speeds upto 7Mbps (average 5 – 6).
Thanks for this – FYI you can use the speedtest link to gleneagles ‘speedwave’ to compare your results etc. if you want. Link to speedtest is on the right hand side or click here:
http://www.gleneaglesestate.net/NBN/?p=28
Hi Steve
Given that NBN will not get to Mt Vernon Drive for at least 18 months if not longer, have you discovered any way that I.T. intensive home businesses can get good internet speeds?
Cheers
Jim
We have explored all options trust me..however offhand I guess I would try the following:
(1) get registered cabler to relocate modem as close to the lead in as possible (2) consider second ADSL phone line and load balance between them (this only works for mutli-threaded applications though) or (3) consider load balancing with external 4g antenna. we have a few businesses in the estate who have the same problem. You could always join the committee, we have a few people on it who run their business from home (or try to I should say) and perhaps putting collective heads together may offer an interim solution.
Many thanks Steve
And thanks for the great effort you have been putting in for the Gleneagles community. I for one greatly appreciate your initiative and hope it leads to a great outcome from NBN Co. whenever they finally reach our area.
How do I register? I click on the link to register, enter my email and a password and it tells me that my username is invalid.
Will email you Don
Hi Everyone
Having just received a “vote for me” pamphlet from one of the candidates in the upcoming ACT Election, I have just emailed that candidate to explain the poor internet service we get in Gleneagles, and more importantly I have asked the candidate to detail for me what specific actions they will take to ensure all of our homes on the two Estates get fibre to the home, and not fibre to the node.
I will repeat the above strategy with every candidate who asks for my vote.
I think it would carry quite a bit of influence if each home owner on our two Estates individually made similar requests of each candidate as well. This type of individualised action from home owners will do much to add weight to the efforts Steve and his Committee are also putting in to this important issue.
Best wishes
James Cooney
Nice one!
We have worked closely with our Federal Representatives, who are very aware of the project 🙂 The ACT Chief Minister’s office was engaged as well who made some helpful enquiries.
I believe you are right, and at worst the political pressure will move within party ranks to their federal counterparts.
Cheers
Thanks Steve
I will let you know if anyone responds to my emails. So far I have emailed Jeremy Hanson, Peter Hosking, Mark Kulasingham, and Giulia Jones and none have responded yet.
Chhers
Thanks!
Hi Steve
As promised I emailed Jeremy Hanson, Peter Hosking. Mark Kulasingham, and Giulia Jones in August asking them to specifically comment on whether they will use their influence to actively campaign for fibre to the home for all Gleneagles residents.
Giulia Jones and Jeremy Hanson have not replied (despite me sending a second email to them at the beginning of September).
I have received positive replies from Peter Hosking and Mark Kulasingham (see below).
RESPONSE FROM PETER HOSKING
Hi James,
Sorry for the slow response. I need to get further information about this about what the Federal Government has planned already and when it will be rolled out. However, I will be advocating for the best possible service for you. I think particularly in your situation, running a small business, there is a strong case to be made for fibre to the premises.
If i’m Elected we can work together to get this done for you and for all of Gleneagles.
Please let me know there is anything else I can do.
Thanks,
Peter
Peter Hosking
Liberal for Murrumbidgee
http://Www.facebook.com/peterhoskingmurrumbidgee
0421 500 218 E:phosking@canberraliberals.org.au
RESPONSE FROM MARK KULASINGHAM
Hi James
Thanks for getting in touch.
I totally agree with you that more needs to be done to get fast broadband rolled out across Canberra – especially southern Canberra, where it is currently severely lacking.
I am a big supporter of Labor’s FTTH policy. I see it as, in many ways, our most important infrastructure and economic policy initiative. If Australian businesses and individuals are to thrive and compete in the twenty-first century, then we need internet connections that are up to this, and that will help promote new jobs and new industries. FTTN will end up costing us more in the long run – indeed, early indications are that it is already costing us more!
Unfortunately communications is a Federal Constitutional power, so there are limited options at the ACT Government level for addressing the southside’s broadband issues. All I can say with confidence is that, if elected, I’ll use what public profile I have to speak out on this issue and to pressure the Federal Government of the day (be it Liberal or Labor) to back FTTH and to get it rolled out to southern Canberra ASAP. I myself ran a home based business some years ago and know exactly what you mean!
In terms of other Labor candidates positions on this issue, I think you’ll find that most of us are quite passionate about FTTH. Efforts by the Liberals to make sure the ACT is among the last places to get the NBN have really rankled with our fellow Canberrans.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more direct help; best of luck with your practice and do keep in touch!
Best regards
Mark
E: mark.kulasingham@act.alp.org.au
I’m not sure if anyone else on the estate has emailed the 4 candidates above, but if they need hopefully this is keeping our needs at the forefront even though only the federal ministers have power to genuinely influence the NBN.
Best wishes
Hi Steve
Another response this time from Chris Steel:
Hi James
You won’t find a bigger advocate for the NBN in Kambah than me. While it isn’t in my material, because it is in the Federal realm, I am happy to advocate on the issue with Gai Brodtmann, your local Federal Member if I am elected.
You might be aware but Gai has been running a campaign to bring the NBN to the Southside. Gai has been running a petition on this issuewhich i encourage you to sign: http://www.gaibrodtmann.com.au/nbn_for_canberrahttp://www.gaibrodtmann.com.au/nbn_for_canberra
I understand the terrible predicament that people in Gleneagles face with some of the slowest speeds in Australia (i couldn’t believe people were still on ADSL1!). I also know that Gleneagles is without access to iiNet’s moderately fast VDSL 2 network 80 down/30up which some other parts of Kambah are connected to.
You quite right to point out that this is a huge productivity issue for businesses.
Labor brought our NBN plan to the Federal election in July. Gai Brodtmann MP and I are in discussions about where we go from here about our plans to continue to advocate on the issue here in Canberra following the election loss.
Rest assured that as the only Kambah resident running at the election I will be advocating on this issue, because so many residents have raised it as a priority.
If you are ok with it I would like to forward your email through to Gai so that she can get in touch with you, as your situation is a great example about why we need the NBN rolled out here.
Sincerely
Chris Steel
Labor for Murrumbidgee
chris.steel@act.alp.org.au
http://www.chrissteel.com.au
I have tried to register numerous times but it tells me my email address is not valid. I know that it is valid. Help!
Steve,
Congratulations to you and your committee on your achievements so far. Tonight’s meeting was informative and well attended and I hope motivating to the sceptics. I hope you get a major percentage of locals signed up. I fear however that some will simply just wait while others commit now. As I said at the meeting, I hope those who don’t commit can’t simply take advantage of those who do.
I received my notification today that my Telstra NBN pack will arrive by Friday. Interesting to see if my current speed of 6 improves.
Well done.
Ron Shepherd
Thanks heaps mate, and yep you certainly will (at least 12/1 in th first 18 months, then they have to provide 25/5). NBN themselves I expect should give you an activation date at some point soon now your order is in. FTTP is the way to go through, and worth the investment. Quality, reliability and scalability are things FTTP will give you, and it will be something FTTN users will crave for years to come.
How have Gleneagles folks been going with Telstra adsl reliability over the past 2 weeks? I’m finding my Telstra internet access via adsl has become almost useless most days – slow or no access at all. Phone ok. I’m using Telstra mobile data via my iPhone hotspot for my PC at these times, but even that is showing signs of congestion at peak times – and I’m chewing up my mobile data allowance at the same time. Telstra ssp shows no problems for 2902. Suspect current ADSL internet service reliability may have been reduced now that fttn is rolling out here. I’ve signed up for fttn and hope to have my new modem soon – maybe things will improve? – at least get back a service that works all the time?
Im sorry, however the positive is this wont happen with FTTP.
FTTN has been set up for co-existence with ADSL.
I suspect its a case of whenever a technician touchers the pillar, things happen for people that are not good.
This doesnt happen with FTTP.
yes people are getting multiple drop outs. Annoying,
Thanks Steve
School holidays also a factor of course – most likely just poorly managed congestion at a time when network re-dimensioning is in play for our fttn rollout?
Geoff P
No worries. Backhaul to the estate is fine when we are only using ADSL1. We both know the minute that someone lifts the lid off that pillar and touches ANYTHING, all hell breaks loose. 🙂
Hence we are fighting so hard for FTTP to get rid of the copper completely.
Hi Steve, I have made numerous, frustrating attempts to register and express my interest in the initial quote of FTTP project. Alas I have had no success to date. Please let me know how I can overcome this problem and how I can participate in getting a quote for FTTP.
Thanks
Hi, My wife and I are moving to Gleaneagles in just over a month after buying a house on Mt Vernon Drive. The current owner tell me they have Fibre To The Node (FTTN) for their Internet and have given indicative speeds which seem to be ok. My wife and I would like to get on to FTTP and take advantage of the good work that has been done by the community here over the last 5 years. Is there a process for new connections to FTTP for us to follow? Thanks.
email sent. Will look to see if there is interest in forming a group.