Melbourne area
Cloudy. High chance of showers about the Dandenongs, medium chance elsewhere. Winds southwesterly 30 to 45 km/h.
Min 11 Max 18
Shower or two. Becoming windy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 2 mm Chance of any rain: 60%
Fire Danger - High
Sun protection recommended from 9:10 am to 5:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Copper technologies in general are not fit for purpose.
FTTC boxes are also more sensitive to lightning strikes.
I have heard that. I’ve also heard that sometimes after power outages the actual DPU pit doesn’t come back online how it’s meant to, and can require an NBN technician to come out and look into it
Since the DPUs are reverse powered, I wonder if you plugged your NCD into a UPS if that means you’d still have internet and phone lines during a power outage? We had a brief power outage at my last place a few weeks ago, and it was a couple blocks away (listed as “animal damage”) We only lost power for about 5 seconds before I guess another nearby grid picked out house back up. It seems our nearest HFC exchange or pit or whatever they use was right near the power pole that was damaged was, so our internet was dead until morning when Jemena finally got someone round to fix it