Fibre to the Node (FTTN) & Your Home/Office Cabling

Daniel Anderson • Jun 07, 2019

Is my premises cabling really causing slow speeds?

NBN can be quick to conclude that customer cabling is the culprit for slow speed issues and drop outs – but can the cabling in your house cause such a problem?

In Short, Yes.

Your internal cabling can make a significant difference in the stability and speed of your nbn Fibre-to-the-Node service.

Let’s take a trip back in time, back to when our telephone network simply handled plain old telephone services (or POTS for short).

Generally, the wiring inside your home didn’t really matter too much – as long as the wires were connected – you could hear the person on the other end.

There were 2 typical ways in which homes were cabled, which were “Daisy-Chained” or “Star Topology”.

We can touch on these below:

So what difference does this cabling make??

The attainable data rates for the Daisy Chain and Star configurations are shown in the Table below.
(Please note that the baseline data rates were measured at 86.7Mbits/s downstream, 32.9Mbits/s upstream.)

As you can see, the presence of Star and/or Daisy Chained Cabling can have a significant reduction in your lines max attainable rate (max throughput speed).

In this particular study, the daisy chain configuration observed a 47% reduction in downstream and 1% reduction upstream. In the star configuration, there was a 62% reduction downstream and 23% reduction upstream.

What can I do?

For the best performance on the nbn Fibre-to-the-Node network,we recommend that our customers contact a local licensed telecommunications cabler to have their home cabling remedied.

New and old homes can benefit from premise cabling remediation and nbn frequently request that a customers internal cabling be checked to assist in resolving a fault.

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