@whoisashygirl So, while NBN to me means National Broadband Network, to you it's No Bloody Network? I used to work for Telstra & still have the old superseded microfiche plans of the area. Using those I was able to determine that my conversion from ADSL 2+ to FTTN was only going to have 135 metres of phoneline – including internal wiring – downstream of the node. That's about as good as one can expect. I'm averaging around 99% of the connection speed I'm paying for, again quite acceptable.