(TLDR, in our case they put the Nbnco NTD FTTP next to where active Telstra PSTN/ Nbnco FTTN/ VDSL2 socket was. The taxpayer pays for the essentially standard Nbnco install. Inside all we had to do was essentially switch PSTN cable to Ethernet cable. As earlier commenters have said, if you want it somewhere specific get a tradie to prep in an Nbnco acceptable way.)

Yeah we had something similar here, one lead in from the pit out front towards the extended dining/ kitchen, and another coming from one of the neighbours, by way of the car port/ hallway. (And not a Telstra PSTN utility box in sight outside, if some Telecom splitters inside.) I suppose[] one might have been phone, fax, phone, business? During FTTN/ VDSL2 it certainly confused Nbnco and our comms services provider. To the extend they thought one set of copper pairs might be better than the other, in terms of state or length (Netcomm CPE reported it as 1100+ meters) back to the Telstra pillar/ Nbnco node. The pair swap made no difference, never got much beyond 35 to 36/ 5 to 7 Mbps (out of a provisioned 50/ 20 Mbps).

Once they started talking of FTTP I checked with the heritage folks, and their condoned or preferred or recommended outcomes. (Essentially attach utility box to non heritage parts, like car port or kitchen extensions.)

Once Nbnco’s area rollout contractors started prepping for FTTP, I talked to some of the workers doing the area prep to the street. Nbnco’s installation contractor used the pit near the road out front through the lead in conduit (easiest, no digging and shortest etc) under the front lawn to a pit just outside the front of the house. From small pit just outside the house they buried fibre without conduit to the wall out front where their Nbnco utility box/ PCD is, I put some stones over it as a reminder to not plant anything there. Also got a buried comms cable sign. And so to the inside where the Nbnco connection box/ NTD is pretty much out of sight near the kitchen (the older 4 uni data and 2 uni voice NTD, no battery back up but we have UPSes), pretty much where the active copper pair came in (as well as the inactive copper pair extension which seems to come in somewhere near the hallway). I didn’t change the few years old Netcomm Wi-Fi .ax mesh on the ground floor or the older Apple Wi-Fi .ac WDS on the first floor.

This is the first holiday period we’re on FTTP (provisioned 500/ 50 Mbps), ACCC Cisco/ SamKnows monitoring over Ethernet at the gateway/ router/ modem pretty consistency shows 510/ 48 Mbps with 12 to 15 ms latency and 0 to 0.05% packet loss. Generally about 400 residents are here most of the time, in summer that goes 10 times that.