Hi all,
Just wondering if it's worth getting the battery backup unit (BBU) for one's FTTP NBN connection.
It's free of charge currently - am getting Skymesh NBN finally after using my mobile/dongle etc for internet in our new house over this year. Receptions gotten worse so NBN time finally (That and I wasn't aware skymesh style affordable options existed for NBN).
I currently have the NTD in my garage back wall connected directly to power. I was worried that by taking up the free BBU i lose the power point option - as the BBU then takes over as the connection point for the NTD doesn't it? So if the BBU battery runs out/dies then i assume the NTD then can't plug directly through to power and you can get away with not replacing the BBU?
How hard and expensive is it to replace the BBU yourself? Is it worth the hassle, or just stick to having the NTD directly to power without a BBU installed?
Need to know/decide today as Skymesh will send out guys to install if so. Would anyone know also if it is secured into the wall quite shallow - the NTD box was drilled through our single brick wall out the other side (huge hole in plaster that builder patched). Given we now live there any hole out the other side would be at our own inconvenience in fixing.
I didn't bother with it in either of my NBN installs. The reality is, I don't have any kind of landline phone - and I wasn't going to be protecting my router with any kind of UPS - so having the NTD online during a power outage was entirely pointless for me.