Coverage

Connection types

Australia's NBN comes in five physical flavours, and knowing which one you have changes everything from which router to buy to where a fault is likely sitting.

FTTP

The fastest NBN connection type — fibre runs all the way into your home

FTTN

Fibre to a street cabinet, then your existing copper phone line the rest of the way

FTTB

Fibre to a comms cabinet in the building's basement, then internal phone wiring to your unit

FTTC

Fibre to a small distribution point near the street, a short final copper run to your home

HFC

Fibre to a local node, then the same coaxial cable used for old pay-TV networks into your home