WIRING WORRIES FOR NBN

IF YOU’RE struggling with poor download speeds and dropouts when using your home broadband, it could be the fault of old copper wiring that runs to and from telephone sockets inside your home, the NBN says.

The government-backed company tasked with rolling out the National Broadband Network is set to trial a new diagnostic tool designed to remotely find out whether a premises has copper wiring faults that are causing poor speeds and dropouts.

The testing comes after a preliminary study earlier this year of nearly 800 homes found that one in two premises suffering speed performance issues had inhome wiring faults.

“In many of these cases, poor wiring caused download speeds to degrade by more than 50 per cent,” an NBN spokeswoman said.