Re: @ vid
"Your "Dude from Telstra" was an idiot...and comparing an NTD to an ethernet port makes no sense at all. An NTD has several ethernet ports, but that is not what terminates your signal. I don't think you understand what you are talking about..."The dude from Telstra was talking about the cost of the very long trench to connect two systems together when a very short trench would have sufficed. The $15 for an Ethernet port for access to boradband came from a Japanese telco dude via Simon Hackett. I don't think Hackett's "an idiot".
Please explain why I need four Ethernet ports when surely one would suffice. The $600 cost for the NTD came from the nbn Co installer.