In-reply-to » Incurred ~16 dropouts over the last 48hrs with ~5m outage per dropout. So I finally cracked the shits and run up my ISP to figure wtf was going on. ๐Ÿค” Turns out after a quality test on the line it was showing ~5-6DB average SNR ๐Ÿ˜ฑ So filed a fault with the infrastructure provider (NBN Co) whose own equipment picked up the 16 dropouts and also found noise 1/2 way up the 450m Copper cable ๐Ÿ˜…

And later on in the document on How vDSL works in Australia:

Prior to the deployment of VDSL2 technology for
FTTN, FTTB, and FTTC, the main DSL technology
employed in Australia was ADSL / ADSL2+ which
used signals up to 2 Megahertz (MHz). To achieve
much higher speeds than ADSL, VDSL2 expands
the DSL signal spectrum to up 17 MHz, which
happens to overlap with many Australian amateur
radio signal bands.

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