My mate lives in Greenwich, he asked the NBN guys to install into an existing Pit out the front and run the line up the driveway to the house, like all the other lines into their property.

they ran to a pit further down the street, then through the fence (digging up and replacing a section of the concrete sill under it) through the side and back yards all the way around to the back of the house to a point that is going to be hard for him to use.

My apartment isn't due for NBN for at least a few more years and we're near Epping in Sydney. we also have mediocre internet because of all the stuffing around they did with the street junction box a few years ago. we haven't bothered getting a streaming service because I have no confidence that we'll be able to smoothly watch stuff. we struggle with the free view catch-up channels...