Optus Cable Networks

**milld** · 3rd September 2010, 04:09 PM

It would be nice to be in Sydney or Melbourne to have cable wouldn't it, but there are millions of people who don't have access to it including me. I'm sorry to say but copper still dominates overall for use in homes and businesses Australia wide. Every business and home has something whats called a main distribution frame or MDF. homes are fed via a 2pr copper cable usually and businesses usually have a 10pr,30pr, 50pr or a 100pr copper lead in cable. Most PABX's and PBX use either a PSTN or ISDN service which is through the use of copper and backbone through optic fibre or straight fibre in some instances. Most data for businesses and the home Australia wide is still used through broadband or straight DSL connections. Larger businesses tend to rely on multiple ADSL connections through load balancing routers. Cable isn't available to most Australians

Oh, and any calls I receive that have that delay, I simply hang up because it's always some bastard overseas trying to sell me something. Voip calls on average depending on what codec is used only uses around 60Kbps of bandwidth, which is sweet **** all, set up correctly it sounds good. Too many noobs don't set it up right.

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 3rd September 2010, 04:19 PM

You forgot to mention that people living in Brisbane also have access to Optusnet cable.

However the question about VoIP and Telstra copper is moot, because the thread is about the Optusnet Cable speeds.

It would be the same as posting about your Kruger .22 on a Defender forum!

**milld** · 3rd September 2010, 04:43 PM

I'm just responding to faulty information that's all, and my short comment on voip and ADSL/saving money I feel was a valid thought for people considering breaking away from the ties of line rental. + it still to do with internet. It's just when people start slandering something they don't know much about that I feel I have to correct.

cheers

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 3rd September 2010, 05:02 PM

I understand that you are trying to assist people make the correct IT choices and it would/will be good when the vast majority of Australians have access to fibre to the home technology - should they desire it (and I wonder why so few people in the bush voted for the NBN).

However my question on the cost of the superfast Optusnet cable have not been answered, while we've been debating irrelevancies of the nasties about Telstra copper and VoIP.

Diana

BTW - some of the VoIP where I have problems receiving calls from, are not overseas call centres but are even people on Foxtel/Bigpond cable in Sydney, so the Telstra telephone copper shouldn't even come into the equation. But it does and is annoying!

**milld** · 3rd September 2010, 05:53 PM

yeah it would be nice for all to have fibre to the home, but the cost would be astronomical. Fibre terminating equipment Fusion Splicers have come down in price but it's still expensive stuff to work with and time consuming. Even the connectors are expensive. Fibre cable itself is quite cheap though. I can't even fathom the amount of work needed to be done to achieve this.

I can't comment on the cost of superfast Optusnet Cable, but I'm quite jealous of those who have it lol

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 3rd September 2010, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by milld

yeah it would be nice for all to have fibre to the home, but the cost would be astronomical.
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I can't even fathom the amount of work needed to be done to achieve this.
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I can't even start to fathom how much money 43 billion dollars is either!

Although I would like to get even 1% of that in my annual paypacket!

**p38arover** · 3rd September 2010, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by milld

8 megabytes/sec is amazing, much more than 8 megabits/sec or 8Mbps

1MBps = 8 Mbps

I misread the post. (Actually, with stops bits, etc. isn't 1MBps closer to 10Mbps?)

Re ADSL, I can't get it here.

**milld** · 3rd September 2010, 06:50 PM

I found a calculator online that does the conversion;

8 megabits is ;

Bits 8388608
bytes 1048576
kilobits 8192
kilobytes 1024
megabits 8
megabytes 1
gigabits 0.0078125
gigabytes 0.0009765625
terabytes 9.5367431640625e-07
petabytes 9.31322574615479e-10

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 3rd September 2010, 07:40 PM

you forgot zetabits

1 Mbps = 1.11022302 × 10-16 ZBps

Originally Posted by p38arover

I misread the post. (Actually, with stops bits, etc. isn't 1MBps closer to 10Mbps?)

Re ADSL, I can't get it here.

Ron

Am I to understand that you HAVE Optusnet Cable but you are unable to get ADSL?

Just shows to go you!

**abaddonxi** · 3rd September 2010, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I misread the post. (Actually, with stops bits, etc. isn't 1MBps closer to 10Mbps?)

Re ADSL, I can't get it here.

Ability to buy faulty goods (abfg)?

Or are you on something like pair gain? Doesn't look like you're that far from the exchange.

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