Thread: National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

My school paid to get fibre run from the local railway station to the premises. It made a huge difference. We are heavy data users though with over 600 laptops connected simultaneously.
Bottom line is the rest of the world is going fibre all the way while this country is stuffing around with cheapskate Stone Age copper - just ridiculous.
A friend just moved from Brisbane to Battam in Indonesia and his connecton there is all fibre and far better than what he could get in Brisbane.

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That's not really comparing apples with apples.

Geography, population, legacy infrastructure (virtually none), penetration etc, etc are very different to what we have.


They only have 2% penetration on fixed line broadband (not necessarily FTTP) and 5% Household penetration. They also use a mix of tech including fixed wireless. Their biggest growth has been with mobile broadband.

As an expat, I am guessing your friend may be living in a flash new building that is prewired with fibre and is no way representative of the typical infrastucture.

While we all would like FTTP that's not what's happening, minimum standard is 25Mb/s (sucks I know but twice as goods as average ADSL services). FTTN must be installed such that copper is no longer than 1000 metres to ensure that minimum standard can be met, if that is not being provided then it needs to be remediated.

I try to educate myself what is coming in the way of tech improvments to the FTTN option. There are several developments that are promising excellent performance on copper and another option (FTTdp) which approximates speeds of FTTP but maintains the reduced rollout cost of FTTN.

FTTdp will be rolled out to folk serviced by Optus HFC and also those that are further than 1KM from a node. Would be good if this would be more widely used once it begins to be deployed.

Yes, any school, hospital, medium to large business (device wise) should be connected using FTTP. Anything else is unacceptable.

I get a peak of 2.5mbs/s curently and will take any improvement i can get. When it finally comes my way I'll be aiming to get a 100/40 plan. If I get upwards of 60Mb/s down I'll be happy. If not then I'll review my options.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yup... that Apex gang, multifaceted weather, ridiculously high proliferation of speed cameras with low tolerance, Eddie McGuire.....

Who could ask for more

Hey, they're all plusses....





.....except for Eddie McGuire.