National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

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Originally Posted by OffTrack

You'll get no argument from me on that one ;)

Mind you Telstra has been letting the copper cabling decay in the ground. If the NBN hadn't gone ahead Telstra would have faced pulling new cable in large sections of inner city Melbourne for example. You could argue that the Fed Govt. paid too much for the copper network simply because much of it needs replacing with fibre anyway.

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Thats exactly it, I think that it should have been done a long long time ago also, but the other motivation is that everywhere is down to the last sets of copper pairs and they're only a micron thick. I was a boarding master at my previous school, the copper was all decayed and they layed a fibre backbone through the whole place and the tapped into the internet provider directly for the speed.

Personally, I cant wait for the NBN to roll out. When my house was built it was done with a spare conduit to the road for the cable to come through. I dont live in town or in a city and so ADSL isn't an option. Sat is expensive and I understand slow, through the microwave dish or whatever it is is also really expensive so the economical alternative is through NextG. Sounds fantastic as whatever lightening speed it is meant to deliver, but the reality is that it is a slow POS system that pretty much jams up at peak times ie between about 7.30-8.45pm every night. Cable to the house cant come fast enough out here!

If you live anywhere outside the main cities, you may be interested to look at teh NBN maps of where they are (and are not) laying fibre. As a general rule, they are only laying fibre in towns with over 1000 premises, and if you are not in one of these you will get either wireless or satellite. If you are far out of town, you will only get satellite.

I have just had one of the 200 trial installs of the NBN first release satellite system. This is not very different to the previous satellite installation except for a 50% increase in download speed to 6mbps, a 50% decrease in upload speed to 1mbps, a 50% increase in power consumption, and a noticeable increase in reliability - as far as can be judged from three days experience!

John

Similar to Slunnie,
I can see the benefits of NBN but I fear that by the time the network rolls this far north all you peoples will have implanted chips and access the inter-brain-net with no need for infrastructure at all!

S

I have both telstra and optus cable outside my place, have had both at different times. (both eyesores hanging off the power poles) Much of a muchness, download speed ranges from 1 Mb/s to 160 Mb/s but averages about 20 Mb/s. Up load is always around 1 Mb/s. Pings range from 10ms to 39ms but mostly in the 20s. ADSL didn't cut it but I tried it for a while as there was a long wait period to get a service out of the cable suppliers due to the need to send a tech to install the box on the side of the house. ADSL was all done at the exchange and got a modem in the mail, all up in approx a week.

Some of the frustration is often down to the speed of the server that you are pulling stuff down from. At times this forum can be rather choked up with lots of people on it. However I still look forward to the forum and the roll out of the NBN. As for wireless technologies, good for the Y Gen that must be connected 24/7 but not real quick.

The nbn co has not bought telstra's network of copper, fibre or wireless. The agreement is the 9bn or 11b whatever it is, is to LEASE the pit and pipe network as well as dark fibre the inter exchange network ( which telstra is upgrading now). This is a 35yr lease which has a extension on it, cant remember how much. Part of the agreement is that telstra turns off the copper network gradually transferring people onto nbn fibre network. Telstra will still own the pit and pipe in street but, when a LEADIN conduit has a nbn fibre pulled in nbn will take ownership of that conduit.(only one bill if you dig it up) Yes it's confusing. telstra will still provide wireless services. nbn co is a money grab for greedy intheknow bastards, why? those working for nbn are buying shares in the companys they award contract's to, to supply fibre, test equipment, and fibre cleaning gear. ie cletop. You think there's a conflict of interest there? An nbn employee told me that.

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Originally Posted by abaddonxi

I check out the website every couple of months and very little seems to change or be updated.

And I keep being surprised that the largest capital works program ever is providing so little information to the public and getting away with it. By now I was expecting that there'd be lots more places connected and a detailed map and plan of the rollout, same as when adsl was introduced.

Maybe I'm just not looking at the right website.:angel:

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Have you seen this?
NBN Co - Maps

REBOOTING AN OLD THREAD
WE GOT OUR NBN ONLINE TODAY ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT FAR FAR BETTER THAN THE OLD TELSTRA 3/4G WIFI

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Great news for you - how come rural areas are getting this before me! :D

We only got broadband in this town 10 years ago, and there are still limited ports, so most here are on crappy wireless connections and I know a few that only moved off dial up 12.months ago, and we're only 1/2 hour from the CBD. I'm guessing we should have the NBN around 2020...

Wait until the people in your locality discover Netflix.
I am unimpressed with my NBN. It is better than dial up though.

Anyone who has wireless nbn make sure you do a speed test and ensure you are getting what you pay for. I signed up for a 12mbps plan and was only getting 5mbps. Rang my service provider and they fixed it straight away. Had a neighbour who had the exact same thing with a different provider. He had 25mbps plan and was only getting 2mbps. It's been pretty good other than that.