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

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Maybe for you Mr Marsh,,
I'm surprised Sean has mains electricity

is there an undersea cable from Enzed??

from "Enzed" you ask... didn't you know we are known as the "West Island"?

Originally Posted by Tombie

Keep in mind many servers restrict each connection to control loads so unless its torrent based data you're pulling in, many servers won't flood your bandwidth anyhow.

Agree that this happens and is wide spread although this practise tends to be in decline thanks to the advent of "elastic bandwidth" and scale out architectures. i.e. amazon, google etc. As they borg an ever larger slice of the market the end user benefits by higher max speeds. The limits move to peering exchanges, last mile etc.

So, it's finally become available here - FTTN unfortunalety, but we're about to see what it can do. My Boss's Son moved in around the corner just before Christmas and had it connected then as ADSL wasnt available.

He's opted for a base 25MBPS connection and he sees 10 to 12 in the evenings which he is happy with, and it's about what I get during the day on my ADSL 2+ connection now.

The bundle I've gone for doubles my current data to 1000 gig, which is good as most months we burn very close to the 500 we have now. It came with the 'speed boost' option - up to 100MBPS. I questioned them about if this works on FTTN a and they assure me it does, but time will tell. Hopefully I can get 20 or so. . It is about the same price as what I'm paying now. The catch is that phone calls are now 'pay as you go' but as we haven't used the land line for years, so that's not a drama.

So, all that is left is for the connection to be made - which is next Friday....

I'll report back on what I end with. Wish me luck (I think I'll need it)!!!

I heard the other day, that they bought the Optus fibre network and have decided not to use it. Yet they haven't sold it on. Not much use to me anyway. I'll be one of the last to hook up by the looks of things.

They sent me an email just before Christmas to tell me they were installing it the day before Christmas ( had not contacted them for installation ) I rang & cancelled it , I told them I did not want to be without phone & internet over Christmas ( I have had problems with Telstra in this regard) Since I cancelled I think Aust Post delivery is faster. It is now slower than a racing snail. On my tablets when I want to read my emails it takes 20 minutes for them to appear. Desk top is a bit faster around 10 minutes .

Originally Posted by 1950landy

They sent me an email just before Christmas to tell me they were installing it the day before Christmas ( had not contacted them for installation ) I rang & cancelled it , I told them I did not want to be without phone & internet over Christmas ( I have had problems with Telstra in this regard) Since I cancelled I think Aust Post delivery is faster. It is now slower than a racing snail. On my tablets when I want to read my emails it takes 20 minutes for them to appear. Desk top is a bit faster around 10 minutes .

That's one of my biggest worries - that I'll end up without Internet for an undetermined period of time... I've always got the phone as a backup but work gets a bit ****ty when I go over 10 gig a month on it...

Originally Posted by Homestar

That's one of my biggest worries - that I'll end up without Internet for an undetermined period of time... I've always got the phone as a backup but work gets a bit ****ty when I go over 10 gig a month on it...

Amusing, as home internet should not technically be expected to be used by an employee for business (it's your personal connection). If your business is expecting you to use your own data they should be paying for it.

Oh, no - I meant for myself.

Work can go suck it, when I work from home I use the hotspot on the phone.

I use theirs, they never use mine... . Only emails and stuff for work so the hotspot doesn't use much data. Now when I'm using it to watch YouTube or Netfix, that's a different story...