Thread: Got NBN at work what a joke

Originally Posted by frantic

Wow , thanks for that!
We are lucky that we have fibre to the home and with the speed upgrade it is excellent!!!!! There are up to 7 people using the net in my house at any one time and e virtually never get lagg or other issues compared to broadband.
Seeing others with the crappy FTTN and I am still disgusted that a supposed tech conscious pm would let this go ahead! Throw in the future cost of redoing the 32% plus in the future and it's another rhetoric over fact stuff up.

While I agree that the whole system has been watered down, we have FTTN and have excellent speeds. 3 or 4 heavy users all streaming or gaming at once without issue or interruption. We have paid for 100/40 and get very close together that. I do wish though that they'd kept with the original concept of FTTH on all connections though.

Originally Posted by Homestar

While I agree that the whole system has been watered down, we have FTTN and have excellent speeds. 3 or 4 heavy users all streaming or gaming at once without issue or interruption. We have paid for 100/40 and get very close together that. I do wish though that they'd kept with the original concept of FTTH on all connections though.

I wish people would stop saying this! It was never the plan to have everyone on FTTH. It was always the intention to have about 4% on wireless with speed limited to less than 50Mbps and data limits to prevent congestion, and about 3% on satellite with speed limited to 25Mbps with data quantities limited to less than 50GB/month and latency in excess of 500ms.

While ultimately delivering some form of internet availability to everyone (except the "too hard" cases) the NBN represents a dramatic widening of the gap between services available to urban and rural people, with not a whisper of any plan to do anything about it in the future. It delivers much better services to those who already had, or would soon get good services, with a few crusts thrown to those who most need good communications.

Sorry about the rant!

Originally Posted by Homestar

While I agree that the whole system has been watered down, we have FTTN and have excellent speeds. 3 or 4 heavy users all streaming or gaming at once without issue or interruption. We have paid for 100/40 and get very close together that. I do wish though that they'd kept with the original concept of FTTH on all connections though.

My work has fibre to the main building and upgraded internal connections and we have some 600 laptops connected and it works great. That was totally impossible before we got fibre. Fibre is the way to go.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I wish people would stop saying this! It was never the plan to have everyone on FTTH. It was always the intention to have about 4% on wireless with speed limited to less than 50Mbps and data limits to prevent congestion, and about 3% on satellite with speed limited to 25Mbps with data quantities limited to less than 50GB/month and latency in excess of 500ms.

While ultimately delivering some form of internet availability to everyone (except the "too hard" cases) the NBN represents a dramatic widening of the gap between services available to urban and rural people, with not a whisper of any plan to do anything about it in the future. It delivers much better services to those who already had, or would soon get good services, with a few crusts thrown to those who most need good communications.

Sorry about the rant!

Same problem of distance as mobile phone services.
Mind you, if the property has a fixed phone line then fibre to the property is possible. The individual cost could be astronomical in some cases, which is why we have a shared cost system so the profitable majority subsidise the isolated connection cost.
After all, the actual physical cost of connecting most urban consumers with fibre is only a fraction - as little as 10 percent in some cases - of the charged cost, according to my mate who does it for a living.
Putting nodes in is a waste of money - it's better to just lay fibre to the premises. The entire Australian copper phone network should be ripped out and replaced with fibre.
Just for once, could this country be a bit forward-thinking, instead of looking backwards?

Some facts, I guess.

How The Promise Of The NBN Fell Short For So Many Australians

From the horses mouth, so to speak.

All your NBN questions answered (by the NBN)

All your NBN questions answered (by the NBN) - Download This Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Very interesting what the say at the beginning. Most people don't want the speed.

Originally Posted by bob10

Some facts, I guess.

How The Promise Of The NBN Fell Short For So Many Australians

Which also conveniently ignores everyone who lives outside urban areas and those in villages and towns with less than about 1000 premises.
In other words, most rural Australians.

NBN gigabit internet speed trials slammed as a 'smokescreen'