<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 August 2010 17:45, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@internode.com.au">newton@internode.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im">What do the South Koreans do online that's different to us? Basically</div>
<div>nothing. They use web, they use peer-to-peer apps, they transact</div><div>commerce; All at 100 Mbps.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh they use the Internet VERY differently. Our offices used to be in a building with a 24/7 Korean book store and Internet cafe. It was very instructive, eg:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMn3_bXrJU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMn3_bXrJU</a></div><div><br></div><div>That is what we can look forward to when "ping times" become as much a part of the political debate as asylum seekers and pink batts scandals. Mind you, it would be more enjoyable than watching football so maybe that is +1 for the NBN.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>much the same way that we behave now. Going from no internet access</div>
<div>to ubiquitous internet access is a transformative step; Going from </div><div>dialup to broadband is also transformative, but perhaps less so.</div><div>But going from broadband to faster broadband? Not so much. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bang on. </div><div><br></div><div>The government ads for the NBN show as much. 110 inch virtual blackboards with the space shuttle on them in 3D zooming around - WTH! </div><div><br>
</div><div>My inner nerd wants fibre (and 1gbps point to point full duplex for $43bln dammit) - but the $ are just too much and there are too many other things more pressing in Australia that should deserve the national attention and $ first. </div>
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