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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">wildly variable is what I hear<br>
somewhere between 200:1 and 2000:1 are the numbers being thrown
around on whirlpool so take that with as big a grain of salt as
you desire.<br>
I believe optus have been attempting to reduce it somewhat by
chopping up segments and have been throwing some more bandwidth at
it with bonding (well they say bonding improves bandwidth for the
segment, I'm not too sure how that works but my understanding of
the fundamentals of HFC aren't that great).<br>
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My home was in the "under construction" band for FTTP, so I still
hold some vague hope even though I am in a HFC area.<br>
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Why oh why could he not have done what politicians are supposed to
do, blame the last guy for doing a crap job, throw a few
sweeteners in then get on with doing the exact same damn thing?<br>
Prioritise areas with no broadband, perhaps drop a few nodes in
places that really sucked as an interim measure, drop nodes in
regional towns to take some load off the wireless etc.<br>
"stop the waste" and so on and so forth, then get on with the job
of rolling out an asset, not polishing the copper for a third
time.<br>
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I am so over all this petty political point scoring. <br>
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On 12/12/13 19:39, Nick Gale wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">so what would be the contention ratio on cable? how
much is that 1Gbps divided by for most of the rollout in
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<div><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">DOCSIS 3.1 is
capable of 1Gbps uploads (shared).<br>
While the costs to upgrade HFC to 3.1 is unknown,
it's reasonable to assume it is less than FTTN
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<pre>I think you're right .. FTTN is just not good enough.
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<pre>Plus, if you're in an HFC (Foxtel/Optus Pay TV) area, you get nothing
beyond what is available today, not even FTTN:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/12/12/nbn-co-abandons-fttn-rollout-hfc-areas/" target="_blank">http://delimiter.com.au/2013/12/12/nbn-co-abandons-fttn-rollout-hfc-areas/</a>
Shed a tear for ubiquitous fast upload speeds.
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