[AusNOG] Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal]

[Tom Sykes]

David Connors writes.....
> Another thing lost on the one-eyed-NBN-at-any-cost nerds arguing in this 
> debate is that there are entire sectors of the population who don't give 
> a toss about quality of service on the Internet- loading a web page is 
> FINE for a lot of people who just want to tool around on Facebook or whatever



If you freeze the application capability at a point in time (e.g. Text Webpages) then we would never have required DSL.

If you are building this network for "Facebook", then I mostly agree, you probably won't see much difference between your Internode 25M service and a Fibre 25M Service. However, making the "internet" faster is clearly not the only goal here. 

There are clearly other applications (and more to emerge) which either (a) simply cannot be provided using current infrastructure, or (b) may work, but suffer from the lack of determinism in the copper loop and can't be offered on a consistent basis.