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

[Sam Silvester]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Mark Newton <newton at internode.com.au> wrote:
>
> PS: I reckon "12 Mbps doesn't cut it today for the average household/farm" is
> total bullshit.  And I reckon there are at least a hundred people on this list
> with several years of archived MRTG graphs which tell them I'm right.
>
> Just sayin'.

It's fine for web browsing / facebook / Youtube etc (mind you, Youtube
vids are getting higher and higher resolution - not sure if everybody
is aware but Youtube support 4K resolution now...not that I have
anything to play it back on in that resolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0m1XmvBey8)

Feels much less roomy if I've got an IPTV set top box and three
computers in the house, of which usually one is playing iView or one
of the other catch up TV services. At that point 12Mbits is much more
"entry level".

Not saying mine sits flat at 12Mbits, but it sure peaks way over that
from time to time. I don't see that changing into the future (in fact,
I can certainly see two IPTV set top boxes in the near future).

If the Govt is going to spend _any_ billions of dollars, be it 7 or
something higher, I really don't want to be doing that to have a
"guaranteed" speed that's _less_ that what I'm getting now, how short
sighted is that?