[AusNOG] NBN: "i want a pony! but can I afford it"

[Jason Lingohr]

 Good for you.  At least you can get it -- I can't, and I'm considered
zone 1.


On 17/08/2010 1:20 AM, Andrew Oskam wrote:
> I must be among the few of those who are compassionate. I have 17meg
> down 2meg up. I agree regional > metro.
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> Andrew Oskam
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> On 14/08/2010, at 6:17 PM, Daniel Mullins <daniel at xceedit.com.au
> <mailto:daniel at xceedit.com.au>> wrote:
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>> It seems that the people who don’t care are already on awesome
>> connections.  20mb down and 2.5 up, yeah i would pay $300 a month for
>> that for my personal use, but i cant buy it because im too far from
>> the exchange.  I get 4mb/0.8mb.  Wireless is not the answer (it also
>> seems no  one is comparing apples with apples either.  12mb wireless
>> would be equivalent to 6mb fibre as the 12mb is shared both ways,
>> where the fibre is sync.  They should be spruiking the fibre
>> connection as 200mb or 2gb connections), as wireless is contended and
>> also prone to interference.  The main problem I see with the NBN is
>> they should be rolling it out regional first, then metro.  Start with
>> the people who have the crappy connections, they are more likely to
>> take the service up.  The people who are in metro areas don’t care
>> because they have fibre or are close to the exchange and get high
>> speed adsl.
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>> My 2c
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>> Regards,
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>> Daniel Mullins
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