[AusNOG] Katter backs Coalition - Windsor backs Gillard

[Jason Lingohr]

On 7/09/2010 5:39 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
>
> Cry me a river. You're still getting better than most of the broadband
> services
> I've used in the USA.

Oopsie... forgot we lived in Australia :P  In this context, comparison
to somewhere else is stupid.  And, see my other post re POP and IT.


>
> My experience is that regional people care A LOT to get broadband, it 
> really changes their lives.  Simple things, like being able to stay in
> touch
> with the kids who have moved to the City via VoIP and videochat

Hah.  Ok, then I'm basing it on the fact that the ones I know prefer the
outdoors, hate computers, hate the phone, blah blah.  They'd like to use
the fancy stuff you mention, but "it's all just too hard", "it crashes
all the time", ad finem.  You must know some progressive ones.

>
> But they also don't care how fast it is.  Again, in my experience.

Ok, so give them satellite, and don't spend $43bil giving them something
that is insanely overkill.

>
>   - mark
>     [ who, for the record, is on a Telstra 8 Mbps ADSL1 port with
> congested
>       backhaul, in a RIM -- But, like, whatever. ]
>
>

That must hurt, given your employer :P


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