[AusNOG] NBN again

[Mark Andrews]

In message <547FDF4E.7060303 at mytelecom.com.au>, Tim Sheahan writes:
> 
> I was interested in Simon Hackett's blog/talk earlier in the year, where 
> he mentioned that they can still do interesting things on a shared 
> medium such as HFC, as long as they deploy more fiber to feed smaller 
> segments.
> 
> http://simonhackett.com/2014/09/06/rebooting-the-nbn/
> 
> He acknowledged fiber would be best, then went on to point out that the 
> pollies aren't paying for fiber any more, which I think is a fair if 
> regrettable point.
> 
> I'd be happy enough for NBN to drop their service onto the co-ax into my 
> lounge room, if I had to share it with a limited number of houses for a 
> clear step up in performance, compared with the ADSL or Telstra HFC 
> that's available where I live. Now, lets just see it happen.
> 
> No rush either, tomorrow or next week would be soon enough.
> 
>   - Tim

Provided they provide decent DOCIS modems.  My current one has 1.8 seconds
of buffer bloat with a single TCP upload stream going.

Mark
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