[AusNOG] Complexity is not an excuse for an industry-wide cop-out (was Re: Conroy quit.)

[Nick Stallman]

I thought most consumers bought the cheapest internet possible then just 
complain loudly when their 4 Apple TV's can't stream at the same time at 4k.


On 17/09/16 14:41, Chris Brown wrote:
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> On 17 September 2016 at 10:45, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org 
> <mailto:newton at atdot.dotat.org>> wrote:
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>     The practical effect of the NBN has been (and will continue to be)
>     to mostly destroy innovation with respect to speed.
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> Do people really care about speed in terms of numbers? I'd say they 
> care about functionality. I want my Netflix to start instantly and in 
> HD - every time. I don't really care how or why - thats why I pay the 
> ISP.  People realise that if they want 4 of their AppleTV's to do that 
> at the same time they need to pay a little more.
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> I only run a speedtest when things aren't doing what i want at that 
> point in time and I don't really care if SpeedTest shows me 103Mbit/s 
> from Alaska if at the same time I'm staring at iTunes telling me my 
> movie will start playing in 43 hours. That means designing your 
> networks to support this traffic from the customer  all the way to the 
> content, including doing what's needed to move that content closer and 
> making sure it works properly all the time (rapid dns, etc)
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> Chris.
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