[AusNOG] Anyone know about this? High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers

[paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au]

Of course you are correct Mark, nobody would argue that, none of this should be necessary, but it is, and it’s people like this who highlight that fact often.
 
The problem is that people, sometimes like this guy in QLD, sometimes keen smaller comms providers who want to help the customers get better than wet string speed to their business, spend lots of time and money to come up with innovative solutions to make stuff work, to get a solution to a problem which is better than the big guys are willing to do or care about, or even just “A” solution. Unfortunately all that we see now is that these smaller guys, and yes we are one of them, get subjected to forced wholesale pricing because the little guy has invested their own money, blood sweat and tears into building stuff to help people, no matter how much money they make or lose, and who are we to make something in competition to NBN, how dare we go out on a limb and do something at our cost and risk and try and make some money out of it.
 
So there will always be stories like this, even when NBN is finished by 2020 apparently, Australia is full of people who will go the extra mile when the big guys won’t and do that bit extra to help a mate out, it’s what makes Australia what it is today.
 
Paul
 
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton
Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2017 4:33 PM
To: Narelle
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone know about this? High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers
 
This is the third instance in a few weeks that I’ve seen the media reporting on groups or individuals incurring significant hassle and personal expense to compensate for the failure of the NBN to deliver an acceptable service.
 
The first was that guy on ABC 7.30 who gets his broadband access over WiFi tethering by winching a mobile phone in a zip-loc bag into the top of a tree outside his house.  The second was that silly fairfax thing about the guy saying you could get faster-than-NBN services by bonding multiple NBN services (duh).
 
None of this should be necessary. The fact that there are news articles about it is an indictment of comprehensive dismal failure.
 
  - mark
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20170124/eae7a5e2/attachment.html>