[AusNOG] NBN Action (potentially semi-political post)

[Ross Wheeler]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Paul Wilkins wrote:

> There is bing, which with a bit of fiddling can be made to give you 
> ballpark per hop bandwidth estimates.

Not sure how that'll actually help.
Take the specific nbnfw example I referenced.

x.x.x.150 (IP address of customer gateway)
x.x.x.149 (IP address of "next hop")

Looks like one hop, but it's actually

* Ethernet cable router to nbn indoor unit
* Ethernet cable nbn indoor unit to nbn outdoor unit
* 3.4GHz link to local nbn tower
* RF link nbn tower "OTH" to nbn tower "E"
* RF link nbn tower "E" to nbn tower "TT"
* RF link nbn tower "TT" to nbn tower "G"
* RF link nbn tower "G" to nbn tower "C"
* Fibre optic link nbn tower "C" to POI "W"
* horrible composite links from POI "W" to carrier LNS

so that "first hop" includes a whole lump of stuff which can't readily be 
identified by owner/operator.

R.