Why the NBN needs to go the full way

Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by damian2000 on Friday September 06, 2013 @12:53AM (#6338735)

Everyone in tech I know wants it, but the problem is also the speed of rollout - it would be several years on their current schedule before most people would get it. Probably a moot point too, given the likely outcome of the election.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by Wingman4l7 on Friday September 06, 2013 @12:56AM (#6338740)

That's what's doubly ridiculous -- if you didn't do fiber on the last leg (to the residence) then it will be obsolete before it's even finished being built!

Besides, the asbestos in the pits* would have to have been cleaned up some time anyway.

* (was NOT unforseen, my mistake)

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by sien on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:07AM (#6338774)

Asbestos problems were mentioned in 2011 in the Senate:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-rais...

Beyond that anyone who had looked at plans from the 1940s to 1970s would have known it was there:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-know...

Either the NBN people were completely incompetent, which is highly unlikely, or the Asbestos problem was raised much earlier internally, probably as soon as people became serious about the project.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by cam_l on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:19AM (#6338817)

much earlier..

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abb...

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by schappim on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:16AM (#6338809)

Yeah I live on the North Shore in Sydney and there are currently "no plans" for the NBN in my area.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by shirro on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:28AM (#6338852)

I was a couple of years away here but I was really looking forward to the NBN. Telstra has the only ADSL ports in town and pricing for what by world standards is a reasonably shit service is crazy.

If I have to munge a lot of data I just do it on a VPS and shuffle data back and forth to different cloud storage. I try and avoid downloading anything I might have to send back. I created a pipeline to process some video for work from the home/office it was way too painful on ADSL.

I can't imagine what it is like if you are a content producer. Just syncing my mobile camera images when I get home takes forever. And if my wife and I try to do Coursera and both kids wanted to watch ABC iView on their iPads everything just stops. With everything moving to HD and pretty much all services (including education) moving online my kids future is looking bleak unless something radical happens.

We have substandard services for lots of things in rural areas including health and education but being withheld a quality Internet service by Telstra/Murdoch/Abbott might be the last straw for us.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by 40 on Friday September 06, 2013 @02:36AM (#6339019)

I just visited http://www.nbnco.com.au/when-do-i-get-it/rollout-map.html and saw that construction will start in one year. :)

I have absolutely no problems paying 2K or 5K for FTTH.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by adamconroy on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:56AM (#6338909)

Yes but on the north shore you can already get 100mb cable internet.

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