Why the NBN needs to go the full way

Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by NamTaf on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:35AM (#6339166)

My DSL, at 6km from the CBD of a city of >2 million, syncs at about 3400kbps down and 700kbps up. I struggle to stream 720p video unless it's compressed to oblivion. Purchasing games on Steam is an overnight (plus potentially during work the following day) affair to actually get the content. Grabbing trial software (stats packages and VMs are two that I've encountered so far) to do online study are hours of waiting.

60-70KB/sec upload means that producing video content is out of the question. It means that dropbox-style syncing of content I produce on my mobile device to the could is not possible. Services like crashplan are a far-away dream.

There's many, many things that are not possible even with our current DSL network, even for people who are living in the highly developed parts of this country. Never mind those who are out in rural areas and for whom DSL is even more crippled.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by Wingman4l7 on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:37AM (#6339174)

Yeah, for those not in the know -- unless you're just a couple of km away from your local telephone exchange, you can kiss goodbye any hope of 21st century sync speeds. It's amazing how quickly the speeds drop off.

If you want to get an idea of this, just look at the "DSLAM maps" for a major Australian ISP: http://www.tpg.com.au/maps/

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