Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[Ducatiboy stu]

The plan was...back in the day... that everyone connected to the NBN platform and you just picked an ISP to do account.

Essentially it was a flat rate platform of infrastructure that even the big guys would use....

That was the plan.....but then along came the LNP.....

 

[wynnum1]

The plan was...back in the day... that everyone connected to the NBN platform and you just picked an ISP to do account.

Essentially it was a flat rate platform of infrastructure that even the big guys would use....

That was the plan.....but then along came the LNP.....

Would not blame the LNP totally this is Kevin Rudd's **** up or is it because some one is making big money if you look at the ALP plans was never going to work if you get your free to air channels through the pay TV and do not have an antenna as NBN purchased all of these cables and going to use ,free to air television is having problems pixilation.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

How is it K Rudds **** up

What they had planned was actually rather sound.

Optus made a fortune by selling the out of date HFC network to NBN - Fantastic business decision by the LNP

Telstra made a froutune by selling the ( a half fucked ) copper wire network to NBN - Another fantastic business decision by LNP

We could have had a fantastic all fiber network in the country, but because the LNP didnt think of it first, they shit canned it and now we have what is not even a clusterfuck of a system now..its beyond that

 

[Rocker1986]

What sort of NBN are you getting in your area? We got FTTN a while back and it was the most painless internet changeover I have ever experienced. We were with Telstra for ADSL and they automatically sent us out an NBN ready modem. It was already configured and after a certain date we just had to plug it in to initiate the changeover to NBN. We put it off as my wife works from home and we were trying to figure out when to do it so that any extended disruption didn't cause her problems. Telstra were actually ringing us to ask why we hadn't done it. anyway, when we eventually did it, was very smooth changeover, the new modem kept working on ADSL, we received a message about when the service would changeover to NBN, service disrupted for less than an hour, the tech came and took a photo of our medem as proof it was working on NBN and away we go.

No choice for us. If you don't change over the copper phone system eventually gets turned off and we would have nothing.

I think it's fttn but I'll have to check it.

 

[homebrewnewb]

any idea where the node is? that might give you an idea what you're in for performance wise.

 

[earle]

If it's FTTN you're looking for one of these nearby. Our's is pretty close by - just opposite the end of our small culd

esac.

 

[homebrewnewb]

little known fact, if you open it up, there's a gerbil on a wheel connected to a tin can with a single sliver fiber running back to the POI.

 

[Rocker1986]

It doesn't say on the email I got, but I haven't seen any of those green boxes yet. Then again I haven't been looking for them either.

 

[Grott]

Here in Adelaide southerners region it can be said “there everywhere there everywhere..........”

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

If you have FTTN/HFC you just end up with a normal phone socket for your service

For fiber to the home/fixed wireless they come and install an actual box inside your house

Oh...and there wont be much fiber to the home now, the LNP made NBN buy a gazzillion kilometers of copper cable - Another brilliant LNP business decision

 

[homebrewnewb]

15 000 kilometers i heard a gazzillion is a slight hyperbole.
at least you can smelt and resell it...

 

[wynnum1]

They had to buy the other networks because if they did not who was going to connect to the NBN and down grade when they found how shit it is and the cost the ones building the NBN are making a fortune and the more they advertise the less the media will criticize.

 

[kaiserben]

because the LNP didnt think of it first, they shit canned it

I don't reckon it's the fact they didn't think of it first, but more their ideological hatred of State-owned/built/operated infrastructure.

 

[homebrewnewb]

...like Snowy Hydro and ... energy policy? No one's seeing a pattern here?
Public health and education are on a damn knife edge, also.

 

[wynnum1]

Jul 20, 1998 - Enron is planning to build a national fiber-optic network to transmit voice and data traffic .

 

[homebrewnewb]

Facebook and Microshaft laid and recently connected a fiber link from North America to Western Europe (160 TB/s if you're interested) just to sling ads and azure to people. Infrastructure is easy, until it gets politicized then it's fucked.

 

[Black Devil Dog]

If you have FTTN/HFC you just end up with a normal phone socket for your service

For fiber to the home/fixed wireless they come and install an actual box inside your house

Oh...and there wont be much fiber to the home now, the LNP made NBN buy a gazzillion kilometers of copper cable - Another brilliant LNP business decision

I'm quite glad that my hard earned tax dollars aren't being wasted on fibre to the house, just so people can play games, download movies, porn etc faster.

Fibre to businesses, hospitals, emergency services,etc yep, that makes sense.

 

[wynnum1]

If it's FTTN you're looking for one of these nearby. Our's is pretty close by - just opposite the end of our small culd

esac.

Also doubles as a pissoir .

 

[Airgead]

Starlink folks... Starlink.

10000 low earth orbit cubesats in a mesh network with the stated goal of making gigabit speed internet (25ms latency apparently which is as good as most terrestrial services) ubiquitous around the world.

Elon Musk is behind it and so far, what Elon dreams, Elon gets.

First satellites planned to go up 2018. The Nbn rollout in my area isn't planned before 2019....

 

[wynnum1]

shut down 2G mobile networks, to reuse airwaves for newer 4G services