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Aussie National Broadband Network Will Be Gigabit
schmidty-au writes "NBN Co, the Australian Government company established to build Australia's national fibre-optic broadband network, announced today that, instead of the previously announced 100 Mbps network, it will provide 1 Gbps, within the existing AU$43 billion budget. Meanwhile, the Australian opposition, which has announced that it will scrap the network if it wins the 21 August election, and instead provide incentives to the private sector to improve the existing copper network, and to install wireless broadband (with promised peak speeds of 12 Mbps), does not understand or believe that this would be possible. The man who wants to be Australia's next Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said today 'This idea that "hey presto" we are suddenly going to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet I find utterly implausible.'"
I am very happy, there are now two parties that are talking sense in OZ, and the leader of Labour is not to bad either, I can but hope we move forward at the next election... in the meantime, it is fun and commendable to join the cheefrul political bashing of Abbot: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/bible-bashing-the-homeless-abbott-style-20100215-o2tj.html http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/no-more-dole-tony-abbott-warns-the-under-30s/story-e6frfmd9-1225856181945 http://www.samesame.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=14437 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSPc5UTcwHQ What an embarrasing tool!
Waiting for the other shoe to...
Tony is a luddite, that's the correct term for people of his nature.
That he's pretty much a religious nutcase and general embarrassment to the country is a well known fact but every political party *must* have a leader.
Unfortunately Stephen Conroy is also a religious freak. Not to mention a complete WHORE for votes.
Yes, that's right, I said it -> Stephen Conroy is a complete whore for votes.
That's where The Great Internet Censorship Program comes from - The Party sold their political soul to a pack of self-righteous religious extremists who believe that "Teh Innnertubes R EVIL". LITERALLY promised to FORCE the censorship regime on this country in return for a steaming pile of religious freak votes.
A vote for Labour and Stephen Conroy is a vote for a Theocracy, a vote for Terrorism.
If that's the kind of country you want go and live in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel they're all for Theocracy there, you'll be welcomed with open arms.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
But all those people with fibre into their homes are going to try to distribute their data around the house with wifi anyway, and then you still have bandwidth (channel space) issues. Its more efficient to use the available spectrum for a protocol which can share channel space between adjacent buildings, and for me that means using a cellular network.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Great, these gigabit links will be real handy! Especially with Australia having about 8 terabits of cabled overseas bandwidth.
Lets see, 8000 gigabits divided by 10000000 households with just 1% (100000) trying to have all you can eat = 80 megabits per household with nothing left over for the other 99%.
We only need 92 terabits more overseas connection bandwidth to meet that insatiable 1% (the ones downloading torrents 24 hours a day).
Woohoo go gigabit.
Contention ratio is a bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia#International
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1436043.html (post by Duideka)
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/6C0F2180158809B9CA2573D20011048E?opendocument