Fibre to the Home very fast broadband proposal

[Jovial Monk]

Someone who knows this stuff approves:

http://newmatilda.com/2009/04/07/austra ... thing-good

[Hebe]

We've also got to ask - do we really need super fast broadband?

Yes we do. Business needs it for a start. And if it's a service that people want, it has a built-in market. Speeds in Tasmania are terrible, even with ADSL2, and I think regional Australia is just as bad.

[Jovial Monk]

Re the spending on schools, the actual construction of whatever is irrelevant, it is the quick starting of work that is important. Those that put their applications in first get the money first. This is about fighting recession, not social justice.

Yes, optical fibre is as fast as it gets--the speed of light. Likely it will be 1G not 100mps, definitely top of the line! Wireless has many many problems--I use it at home, yuck!

Superfast broadband is great, more people can work from home, saving lots of carbon emissions. Hospitals could have an expert on some sort of surgery anywhere in the world practically in the theater--hugely more bandwidth means MUCH higher resolution pictures/video. It also means you could download eight movies in 10-15 minutes. Kev could have high quality/high speed video conferences with PM Brown, Pres Obama, saving us LOTS of money on travel.

See the earlier post re what this means for media companies: this is going to revolutionise a lot of things!

[Jovial Monk]

Re selling the company, would be nice to keep it in govt hands but down the track another Rodent appears and flogs the company, say sells it holus bolus to Telstra, to raise money for pork barreling. Better to sell it in a sensible, controlled fashion.

Anyway, that decision is like 15 years away, by then govt ownership of vital monopolies will be back in favor.

[Jovial Monk]

If Telstra suffers because of this, good!

Bastards stopped spending on the network. It is a joke! My office is 1Km from the exchange yet my shop phone number was on pair gain! At home I am like 2Km from the exchange but I cannot get the most meagre ADSL--pair bloody gain! Optus wireless broadband gives me a tiny tad better than dialup broadband at home--for $30/month! Wireless is not the way to go!

[Jovial Monk]

Hebe, apparently work will begin in Tassie very soon on building the FTTH network and work will also be beginning on the backbone: Rudd is not letting much grass grow under his feet (thx wet gurl.)

[Jovial Monk]

The Sheeple bleated (wrongly):

So badly was it handled in fact that the government have decided to throw $20 plus billion at it and do it themselves.

Where is the money coming from? Who knows but I hope our grandkids enjoy the cables laid all over the country which will be redundant about the time they have finished laying them.

This really, really sucks.

And that just proves this really is a good decision! Note that the liar and idiot did NOT offer any alternative.

Wireless has too many problems--and electromagnetic fields like radio & TV transmissions, mobile phone use & the bloody ubiquitous antenna, microwave ovens, radar etc will be shown to cause cancer, mobile phone use already implicated.

The copper network is crap due to longterm neglect of the physical network. Optical fiber works at the speed of light and so won't be made obsolete anytime soon: various compression algorithms will be developed to increase the carrying capacity of the optic fiber. I know whereof i speak!

About a year after the first macintosh was rolled out we (my business partner and I) bought one. Of course it fell to me to transfer data from our TRS 80 to the Mac. Had to buy a 1240bps RS232 (or whatever, computer history now!) card for the TRS80 and o h m y g o d s o s l o w l y transfer data between the two computers. Agonising! Now we have ADSL2!

So the optic fibre will still be in use in a couple of decades.

[Jovial Monk]

Hahahahaha

Dickheads like Minchin & Turdbull "Will Aussies take up the new broadband network?"

Of course they bloody will! Footy brought to their TV in incredibly crisp images, telephone, fax, internet all through that optical fiber, video 'phone calls' with family or business sub-offices etc. As always, Aussies will eagerly adopt this wonderful new technology when it is rolled out. "No computer user will need more than 640Kbyte of RAM' said Bill Gates. So, HM RAM you got? One or two or more GByte, right?

[Jubial Priest]

It will be a redundant piece of crap by the time that it is operational.

Mainly because wireless infrastructure is where all the leading technology is headed. It is far easier to up grade a single piece of equipment that feeds thousands rather than 1000 individual pieces of equipment.

You don't have a fucking clue about anything Monk, let alone technology and where it is heading

[skippy]

I. m not all that impressed, I live 20 kms from the main city of the far north coast of NSW and I still wont get it, the wankers say oh have a free satt dish, sounds good untill you have to pay 3 times more than those in the city for your broadband.
I want a gaurantee that people that are stuck with sattalite are charged no more than those on fibre.