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But do you like your broadband? /s

sundvor 9y ago
That was a low blow ;) With cable, my downloads are good enough, but the issue of 100x slower uploads does sting. We've got FTTC in final phases now with the pit work being done just outside, however I'm not excited about it as there's still that last bit of crap copper. The whole handling / political point scoring of the NBN is sad and I'm trying not to think about it.
- Filligree 9y ago
  FTTC can work quite well. I've got that here in Dublin, getting 400/40 speeds. If Australian internet turns out to still suck, them I don't think it'll be because of the technology. :)
  - alex_hitchins 9y ago
    May I enquire who your provider is? I believe here in England FTTC is maxed at 80mbps. I've very much like that to be wrong.
    - Filligree 9y ago
      It's UPC. I've got a business connection, technically, but it's not excessively expensive and the SLA is worth it.
  - sundvor 9y ago
    Wow, that's pretty awesome. Fingers crossed it will be good here too, although none of the nbn ISPs offer anything faster than "up to" 100/20.
- alex_hitchins 9y ago
  I apologise, it was below the belt. Given you are in Australia I knew you could take it ;) I only know the situation through Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame discussing how _ridiculous_ your setup is over there. Genuinely made me appreciate BT! I have FTTC here in England, I get 70/15 more often than not. It's only a wee bit of copper but I'm with you. Something very pleasing with a glass rod shining internet in to your home isn't there.
  - sundvor 9y ago
    Hehe, yeah. At least I'm not getting FTTN.. I'm very, very strongly of the belief that providing fibre internet everywhere and to everyone would be a great benefit to our country, especially long term. Labor came up with a solution, and of course the opposition can't let us have good things so they sought to destroy it when taking power. Sure most might be just Netflix, but then with all that capacity you also get all those who can work remotely with no restrictions, kids/adult education, remote health, the list just goes on and on. Fibre is the infrastructure needed for a digital future. Instead for political piss fighting reasons we're getting a much watered down solution at not that much reduced price. I know heaps of people in NBN, and follow the news: There's been so much waste in generating new specs, acquiring HFC that's now not being used, buying copper network and what not. F* politics. The guys have been doing the curb pits in our area (mainly houses/town houses) for weeks now, coming back quite a few times to the same ones and instead of making the pits I can't help but wonder what the time difference would be to go into each premise. I'm convinced that in a decade or two, all the FTTN plans will be upgraded to FTTC or FTTP anyway. Which will blow costs out way past the original.

That was a low blow ;) With cable, my downloads are good enough, but the issue of 100x slower uploads does sting. We've got FTTC in final phases now with the pit work being done just outside, however I'm not excited about it as there's still that last bit of crap copper. The whole handling / political point scoring of the NBN is sad and I'm trying not to think about it.

Filligree 9y ago
FTTC can work quite well. I've got that here in Dublin, getting 400/40 speeds. If Australian internet turns out to still suck, them I don't think it'll be because of the technology. :)
- alex_hitchins 9y ago
  May I enquire who your provider is? I believe here in England FTTC is maxed at 80mbps. I've very much like that to be wrong.
  - Filligree 9y ago
    It's UPC. I've got a business connection, technically, but it's not excessively expensive and the SLA is worth it.
- sundvor 9y ago
  Wow, that's pretty awesome. Fingers crossed it will be good here too, although none of the nbn ISPs offer anything faster than "up to" 100/20.
alex_hitchins 9y ago
I apologise, it was below the belt. Given you are in Australia I knew you could take it ;) I only know the situation through Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame discussing how _ridiculous_ your setup is over there. Genuinely made me appreciate BT! I have FTTC here in England, I get 70/15 more often than not. It's only a wee bit of copper but I'm with you. Something very pleasing with a glass rod shining internet in to your home isn't there.
- sundvor 9y ago
  Hehe, yeah. At least I'm not getting FTTN.. I'm very, very strongly of the belief that providing fibre internet everywhere and to everyone would be a great benefit to our country, especially long term. Labor came up with a solution, and of course the opposition can't let us have good things so they sought to destroy it when taking power. Sure most might be just Netflix, but then with all that capacity you also get all those who can work remotely with no restrictions, kids/adult education, remote health, the list just goes on and on. Fibre is the infrastructure needed for a digital future. Instead for political piss fighting reasons we're getting a much watered down solution at not that much reduced price. I know heaps of people in NBN, and follow the news: There's been so much waste in generating new specs, acquiring HFC that's now not being used, buying copper network and what not. F* politics. The guys have been doing the curb pits in our area (mainly houses/town houses) for weeks now, coming back quite a few times to the same ones and instead of making the pits I can't help but wonder what the time difference would be to go into each premise. I'm convinced that in a decade or two, all the FTTN plans will be upgraded to FTTC or FTTP anyway. Which will blow costs out way past the original.