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Dude really thought he could host his website on Australian internet?
by sydthrowaway 5y ago
Dude really thought he could host his website on Australian internet?
- girvo 5y agoI'm still so sad about our new "gigabit" NBN stuff... 1000Mbps downlink. 50Mbps uplink. Just horrible. For $130 AUD a month, no less. Sigh.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoI'm still salty, to put it very mildly, at the Coalition for nixing the FTTP plan. My parents got FTTP, which they barely use at a trickle. I'm still on my wireless internet plan because it's no worse than whatever excuse for an upgrade is available at my place thanks to downgraded NBN plan of the copper and coal party.
- girvo 5y agoSalty is such an understatement for how I feel. I used to have access to a separate fibre network (not NBN, was FTTB with VDSL through the building) because I lived in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane -- not only was it cheaper, it was properly fast and had near symmetrical upload, not quite, but not 5% of the download. Now I'm stuck on NBN HFC. I get random 15 second dropouts, constant packet loss (but only incoming, not outgoing) when playing online shooters, its just crap all around. And the support for it hasn't helped. Sigh our internet is a mess. And its entirely down to the LNP as to why.
- cycomanic 5y agoWell if people would stop voting for the Rupert Murdoch private interest party things in Australia might improve. Seriously it's amazing the amount of damage that person has done to politics and the social fabric.
- HKH2 5y agoWhat right wing alternatives would you recommend?
- davidgerard 5y agoLabor
- Winsaucerer 5y agoMalcolm Turnbull advertised that FTTN could handle speeds up to 100Mb down. I thought that sounded alright -- cheaper, faster rollout, and same speeds as FTTP anyway (with faster FTTP speeds than 100Mb allegedly being absurdly expensive anyway). Of course, that requires keeping distances from nodes to a minimum, and in the end that wasn't done. I can't get higher than about 50Mb down due to distances from the exchange. I recall them saying that their 50Mb plan is most popular -- but I'm only on it because my connection is unstable at faster speeds. So yeah, it sucks.
- ajwin 5y agoAnd now, only a few years on, the FTTN is already slowly getting replaced at great expense making the FTTN a colossal waste of money. Turnbull knew better as other places on earth already tried FTTN and removed it. The cost of putting power to all the nodes was excessive and ongoing power bills eventually expensive too. FTTP was passive at the nodes. The only argument was that it was planned to be a quicker rollout which didn’t eventuate either. Total shit show.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoHow many kilometres of replacement copper did they buy? Fucks sake. Unfortunately perfectly demonstrative of both Australian politics and the Australian public. cough climate policy cough
- ungamedplayer 5y agoI find it difficult to feel bad for you. $69 AUD for 50 down, 10 up, and thats the BEST that i can get.
- girvo 5y agoOh I don’t even get access to it lol. I’m just saying that’s the absolute “best” our NBN offers, and it’s shit
- Gigachad 5y agoDepends where you are. The Adelaide CBD has widely rolled out 10Gbit. I'm in Adelaide and have 1Gbit at home. You just have to check before you move somewhere.
- aetherspawn 5y agoTo be fair, our 1000/400 connection is only marginally worse than an EC2 which benched in at 800/800. What killed the server probably wasn't bandwidth, but load (database error). Which means that a small EC2 wouldn't have coped, either.
- quickthrower2 5y agoJust stick it behind a cloudflare and give up on decentralised internet, network neutrality and all that jazz
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