NBN 1Gbps.???

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

The same can be said for a great many government projects,

Have fun listing even one that is costing anything like $50B from now on.

at least the NBN has utility that will extend for decades to come.

Just as true of current ways in which broadband is being delivered.

Yes, FTTP is quite a bit faster than the current broadband,
but it makes absolutely no sense to be spending anything
like $50B just so people can download DVDs much quicker.

Thats about all the absolute vast bulk of consumers will ever do with the better speed.

 

[terryc]

Yes, FTTP is quite a bit faster than the current broadband, but it makes
absolutely no sense to be spending anything like $50B just so people can
download DVDs much quicker.

I agree, lets go back to gravel road as they are cheaper to maintain.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Rod Speed wrote

I agree, lets go back to gravel road as they are cheaper to maintain.

Wrong, as always.

 

[terryc]

terryc wrote


Wrong, as always.

Yes, you were and are wrong, as always Roddles. OTOH, you are probably
just ignorant of this and many other factors in the real world.

 

[terryc]

Some of you may not like what I am about to say

Just give it in a nutshell please.
My eyes are tired as we have just been junked and it was loaded with
election flyers promising sodom and gommerah and that was just the main
parties, let alone the god bothers and bible bashers.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Rod Speed wrote

Yes, you were and are wrong, as always Roddles.

You never ever could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

No surprise that you are completely unemployable.

 

[Mr.T]

* Your local video store will U/L the video you want in a few seconds. No
need to drive down the road to collect what you want, subscribe to Foxtel
and wait for their programming department or wait hours to obtain it via a
torrent source.
* Home video communication will be a reality.
* Video conferencing will alter business.

At a cost of $43Billion, I think we could happily live without any of that.
When we have no food or water, I guess it will give us a distraction. But
when we have no electricity, how will we power our computers?

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

Look at it from the customers viewpoint. Do they really require delivery
at that speed? IMU current highest quality movies require 8Gb which will
take eight seconds to deliver. So allowing 10secs per movie, roughly 720
customers could receive the movie in the two hour time it takes to play
on a 1GBps pipe from the supplier.

Or could still supply those same customers with real time viewing at 1/720th
of the download rate per customer.
Or simply borrow a Blu-Ray disc from your local video shop and save
$43BILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

The company that I work for make big storage servers. By big I mean
hundred to thousands of drives in a box. The drives can range from SSDs,
to 15K rpm fibre channel, to 7.2K rpm SATA drives depending on the the
required speed of access to the data. Each box is capable of servicing
up to 64 1 gig ethernet or 4 gig fibre channel connections
simultaneously.

Somehow I feel the cost to provide 64 simultaneous customers is quite high
though. And that's ON TOP of the $43BILLION NBN.

The question remains why you need to download a movie in seconds, that takes
hours to watch anyway?

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

Exactly - so we end up subsidising big business once more.

Yep, which is amazing that it's a Labor plan opposed by the Liberals, rather
than the other way around. Liberals are the party who usually give taxpayers
money to big business. Don't the mining companies want an NBN I wonder?

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

I pay a bucketful for all sorts of infrastructure that I will never use,
thats the way that society works.

Yep, and *shouldn't* for NON-essential services, when we can't even get
decent essential ones like electricity and water!

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

The same can be said for a great many government projects, at least the
NBN has utility that will extend for decades to come.

Nope, it will probably be outdated long before then. People already want
high speed *wireless* services, NOT be fixed to a cable.

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

I agree, lets go back to gravel road as they are cheaper to maintain.

Would be funny IF they weren't proposing to lay fibre cables along side
gravel roads!!!!

MrT.

 

[SG1]

I agree, lets go back to gravel road as they are cheaper to maintain.

What do you mean go back to???? I live in a state of Anna Blight.....

 

[terryc]

At a cost of $43Billion, I think we could happily live without any of
that. When we have no food or water, I guess it will give us a
distraction. But when we have no electricity, how will we power our
computers?

Bicycle powered generators. all those people who eat too much will be at
the gym trying to work it all off again and their work will be connected
into the grid as a renewable green power source.

 

[terryc]

Would be funny IF they weren't proposing to lay fibre cables along side
gravel roads!!!!

Usually,the fibre is further away, about 100 metres into the paddocks.
easier access and only a few fences to cut and repair as they lay it out.

 

[terryc]

What do you mean go back to???? I live in a state of Anna Blight.....

Roddles lives in the city and has hotmix between his dos house and
drinking hole and thinks that is what everyoe else has,

 

[terryc]

Nope, it will probably be outdated long before then. People already want
high speed *wireless* services, NOT be fixed to a cable.

Some people think they want it and that is all that is needed. the rest
of us know that those wireless towers are going to need enormous bundles
of fibre and that it is easier and better to just get another fibre put
to them with better bandwidth/signal/picture/more/super/delux/platinum/
another superlative/etc service.

 

[atec77]

Some people think they want it and that is all that is needed. the rest
of us know that those wireless towers are going to need enormous bundles
of fibre and that it is easier and better to just get another fibre put
to them with better bandwidth/signal/picture/more/super/delux/platinum/
another superlative/etc service.

Wireless the last mile if far cheaper and more efficient , or
alternately use the existing copper also mush more logical

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Mr.T wrote

Usually,the fibre is further away, about 100 metres into the paddocks.

You are wrong, as always.