How Fast is the NBN?

[Darren]

My first Modem that used copper wires ran at 1200 bps, my current link over the same copper is 8000000 bps. They'll work out how to up the speed over NBN over time - light travels pretty fast ...

[zimeric]

NBN is 1000% scaleable, the max speed being supplied now to individual homes is 1/100th of its current ability. and speaking to an NBN engineer (i was the NBN customer/wholesale contact for iiNet for 2 years) a while back he advised that the limits on speed currently are purely due to the routers at each ends ability to process data.
wireless alternatives are fast but use up huge spectrums of digital frequencies to supply that speed. Additionally, for those of you that have ever used wireless internet know how unreliable it is (as in black spots etc) and susceptable to interference it is.. Im pretty sure the NBN is the way forward... and it has to be full fibre to the home, not to the node, as the libs are proposing.

[jargan83]

as the libs are proposing.

Pretty much a done deal that the Libs are going to win the election

[palitu]

when you think about it, gigabit networks are already running very comonnly over fibres, so there is your 1000% already.

definately need the fibres into the house. Everything is going onto the net!

[zimeric]

Pretty much a done deal that the Libs are going to win the election

for the sake of the NBN this is unfortunately so

[Elf1]

for the sake of the NBN this is unfortunately so

Its a wonder Abbott and Turnbull don't have us using pedal power like we had in the 1950's for the radios in the bush

[The InnFORCEr]

NBN work stops amid Sydney asbestos fears

AAP
Updated May 29, 2013,
10:45 am


Work on the NBN has been suspended in a residential area of Sydney amid fears contractors haven't safely handled the removal of asbestos.

Telstra is conducting an audit into the practices of contractors upgrading pits as part of the NBN roll-out, after a Penrith resident contacted WorkCover concerned that asbestos safety procedures weren't followed.

Hundreds of residents and contractors may have been exposed to asbestos, stirred up and spread by workers who failed to follow safe handling guidelines, News Limited reports.

Work in the area was "immediately shut down", the contractor Service Stream was suspended and sites were "safely secured," a Telstra spokesman said in a statement.

"The safe and proper handling and disposal of asbestos is an absolute and not-negotiable priority," he said in a statement.

Telstra is hoping it will have sites cleaned up by Thursday and is seeking approval from affected residents to begin "comprehensive cleaning of their properties", he added.

As part of the national audit, Telstra will examine subcontractors' asbestos management procedures, compliance monitoring, asbestos awareness and competency, public notification where work involves asbestos and what action can be undertaken to remedy potential problems.

"We absolutely expect our contractors to get this type of work right each and every time so we are extremely concerned proper processes may not have been followed on a small number of occasions," Telstra chief operations officer Brendon Riley said.

"We are conducting this audit to ensure the law and our own strict guidelines are adhered to at all times."

The federal opposition's communications and broadband spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said one of the problems was that NBN Co had set targets for rollout costs per premise and the number of premises to be connected.

"So there is a lot of pressure on everybody to get things done," he told Macquarie Radio on Wednesday.

Mr Turnbull said one of the advantages of the coalition's alternative NBN policy of not connecting fibre to premises but only to neighbourhood nodes was that pits containing asbestos outside homes were not disturbed.

That was on top of completing the roll-out much more quickly and at lower cost than under Labor's time-consuming and expensive plan, he said.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...sbestos-fears/

[jono]

Idiots! Every Australian knows how dangerous asbestos is!
If they were negligent, they should go to jail
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[Invictus]

NBN is 1000% scaleable, the max speed being supplied now to individual homes is 1/100th of its current ability. and speaking to an NBN engineer (i was the NBN customer/wholesale contact for iiNet for 2 years) a while back he advised that the limits on speed currently are purely due to the routers at each ends ability to process data.
wireless alternatives are fast but use up huge spectrums of digital frequencies to supply that speed. Additionally, for those of you that have ever used wireless internet know how unreliable it is (as in black spots etc) and susceptable to interference it is.. Im pretty sure the NBN is the way forward... and it has to be full fibre to the home, not to the node, as the libs are proposing.

Thanks. That makes things much clearer!

[Hansie]

Who would have thought TWF would be such an informative site. I have learnt heaps and will bang on my Lib Fed member's door to bring optic fibre cables to my door. And when do I want it...NOW!

[WF2404]

Hopefully Labour will sign us up long term contracts to make sure as much of it is built as possible. Maybe leave out all the liberal safe seats and see if they then do the infill! :-)

Interestingly you never hear Turnbull bag the fibre technology, his criticisms are usually about the business case, cost or length of rollout period.

[palitu]

you really cannot find fault with fibre... it is used extensively for a reason...

[jono]

you really cannot find fault with fibre... it is used extensively for a reason...

There's a joke about keeping regular in that

[Happy]

There's a joke about keeping regular in that

is that why you're up at 5am?

[jono]

is that why you're up at 5am?

On site 0430 alarms
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