On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 21:33 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > it already! And what exactly is "an inferior connection" ? A > FTTH connection either works or it doesn't.
With pretty much any networking technology that I know of, it's entirely possible to have a connection that suffers from intermittent failures; with most of them it's possible to have degraded performance - fibre included. Bad fibre, bad splices, bad connectors, incompatible fibre types, too-sharp bends... the causes of connectivity loss or degradation are legion. And a wonky power connection will bring everything undone, even if the network side is 100% perfect. Not saying anything about the accuracy of the article, just taking issue with your apparent statement that an NBN connection cannot be "inferior". > The general consensus is that Tony and Malcolm have > successfully demolished the NBN as they threatened to > do pre-election. Yup. The Coalition[1] set out to, and have successfully, f&^$ed any possibility of Australia having a decent broadband system for at least 20 years. Oh, bits of Australia will be fine - but most of it (and particularly anyone outside major population centres) will be eating scraps for a looong time yet. Thanks Malcom. Thanks Tony. Decency does not permit me, in this forum, to use the words I want to use when referring to you. Regards, K. [1] I only just noticed that the first part of "Coalition" is "coal"... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link