On 22/09/15 08:38, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 21/09/15 12:03, Andy Farkas wrote: > >> The first FttN enabled areas go live today ... > First NBN FttN in Australia?
Yes. Although it could still be called a trial as these are the trial build areas. Belmont, NSW. > There is also a news item which seems to suggest Malcolm Turnbull built > the NBN (perhaps by waving his hands, parting the soil for the fibre, > like a latter day Moses): Malcs likes to take credit for all the base work Quigly did. He poo-pooed the new satellites, but now they're part of *his* MTM. But after 2 years of no MTM, a $19bn blowout, and 4 years behind schedule, we get our first dibs at node-lotto (the further away from the node, the slower the speed). And lets not talk about reliability... > "Malcolm Turnbull's NBN gets Newcastle 'hooked'", (David Ramli, AFR, Sep > 21 2015): > http://www.afr.com/technology/malcolm-turnbulls-nbn-gets-newcastle-hooked-20150908-gjhk6c Is that the one where the Telstra techs had to come back 4 times to get his link 'optimised'? And it took him over an hour to download 5.6GB? That's only 12mbps ya know. David Ramli is not a journalist. He just rewords LNP pressers. > And an even sillier version "Fast download with NBN trial > ‘unbelievable’" (MATTHEW KELLY, Herald, Sept. 20, 2015): > http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3361487/fast-download-with-nbn-trial-unbelievable/ > > It is good to know that billions have been invested so Australians can > quickly download episodes of Game of Thrones and send payment for it > overseas. ;-) > > Perhaps we might consider using the NBN for something productive, like > creating some content, or education? > > I wonder if Malcs has heard of the 'cloud'... -andyf _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
