> Rod Tucker's info-graphic for The Conversation envisages a typical > Australian home in 2020 having a tablet computer, a laptop, four > smartphones and three TVs, all in use simultaneously: > https://theconversation.com/infographic-how-fast-is-the-nbn-54392
Hi Tom Rod's wrong (sorry mate). Go into JB HiFi and simply *look*: speakers, games consoles, televisions, PVRs, blueray players all want internet. Even the water systems in Bunnings want a wifi link, let alone the doorbells. You won't make it through school these days from Year 9 upwards without access to a computer to make assignment-writing more efficient. So the kids alone will have two devices, and probably more. The TV isn't really an standalone internet device, it's just a big screen. Pull up Netflix on your phone, Chromecast it to the telly. So I doubt TVs will count much as internet devices which pull significant data from outside the home (as compared to within the home). > Similarly, I suggest projections of the amount of bandwidth for the > "home" of 2025 is largely irrelevant. Actually it makes no difference to the need for first mile fibre if the antenna is within the home or outside the home on a powerpole. Either way we're eventually going to pay for a thing which looks like a fibre-to-the-home NBN, give or take a few metres of cable. My bet is "within the home" because of the way telco economics work: they'll want a levy per device, but one of the really attractive features of wifi is the ability to add more low-use devices for little initial hassle and no ongoing messing about. I also think there's still substantial benefit to a "home area network" for TVs, printers and so on. And one you've got a wifi core device, running the Internet to that is a no-brainer. -glen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
