Actually I think the tone and (highly debatable that it exists) substance of the article was something along the lines of “Yeah bandwidth in Australia is abysmal, and yeah it doesn’t look like the NBN is gonna make it hugely better, but (he inserts BIG non sequitur here) in those countries that do have great speeds and internet they have censorship regimes that mean they don’t get all the content we get in a free society.”
So, what he ostensibly does is admit Australia’s infrastructure is crap, and that the replacement infrastructure is gonna be a similar type of excrement, but says ‘at least we’re free to use the crap we have for whatever we want’. If so, this should have been filed under a political heading rather than a technology one. To my mind … its not an argument for anything and a pointless filler on the part of Fairfax. Perhaps the standard of their editorial staff has reached new lows and they are simply desperate for content that their steadily shrinking stable of journalists can’t provide. Just my 2 cents worth ---- > On 26 Mar 2016, at 8:50 AM, JanW <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 08:16 PM 25/03/2016, David Boxall wrote: > >> <http://www.smh.com.au/technology/innovation/a-nonsensationalist-look-at-australian-internet-speeds-20160325-gnr0p7.html> > > I would just like to know why YouTube vids stop every 5 minutes. It's not my > network connection/provider because it doesn't happen with other streaming > services like Netflix. It's just Youtube. And of course if Youtube recognises > there's a problem and shows me the Internode performance, there is nothing > there to indicate it's an Internode problem. > > As for speeds -- the avg is because the avg install is ADSL, with its plus or > minus 8mbps top speed. If there has been increases month to month as the > article says, that is the minor effect of people slowly slowly slowly being > added to NBN type services. > > Jan > > > I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 > > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > [email protected] > Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker > Blog: www.janwhitaker.com > > Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you > fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. > ~Margaret Atwood, writer > > _ __________________ _ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
