What devices will be needed for the 700MHz network?
At present, I find Telstra’s 4G network around the country nearly works as well as their 3G network was in the early days. The 3G network is basically unusable in many locations. The worst contention I’ve found is around Collins St in Melbourne. It’s not uncommon to have 5 bars of connectivity and yet to be unable to resolve a DNS address (let alone connect to a site) from about 7:30AM to around 5:30PM. I remember discussing this “performance” with the Telstra “support” people. I was at Brisbane airport and ping times were 3000 ms (yep 3 seconds). He told me that the system was considered working if: * Less than half the packets were lost * The packets ever came back (no matter how long the delay was) Mentioning that my dial-up modem used to have a ping time of 30ms to 100ms fell on deaf ears. They seem to have enough funds to place huge adverts in the same airports though, where they endlessly make claims about having a fast network. The fastest NextG connectivity I’ve had in Australia was on King Island in the middle of Bass Strait. They have a NextG tower and I suspect that hardly anyone else was using it. What does annoy me is how they balance the quality of service settings. I can have a 4G iPhone sitting beside the 4G USB modem. The phone is still moving data but the modem isn’t, even though the modem is on a far more expensive data plan. Clearly they’ve decided that people that can’t use data on their phones will scream at them more than people paying a bunch of money to use a modem. The push is always to the lowest cost. I’m sure, however, that lots of business people would pay higher monthly rates for a service that actually worked. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2013 1:05 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NBN Petition It is great that you managed to get it sorted - I'd always thought it was an artificial/market segmentation thing by T to now cannibalise EoC/fibre business services. In other interesting Internet related news, the last of analogue TV gets turned off when we tick over to 1 Jan 2014. The end of 2014 and 1 Jan 2015 see the licenses commence for 2.5GHz and 700MHz respectively. It is going to be really interesting to see this play out. The performance of Telstra's LTE-A network @ 7xxMHz will be exceptional. I bought one of those new Telstra 4G/WiFi hotspots the other day to throw in my backpack: 99.58mbps down and 45mbps up (http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3195768480). David Connors <mailto:da...@connors.com> da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors <snip>
