On 24/01/2017, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/01/2017 1:49 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as >> the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Bret Busby <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 >> Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting >> To: Daniel <[email protected]> >> >> On 23/01/2017, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> >>> One day, if I'm lucky, I'll get an ADSL standard connection. But not >>> soon!! >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel >>> >> >> Ah - I think you will be out of luck, there. >> >> The whole landline telephone network is being progressively shut down, >> in Australia, and, replaced with the forced NBN thing, which means, >> amongst other things, that the emergency services will be >> incommunicado, in an electricity failure. We are told that we will >> have to keep our cellphones fully charged, all of the time, to provide >> for the NBN and therefore, communications with the emergency services, >> going down. But, for people like us, who have intermittent cellphone >> access, "we just gotta die" After all, Western Australia IS a remote >> community... I don't know what your cellphone access in Albury, is >> like, but, if it is as bad as ours, you will need a very reliable >> prayer book. >> >> > No, Bret, my mobile 'phone access is reasonably reliable, even here at > Broadford, Vic, but, because of my previous poor landline 'phone service > at my previous residence (Killara on the outskirts of Wodonga), I've > been using a 3G USB Dongle for my Internet access for many years. > > And my ISP is not one of the big, powerful, NBN providers, so I may not > be getting an improved service from the NBN! >
NBN does not necessarily mean that customers get the speeds that they want or expect. Our ADSL2 service gives us maximum normal download speed of around 8-9Mb/s, or, 1 MB/s, and, in watching my system monitor, I have seen it peak at 2MB/s. However, in Australia (where the Internet is officially not regarded as telecommunications, by the office of the TIO), many people are not able to get ADSL speeds that others can get, with the whizzbang NBN dump. Of course, then, there are the issues such as hosting server capacities, and, incompetent (or malicious) web design, so that, for example, I can get Ubuntu Linux system updates, downloading at anything up to 2 MB/s, and, weather bureau (government websites are apparently, the worst written websites on the Internet) local observations web pages, timing out And, in terms of demand for services, being a factor, I generally get the best download speeds, from youtube. So, whilst the NBN is touted as the wonderful, whizzbang, high speed breakthrough for Australia, what Australia is getting, is like the electricity supply - "sometimes it works, and, sometimes, it doesn't, so, if you do not expect it to work, you will not be disappointed". -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
