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My NBN Broad-Band connection went down on Thursday evening, a technician was out early this morning and it took him less than 5 minutes to identify and fix the problem. I was the cause of the problem, I was making some wiring changes in the NBN termination box when my arm caught in the thin Fibre Optic cable, i moved my arm and of course the cable snapped so that was that and again, an annoyance that I couldn’t see what was about to happen <smile>. Anyway I only mention this because during the down time of the NBN I obviously had to rely on my 4G mobile data service which I used mainly with my Samsung Galaxy S6 and the personal Hotspot connected to either the Mac or the Windows PC but mainly the as the data transfer rate was a lot faster than with the PC and I’ll explain more about that in a few seconds. Actually the data rate itself was far faster than I get with the NBN, with the NBN its about 2.5MB down and 500K up but with the 4G data - using the PC - it was around 3.5MB up and about the same down. However on the MAC the data speed changed dramatically and this was absolutely astounding, 35MB down and 5MB up. So why the big speed difference between Windows PC and Mac? Well I can’t confirm this definitely but I suspect that the Wi-Fi dongle I was using on the PC to connect to the Samsung was slowing things down due to the fact that it is a USB device and connected to a USB 2.0 port whereas with the Mac Mini I was using its own built-in Wi-Fi connection and I suspect things may have even been faster had the Wi-Fi connection from the Mac been the latest AAC standard. so what of all this? Well nothing really only to say that if you’re not using a huge amount of data then you’d possibly be much better off getting a good 4G plan with your phone carrier rather than having a broad-Band service installed in your home. ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
