OT: Fibre to Home

[sparoz]

Just at my parent's place in Hong Kong - and they just installed fibre to home at 100Mbps.

I am fully against the NBN because I don't think the tax payer should be forking out the $, but well... it is FAST. Hopefully, we will get this someday in Aus...

[x5mad]

Sounds good in principal but in reality the average home user and small business don't have any real need for it.

[MickyD]

just like no computer will ever need more than 640k of memory (Bill Gates), and there is a global market for maybe 5 computers (Thomas Watson)?

[sparoz]

Originally Posted by x5mad

Sounds good in principal but in reality the average home user and small business don't have any real need for it.

I logged into my network in the shop regularly from home, and at best it is slow. Much faster in HK from so far away because I only have to deal with one side of bottle neck. Imaging I've got fibre both sides - it would be like using it at work.

Not a necessity, but certainly a great luxury to have.

[Brissie]

Great to have high speed Internet for most of us. Unfortunately the size of Australia is how many times of HK? The cost of NBN just seems way too high to me.

[Dec540]

Originally Posted by x5mad

Sounds good in principal but in reality the average home user and small business don't have any real need for it.

Cameras are already capable of shooting 4k video. Just to put it into perspective 1080p has roughly 2million pixels but 4k has 12million pixels. A full 1080p movie uncompressed is around about 50gig. So you can imagine that a 4k video would be around 600gig (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). On a 10mbps connection your theoretical download is around 800kb/s which means you can download a blu ray movie in roughly 2 and a half hours. You pretty much need at least a 20mbps download to stream 1080p so you can imagine what you will need to stream 4k movies.

[banglemangle]

A bowl of fibre certainly makes me run faster - sadly, not govt subsidised :-(

[aus135i]

was @ my dad's place back in mainland China 2 wks ago (province capital) and guess what they had? FIBER! something as small as bband and we cant even get it right! some developed country we are....

[RadiuM]

Bring on the nbn. I'm stuck at a max of 80kb/s due to being so far from the exchange

It sucks coming from fibre at work to home

[amk2912]

Personally I'd like to know I wasn't going to die waiting in an emergency waiting room or my kids could go to a govt school (they don't) that was adequately resourced.

The NBN is all about a lame-duck govt in freefall that has it's priorities wrong.

[WAY]

Originally Posted by banglemangle

A bowl of fibre certainly makes me run faster - sadly, not govt subsidised :-(

[dh58]

Originally Posted by x5mad

Sounds good in principal but in reality the average home user and small business don't have any real need for it.

right now.. no we don't...


with it there is so much possibility..

[sparoz]

Despite of our densities and vast distance, there are business cases for Fibre to Home/Business Internet companies are already bringing fibre to home in new estates without the NBN and it will only be time where most people would have accessed to it. What the government needs to do is to have CSOs for the places where there isn't a business case for and it would have cost a lot less.

What I don't believe in is 43 Billion of our money poured into something that private companies would have spent on. It would have been much better used else where - like health and education.