NBN - Good or Bad

Pa Marmo · Post by **Pa Marmo** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:03 pm

Im led to believe that Bacchus Marsh (where I live) was one of the first roll outs of NBN in Victoria, and I for one love it. I was on cable in Hoppers Crossing, and the service here leaves it for dead. We stream 4K UHD movies all the time and it never misses a beat. The wife and I are NBN fans for sure.

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:02 pm

Pa Marmo wrote:Im led to believe that Bacchus Marsh (where I live) was one of the first roll outs of NBN in Victoria, and I for one love it. I was on cable in Hoppers Crossing, and the service here leaves it for dead. We stream 4K UHD movies all the time and it never misses a beat. The wife and I are NBN fans for sure.

Was that when the ALP was in or more recently?

Pa Marmo · Post by **Pa Marmo** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:51 am

ronrat · Post by **ronrat** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:40 pm

My folks in Qld hate it. Reckons the service is worse than what they had before. All the upgares to software required etc and Telstra ran out of products. Testra had to loan them a laptop indefinitely so Mum could get the internet to work. She is over 80 and because of council amalgamations, hospital closures/reclassification in Maryborough and the closure of the local post office they are now outside of the safety zone. They were not when they moved there. So Telstra is now responsible for footing the bill for the idiotic decisions of the Federal, State and Council bozos.

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:54 pm

One of the biggest performance bottlenecks irritating end customers is retailers not buying enough capacity from the NBN. A write-off, Slattery says, would allow the bandwidth fee (called CVC) to be slashed.
Read more at https://www.businessinsider.com.au/malc ... 2LlWe7o.99

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:14 pm

I had an NBN tech mark my property as unable to get coverage even though I'm 100m with direct LoS to the tower. Took 2 months to fix the issue with NBNCo reps lying to me every time I spoke to them and my ISP frustrated at every turn.

Government mandated monopolies are and always have been an inefficient, corrupt mess. There is no incentive for them to give good service as there's little to no profit motive because losses are socialised. **** the NBN and the horse it rode in on.

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:21 pm

^

Krudd set the whole thing up IIRC. Turnbull changed the tech model from FTTP to FTTN to make it cheaper, but the fundamental problems remain in place.

Under the current economic model, FTTP would be delivering even worse performance

Post by **David** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:18 pm

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:33 pm

FTTP is more expensive to do, No dispute on that. Using the current economic model set up by Krudd, NBN wholesale prices would need to be higher and the retailers would be doing what they're doing now, playing on the cheap, only more so. ergo, even worse speeds to the consumer.

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:03 pm

Retailers aren't buying enough bandwidth now, so peak times would be stuttering Netflix and dropouts galore.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:06 pm

Pa Marmo wrote:Im led to believe that Bacchus Marsh (where I live) was one of the first roll outs of NBN in Victoria, and I for one love it. I was on cable in Hoppers Crossing, and the service here leaves it for dead. We stream 4K UHD movies all the time and it never misses a beat. The wife and I are NBN fans for sure.

Luck You as that would be under the Labor Goverment was giving everyone Fibre Optic but not now under the Idiots in the Liberal Party screwed us who missed out.

IF everyone had Fibre Optics then lot of People would be Happier

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:08 pm

ronrat wrote:My folks in Qld hate it. Reckons the service is worse than what they had before. All the upgares to software required etc and Telstra ran out of products. Testra had to loan them a laptop indefinitely so Mum could get the internet to work. She is over 80 and because of council amalgamations, hospital closures/reclassification in Maryborough and the closure of the local post office they are now outside of the safety zone. They were not when they moved there. So Telstra is now responsible for footing the bill for the idiotic decisions of the Federal, State and Council bozos.

NBN has made Internet Worse just like Village and Foxtel Bribed the Government for

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 2:48 pm

Wokko wrote:Retailers aren't buying enough bandwidth now, so peak times would be stuttering Netflix and dropouts galore.

God. People Running the ISP Companies are not very Smart then

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 2:58 pm

stui magpie wrote:FTTP is more expensive to do, No dispute on that. Using the current economic model set up by Krudd, NBN wholesale prices would need to be higher and the retailers would be doing what they're doing now, playing on the cheap, only more so. ergo, even worse speeds to the consumer.

Krudd is still better then the Prick Turnbull

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NBN - Good or Bad