IT WAS ME: first NBN user speaks about what it's like

Friday, 2nd July 2010 - APC Magazine

"It's AWESOME" says Robert Pettman of Midway Point, Tasmania, who is now surfing on 50Mbit/s home broadband speeds.

 

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Andrew Wilson
on 02/07/10		 I hate you!

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Alex McKenzie
on 02/07/10		 You sound a bit jealous! Our time will all come in the next 8 years, provided everything goes to plan, and you don't live in the bush.

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Andrew Wilson
on 03/07/10		 bit jealous? no. I am ALOT jealous!

I live in a country town.
I used to get 17meg adls. Now it has dropped down to 10 meg and the lowest was 6 meg. I be sad.

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DC
on 24/07/10		 Wow, someone who is connected to a backbone network with virtually no other users gets high throughput, who woulda thunk it?

The many comments in forums like this still confirm - after many years on Internet experience now - that most users have no idea whatsoever what contributes to the actual performance of their Internet connections.

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aimz
on 30/07/10		 erm..the comments aren't that bad. But it is true, most people will bitch at whirlpool or complain before even contacting their ISP for some simple troubleshooting. Most of your speed problems are due to your equipment in your house (modems/filters) or the quality and distance of your house to the exchange. The ISP has very little to do with your speeds. We're all running off Telstra's 60 year old crappy copper network.

All except Robert Pettman of Midway Point ofcourse.
However, Tasmania has been behind the mainland for a while, so yay! for them

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doug
on 02/08/10		 The above is true about phone lines to exchanges for internet as adsl but the isps engineers would have been fully aware of the shortcomings but the isps still advertise those high speeds which are unattainable, misleading new subscribers.

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Andrew Wilson
on 04/08/10		 Actually the line are over 100 years old!

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