Faster broadband (Was Re: [clug] stupid Communications ministers)

[Adrian Blake]

Let me summarise the asymmetrical nature of ADSL and its variants:

Data in --> dollars out and data out --> dollars in

this is the customer and supplier point of view.


Adrian

Quoting Jacinta Richardson <jarich at perltraining.com.au>:

> Steve Walsh wrote:
>
> >> Why do we need faster broadband, asides from playing games and
> keeping
> >> up with the Joneses?
> >
> > Broadband use in Australia isn't just Domestic, a lot of us use it to
> > help earn a crust. I'd love faster broadband, I'm just getting sick of
> > people who say we don't need it because they can read a webpage as
> fast
> > as it can render.
>
> I agree with Steve.  I want faster upload because from a business point
> of view
> that's where we're suffering.  There are too many times when we saturate
> our
> upstream while our downstream stays idle.  Sure it would be nice to be
> able to
> pull various things down faster, but that has less of a negative impact
> on our
> business.
>
> Currently we're getting 1,500/256kbps.   Our ISP is asking for
> expressions of
> interest in 8,000/384kbps which would be an improvement, but mostly in
> the wrong
> direction.  I notice that iinet is offering up to 24,000/1,000kbps and
> may soon
> be available in our area.  What I really want though is Internode's
> offering:
> 24,000/2,500kbps but they don't have any plans out our way for the
> moment.  To
> be honest, if any of them offered something like 1,500/1,500kbps they'd
> have a
> happy customer in me.  Our down-stream is "fast enough" right now.  That
> may
> change in the future, but right now it's fast enough.
>
> So I need faster broadband so that I can send files to the printers
> while
> customers are downloading course notes.  And other related things.
>
> 	J
>
>
>
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