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The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 03:51:16 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ6BLIp5_J4

Malcolm Turbull said Verizon are not rolling out Fibre to the premises any more. It seems he is wrong about that.

Ignoring the fact that the video is a Verizon ad, it is a good explanation of why FTTP is the way our NBN should continue in its current form.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:02:05 GMT

Everyone I know has gone wifi And yes I am technology challanged

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:43:16 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Everyone I know has gone wifi And yes I am technology challanged

Same here. Go home, everything connects to home wifi. Go to work, everything connects to work wifi.

My wifi connects to the NBN. Wifi needs a fixed connection to connect to.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:49:20 GMT

Mine doesn't have to be fixed. I have no landline connection at all.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:58:03 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Mine doesn't have to be fixed. I have no landline connection at all.

Don't you have fixed wireless?

Do you plug into your fixed wireless device or does your fixed wireless device have it's own wifi?

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:02:03 GMT

Don't get to technical on me lol

It's a combined device? Can plug into the computer and it also allows other devices in the house to get wifi. But the computer is not in anyway attached to a landline, be it cable, fibre or otherwise.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:02:34 GMT

No landline phone either.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:11:34 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
No landline phone either.

I know. I remember when you moved.

You have a fixed wireless connection (gateway) with wifi

The fixed wireless connects to the network (probably 3G) and your computers/phones etc connect to the wifi.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:26:55 GMT

Mobile phone only. So no need for any street connection as the signal is via towers

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:41:44 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Mobile phone only. So no need for any street connection as the signal is via towers

Didn't you get the wireless gateway you talked about?

After you moved I remember you talking about the cost of getting a phone line and saying you were going to get a wireless gateway.

What sort of data limit/quota do you have?

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:49:40 GMT

The original wireless with optus was all but useless so that went back. Vodafone pre paid is what I have now for my general use. We have a Telstra Elite thingy too for when we want to use the tablets etc. Vodafone is much cheaper.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:53:25 GMT

We didn't have any cheap wireless options available.

It used to cost me over $100 for 5GB before I got the NBN.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:56:18 GMT

I have never heard of a gateway. Maybe someone else?

Depends on what I need as to data use. School holidays we use more. Sometimes as little as 500mb is enough per month

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:03:05 GMT

@freakiness wrote:
We didn't have any cheap wireless options available.
It used to cost me over $100 for 5GB before I got the NBN.

It's better here now they have put another 2 towers up, glad I'm not close to those! That's another issue lol

Vodafone is $19 for 500 $29 for 2 and so on. And if I don't use the internet for a month or so I'm not paying a monthy a/c.

I'm still confused as to the towers and the NBN....

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:23:38 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
I have never heard of a gateway. Maybe someone else?

Depends on what I need as to data use. School holidays we use more. Sometimes as little as 500mb is enough per month

No, fairly sure it was you. I remember you were going to try the Optus wireless connection for net and phone because Telstra wanted to charge a lot for a connection to your new house.

A gateway is just another name for a modem/device that you can connect your computers, phone etc to to access the network.

I didn't know you sent it back.

Wow, what do you do online? I use more than that in a day 😄

Your plan would never suit me 😄

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:21:14 GMT

Now see I have learnt something.....a gateway lol

Yes Telstra wanted $600 to run a cable 3 mts. House is already wired.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:26:38 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Now see I have learnt something.....a gateway lol

Yes Telstra wanted $600 to run a cable 3 mts. House is already wired.

If NBN is in your area soon the house will get connected at no cost.

There was a story last week where the pit was outside the shop door and they wanted *$7000 to connect it. After some fighting the cost was reduced to *$4000. *approximate

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

twinkles**stars — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:29:44 GMT

At no cost? We shall see.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:33:02 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
At no cost? We shall see.

The current NBN conenctions are free to the house.

You obviously pay for a service if you order one, but not the connection.

Re: The bandwidth effect.The last mile.

freakiness — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:52:02 GMT

That was quick.

My answer has gone, vanished.