21,000 faulty NBN connections claimed

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Another LABOR failure and botched policy....... 

One of an Abbott Government’s toughest jobs will be to clean up the NBN mess and stop the bleeding of our billions:

THE company building Labor’s $37.4 billion National Broadband Network could be forced to repair tens... after cutting corners in the construction processes to boost the number of homes passed by the massive infrastructure project.

The Australian can reveal that as of last week, connections to as many as 21,000 - one in eight - of the 163,500 existing homes and businesses passed by the fibre network were considered to contain defects in the network construction…

The defects mean that network connections to thousands of homes and businesses, which have been classified as “ready for service”, may require repairs before users can access the internet on the new network.

NBN Co last night disputed the figures, admitting there were significant defects but insisting the total number was lower than the [NBN internal] figures obtained by The Australian.

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@lakeland27 wrote:

the savings in medicine alone are potentially huge. a specialist being able to see and oversee an operation 1000ks away in real time is a huge economic and social benefit. being able to monitor patients Live in real time in HD would save billions. its impact on health (Australia's largest annual spend) is potentially larger than the startup cost of NBN. two-way visual/audio from home to hospital delivered reliably is a benefit hard to refute.

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Yes. Surgery is the extreme end. It's the imaging file transfer, the daily montioring and physio supervision that will benefit the most.  It will save the need for many people to travel long distances and will enable people to return home sooner after procedures that will see the real money saving for most people.

[para-sights]

Anyway we should throw politics aside, throw away what we as individuals need/want from the internet and realise that the internet has become as revolutionary as the industrial, computer revolution. To build a network that maybe completed by 2019 based on what the internet can do with today seems to lack forward thinking. I hope they change their minds (I'm sure no one will care as it's a largely more popular)

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@poddster wrote:

The question was :-

What data connection would be needed,

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It's not the speed so much as the quality that matters.

Now go back and answer the points raised on the last page if you wish to be included in the conversation.

You're easy to ignore if you'd rather.

[poddster]

still no reply as to the data connection to be able to do that?

In that case I will furnish the info with credit given to monman12

3.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for DVD quality
5.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for HD quality
7.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for Super HD quality
12 Megabits per second - Recommended for 3D quality

All of which is well within the realms of FTTN 🙂 and even straight ADSL2 over copper

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@para-sights wrote:

They've done it with robots on humans and performed guidance surgery over the net. England have doctors doing rounds via internet video link (the video link/robot one does look a bit strange though)

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Mike Quigley (NBN Co CEO) put his money up front and donated his first year salary to neuro science Australia for trial programs.

[para-sights]

But will that count in the average household while dad is conferencing or using cloud for his documents and the kids are streaming different movies on their smart tv's while mum uses the computer. Will the speed decrease if that average family accesses the internet at once?

[poddster]

It's not the speed so much as the quality that matters.

Quality?? in what way?

You keep coming out with unquantifiable phrases

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@para-sights wrote:

Anyway we should throw politics aside, throw away what we as individuals need/want from the internet and realise that the internet has become as revolutionary as the industrial, computer revolution. To build a network that maybe completed by 2019 based on what the internet can do with today seems to lack forward thinking. I hope they change their minds (I'm sure no one will care as it's a largely more popular)

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Someone started a petition on change.org today to keep the FTTP version. There are close to 10,000 signees already.

I have tried to keep politics out of the argument. It's hard when the children, trolls and spammers come out to attack.

[para-sights]

yeah I read that, incredibly noble act

[poddster]

Do you think that what you have described is the average household or will be?