Top 10 Benefits of the NBN

[*crikey*mate*]

What are they?

Why do people want it?

Why do people need it?

How does it compare with what we have now?

How will it benefit us compared to what we have now?

[cherry*135]

I think it's not a matter of why an individual personally needs the NBN but why Australia needs to modernize it's speeds (both now and long term) to keep up with the technology of the rest of the world, that won't wait for Australia to catch up.

Very good post. 

People need to look at the wider picture.

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[*crikey*mate*]

maincoon - your answer makes sense to me - we need it to be internationally competitive - i.e. globalization. I didn't know that other countries already had this technology.

now I'm sold. Our economy relies on our ability to be able to compete with and within a global market. Bring on the NBN.

freaky - you helped a lot too - thanks - I just couldn't get my head around why we couldn't do everything you say with technology we already have - so to me, because I know we can already do that stuff, it just seemed like a lot of money to be spending when we need money directed to so many things.

When speaking domestically, I can't see the point - but globally, we have to keep up with our trading partners.

[freakiness]

Sorry for not making it clear I was speaking about domestic and global potential.

Listen to the Simon Hackett speech I posted, to the end. He says he would profit more in the short term by the FTTN model because they can drag more life out of their equipment but he says it's not the right way to go.  Simon created internode.

[*crikey*mate*]

Freaky, please - you told me of many, many benefits for having it all the while trying to keep it simple for me - it was great and really informative and thank you for your patience in helping me to understand.

The deal breaker for me was that other countries already have this technology - I didn't know that - I was under the impression that we were trying to be a world first again and "lead the way for others to follow", which is a great ambition, if you have the funds to do so but not so much IMO when there are so many other things needing money just to get up to a decent level iykwim.

[poddster]

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

[lakeland27]

the half-baked abbott turnbull plan has you worried poddy ? they did manage to make conroy look pretty good.. do you think this issue might cause people to examine some of the other coalition bright ideas ?

[bright.ton42]

OK I live within about 100 metres of the exchange so am lucky -  I have very fast

ADSL2 and no probs with connection, and fast downloads.  So do I have to use the NBN when 

it comes in?  Or can I stay with my provider?  How will this affect someone like me?

Sorry if this sounds dumb but  I'm no techhead, even though people here have explained

it very clearly and thanks for that.     🙂

[poddster]

the half-baked abbott turnbull plan has you worried poddy ?

Not in the least LL, you yourself agreed that internet data flow speed is limited to the slowest link.

Tell me LL what type of service do you have? that by the way is a serious question

You will notice that I have not brought politics into this discussion , just NBN as a network and in particular FTTP

I will now state another irrefutable fact.

2. The speed of signal flow in Optic Fibre is no faster then in Copper being around 0.66% of the speed of light in a vacuum.

I invite anyone and everyone to prove that statement

[not_an_eloi]

err ..  south korea, japan, denmark, sweden,   nbn,   fibre to the premises 

[poddster]

OK I live within about 100 metres of the exchange so am lucky -  I have very fast

ADSL2 and no probs with connection, and fast downloads.  So do I have to use the NBN when

it comes in?  Or can I stay with my provider?  How will this affect someone like me?

Sorry if this sounds dumb but  I'm no techhead, even though people here have explained

it very clearly and thanks for that.     🙂

You can decide that for your self.

Here is a link to a site that will check out the internet speed that you have at the moment

http://speedtest.net/

That that site does is send a block of test data (10MB) to your PC and measures the speed at which your PC accepts it in terms of Mega bits per second (download speed).Then it requests part of that block back and measures the speed of that (upload). it then displays te result.

You can choose servers from justa bout anywhere in the world as a comparison.

Choose the recomended closest server to begin with and then choose one in .......say the USA or the UK and compare the difference

The result will be in Mbps

I would be interested in your results