What does faster broadband mean?

[donnashuggy]

Isn't it a bit misleading when Tony Abbott says the coalition will deliver faster broadband than Labor?

Shouldn't he be pulled up on it?

[poddster]

I notice that both of those results are to servers that are under 50 miles distant and most likely they are to the local backbone that connects to the server.

As a comparison  why noy post some results that are off shore like perhaps India, UK or the US for instance?

[just_me_karen]

Freaki could you please just keep posting them until you get a result that supports what plodz wants?

[lakeland27]

😛  i was reading  rogue scientist the other day, a source said that another well-connected source told him that he'd heard somewhere that rattan cane is more efficient than optic fibre if someone hits you with it often enough.

[freakiness]

I notice that both of those results are to servers that are under 50 miles distant and most likely they are to the local backbone that connects to the server.

As a comparison  why noy post some results that are off shore like perhaps India, UK or the US for instance?

So what if they're to the nearest server.

You will continue to pick regardless.

I'm not here to answer to you.

[freakiness]

Gee this one was 2 years ago when the network was even slower

[poddster]

Gee this one was 2 years ago when the network was even slower

2 years ago?? Was it even availabe at that time?

Could it be that you have chosen a cable result? Hmmmmm......

[freakiness]

No, of course it's not a cable result, assuming you mean HFC.

Shows how much you know about the NBN and yet you get on here arguing about it.

[monman12]

FN: "No, of course it's not a cable result, assuming you mean HFC."

And it is unlikely to be if the super NBN has its way in that no competition is allowed. However, in the possible event that the Coalition assume power in September they are not going follow the ridiculous course of shutting down the Optus HFC and preventing Telstra HFC from data/voice transmissions.

A State owned monopoly communication system protected from competition by law, that rings a bell!

"Lenin’s essential claim was that state-monopoly capitalism provided the necessary technical conditions for the advance to socialism."