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| Thread ID: 88004 | 2008-03-11 23:52:00 | NZ 'on wrong broadband path'. . . . .who would've thought?? | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 648729 | 2008-03-12 12:26:00 | NZ needs a one hundred year development plan instead of the ad hoc "leave it to the market place to solve the problems" we have now. Of course that will never happen with the "stuck in the mud politicians" we have now. "For lack of vision, the people perish, says the Bible" |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 648730 | 2008-03-12 12:42:00 | New Zealand BB is rubbish compared to some countries - just had a client come back from a business trip to china, their BB is FAST according to him - This is what he told me last night ---- Sent a few pictures (60 odd) back to his email in NZ he didn't have a laptop so he went into some place like a shop that has the facility - he said to the guy at the place he'll come back later to collect his drive as being that many it may take a while - The shop guy laughed so he said, - within 15 seconds he had sent all pics :eek: My friend at a US university can upload a 155MB file onto Youtube in less than 4mins and she's not even on their "premium plan"!!!!! WTF! |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 648731 | 2008-03-12 19:20:00 | I was on a vacation to hong kong two years ago It was fast.10 mbps/10mbps both ways Downloaded 1GB in 1 minute ...now everyone will be shouting at me saying the land is different and there are more people bla bla bla. Got use to it.Either NZ catch up or people will leave NZ.Simple as that |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 648732 | 2008-03-12 22:10:00 | New Zealand BB is rubbish compared to some countries - just had a client come back from a business trip to china, their BB is FAST according to him - This is what he told me last night ---- I can confirm that BB in China is fast, makes NZ look silly. Having lived and worked in Asia, our BB is just a fast dial up, people there cannot understand how we are so far behind. And some of these countries, NZ would regard as being 3rd world. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 648733 | 2008-03-12 23:44:00 | My thread regarding satellite broadband was written because of this artlcle . Its a problem . Personally I think we should concentrate on ADSL1 to everyone before ADSL2 - there are still tens of thousands of Kiwis on dial-up . At the moment wireless and using existing electricty wiring have many problems . Fibre-optic cable is the gold standard . But technology moves - what if we as a nation spent $5 billion on cables only to face a new way of bypassing cables - 5 years from now? Sometimes it pays to wait . I don't know the answer but share everyones frustration . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 648734 | 2008-03-13 01:27:00 | The answer is simple. Run a 30-cm thick bundle of fibre to every exchange in NZ, then run fibre to the door. Fibre is easily upgradeable (can run many, many different wavelengths of light over one fibre, was on slashdot a while ago that some brains had got a rate of 1.27Tb/s over one fibre using 127 different wavelengths. You get the idea). With a bundle of fibres that big, the door is wide open for upgrades. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 648735 | 2008-03-13 01:41:00 | Check the population density of the places with fast connection. You''ll find they have well over 4000/sq km in those cities. The majority of the populations of those countries don't have fast Internet. The majority of the population of the world don't have any Internet access, and couldn't care less. They have important things to worry about. Move the whole population of NZ into a a small area and fast Internet for all will be economic. Of course there will be other (also very expensive) problems caused by this. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 648736 | 2008-03-13 02:40:00 | My thread regarding satellite broadband was written because of this article . Its a problem . Personally I think we should concentrate on ADSL1 to everyone before ADSL2 - there are still tens of thousands of Kiwis on dial-up . At the moment wireless and using existing electricity wiring have many problems . Fibre-optic cable is the gold standard . But technology moves - what if we as a nation spent $5 billion on cables only to face a new way of bypassing cables - 5 years from now? Sometimes it pays to wait . I don't know the answer but share everyones frustration . One doubts fibre optics will be super-ceded in our lifetime,so if you can arrange NZ coverage ,go ahead with confidence . |
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