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Thread ID: 80323	2007-06-19 10:28:00	Australia announces vast national broadband plan	zqwerty (97)	PC World Chat

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560594	2007-06-25 01:47:00	I was assuming that he had returned home to Masterton (being that he had left his home town of Masterton some 20 years ago to go to the US) and that despite the relative size of this country both geographically and population wise a decent internet service should be available to all towns and cities. Having just read the Herald article, it seems a rather strange story. The unedited file was quick to download from the US. That suggests that his broadband connection wasn't that bad. Masterton after all isn't really a back water, it is the main Telecom location in the Wairarapa. Peter Jackson possibly has his (substantial) home connections running through this exchange. A finished 1.4MB sample took 4 hours to upload and the final cut took 22 hrs to upload. As any line conditions will usually impact download speed first, this is very odd. Persisting for so long even odder still. Coming from the US he might be aware that even there they are wrestling with the problem of broadband access to small towns and rural locations. Broadband is not universally available there either.	PaulD (232)
560595	2007-06-25 03:51:00	Coming from the US he might be aware that even there they are wrestling with the problem of broadband access to small towns and rural locations. Broadband is not universally available there either. Indeed it isn't but what they do have is vastly better than what we have access to due mainly to a small thing called competition.	winmacguy (3367)
560596	2007-06-25 04:41:00	Don't kid yourself that most US consumers have much choice through competition. "If America lived in a world of real competition among broadband providers, there would be little reason to worry about such deals. But it does not live in that world. In the US, at least, broadband competition is dying. There are fewer competitors offering consumers broadband connectivity today than there were just six years ago. The median consumer has a choice between just two broadband providers. Four companies account for a majority of all consumer broadband; 10 account for 83 per cent of the market." www.ft.com	PaulD (232)
560597	2007-06-25 11:33:00	bugger.....	motorbyclist (188)
560598	2007-06-25 11:42:00	now i'm with macguy on this one, my old workplace couldn't get broadband and they are only 800m down the road from me, putting them at 5.7km away from the exchange - i'm 6.5 km away and get 1.4Mbit. so they have to put up with dodgy dialup and being signwriters actually find it faster to post cds/dvds with large files :groan:, and even then for really large files it works out faster (and ultimately cheaper) to send me on my motorbike into town rather than use nz broadband to upload files over 500mb at a pathetic 128k the stupidest thing it we're only 10 minutes away from central henderson (the "capital" suburb of west auckland) , and 1 minute away from suburbia. sure the people hundreds of km from civilisation would probably find wireless more economic, but 10km west of the wiatakere city council building broadband falls to pieces. hell it only takes 20 minutes to get to central auckland from here! oops, sorry bout the lack of capital letters, atleast my spelling is (mostly) bang on	motorbyclist (188)
560599	2007-06-26 05:51:00	U.S. lags behind leaders in Internet speed: www.latimes.com	zqwerty (97)
560600	2007-06-26 12:32:00	Please Register or Login The story you requested is available only to registered members. cut and paste? cbf signing up	motorbyclist (188)
560601	2007-06-26 13:47:00	Hmmm strange I didn't have to log in but I do now, try this one: www.latimes.com or: www.chicagotribune.com	zqwerty (97)
560602	2007-06-27 09:02:00	hrmm, perhaps the problem is that in countries like nz, us and aussie is that, compared to the likes of japan, our people are too spread out resulting in more cable per person and thus higher cost (and slower overall improvement).... just speculating....	motorbyclist (188)
560603	2007-06-27 09:11:00	hrmm, perhaps the problem is that in countries like nz, us and aussie is that, compared to the likes of japan, our people are too spread out resulting in more cable per person and thus higher cost (and slower overall improvement).... just speculating.... More like Telecoms mentality and the governments lack of teeth since 2000 or so. I saw the Campbell live interview with Teresa the other night. She was saying that the internet hadn't been invented when she started being CEO of Telecom (if i read it right). I seem to recall that she took over from Roderick Dean back in the late 90's. The internet has been available since about 1995 onwards and getting fairly mainstream by 1997 in NZ at least. In other words she is/was full of crap.	winmacguy (3367)
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