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| Thread ID: 71284 | 2006-08-01 06:03:00 | Inhouse report confirms crapiness of Telecom network | Chris Keall (10417) | Press F1 |
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| 475128 | 2006-08-01 06:03:00 | Dish here (blogs.pcworld.co.nz). | Chris Keall (10417) | ||
| 475129 | 2006-08-01 06:13:00 | But it's a telephone system. It has always been a telephone system. It was designed to handle 300-3400 Hz, which is what's needed for reasonable speech quality. For those who want to use data, the lines are capable of 2400 baud. What more could anyone want? :D For those who do want more, it would indeed be possible to provide an optical fibre network, with huge bandwidth available. To every house, if required. BUT IT WOULD COST. Are you all prepared to pay what that would cost? One company started laying optical fibre in Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. They ran out of money before they ran out of streets to run the cables in. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 475130 | 2006-08-03 08:41:00 | OK..Must be 1 Km from the exchange... How is that going to stay relevant? I wonder if that takes into account that telecom are cutting down to 17 exchanges, and running fiber to distribution points? I wish people realize that soon they will be running with less than1Km of copper before it gets to a little white cabinet and then to something faster. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 475131 | 2006-08-03 10:35:00 | I guess people will 'realise' as soon as they see cabinets. Always another three months away .... | Chris Keall (10417) | ||
| 475132 | 2006-08-03 12:30:00 | I guess people will 'realize' as soon as they see cabinets. Always another three months away ....They're already all over the south Island, plenty in rural areas it seems as well as the built up ones.... Maybe they'll migrate up to AK soon? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 475133 | 2006-08-03 21:52:00 | Not yet. I've been trying to get on Telecom's ADSL2+ trial for a while (which necessitates a cabinet, given my home's location). Ditto for two other reviewers | Chris Keall (10417) | ||
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