Thursday, November 29, 2007

More Australian Broadband Woes

Well just when I thought I was one step closer to obtaining my goal of "higher" speed broadband, I discover that Australia does not have the backbone capacity to handle the demand.

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Seems that unless the Australian government is prepared to invest a similar amount in broadband infrastructure we could very well end up with network gridlock.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Will Australia Get Its Fibre?

Back in March of this year the Australian Labor Party said it would invest AU$4.7 billion in a new national fibre broadband network if it won the federal election.

It's now been two days since the ALP was voted into government and a lot of Australians (including myself) are eagerly waiting to see if this promise is kept. The plan was to roll-out fibre to the node(FTTN) which should provide broadband speeds of a minimum of 12Mbps to 98 percent of Australian population which is 4 times what I get today out of my ADSL2 connection.

Deciding to Blog

After years of finding excuses not the blog, I have finally decided that it is probably a good thing. At a minimum it should allow me to brain dump my thoughts, and purge the cache from time to time.

So if you are into VoIP, Facebook and most things technical then be sure to drop in from time to time.