Once again the flailing Australian National Broadband Network is in the news with a couple in Melbourne being quoted up to 1.2 million dollars to connect to the NBN. The primary reason for this is the the house in question is seven kilometres of fibre would be needed to connect the property. With the copper network being switched off around Australian, even in places where it is still viable, the only option is to switch to the NBN unless a competing network already exists. The NBN has stated that it can cost $30,000 to run fibre for a "few hundred metres". It is getting to the point where it can be cheaper just to move house if the internet is bad.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Shire on Thursday June 14 2018, @03:42PM (2 children)
Mr Stewart said the service has been "terrible".
"We're getting 25-30 megabits on a 50-megabit service at best. The average is between nine and 20 megabits per second," he said.
"In my work I connect to client sites and do remote work."
Seriously? This guy does remote work that exceeds 9mb/s ? I do multiple site remote work and monitoring too and I have yet to see it approach 1mb/s.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:38PM (1 child)
to be fair, if you pay for 50 and you get 9, service is objectively "terrible".
(Score: 2) by The Shire on Friday June 15 2018, @03:26AM
"Up to 50mb/s" covers a range of speeds down to and including zero.