[LINK] Considering Fibre to the Home [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Matthew Sullivan]

Carl Makin wrote:
> In a bureaucratic stuffup of enormous dimensions, Gungahlin (a 
> northern satellite city of Canberra) was originally supposed to be a 
> Telstra "fibre showcase" area with a "modern" fibre network for 
> "advanced communications", however Telstra pulled out late in the 
> area's development and the area now has the worst communications 
> infrastructure around.  Pretty much everyone is on a RIM and ADSL 1 is 
> impossible in many places.  I know a few IT guys who purchased a house 
> out there for the "advanced communications system" and are now pretty 
> bitter about it.

RIMs are not all that bad - I'm 8M/384k on a RIM in Dunlop.  At 600m 
from the RIM to the termination point, and fibre from the RIM to Melba 
exchange, it is *very* reliable....  That said, it took a lot of 
pestering and a lodged complaint before they got their backsides into 
gear, but it's all working now.

/ Mat