[LINK] NBN Wireless?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Wed Feb 6 20:06:43 AEDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 03:53 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Briefly, as one of many Aussies whose country town does not crack the NBN
> required minimum number for cable we will apparently receive NBN wireless.

Does that mean that Telstra will rip out copper in areas getting NBN
wireless?!? Say it isn't so!

> Whatever, one does wonder what will happen. Especially as today the good
> Senator claims that NBN services will be faster than metro-centre ADSL2+

Only if they have terrestrial backhaul. Otherwise we will lose a slow
low-latency system in favour of a fast, high-latency system. This is a
step backwards for anyone who required any kind of interactive
performance.

Regards, K.

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