[LINK] NBN pricing may dull broadband benefits: economist

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:11 AM 12/03/2013, Gordon Keith wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:38:02 AM Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > Gordon, are you sure the cheapest is 1Mb/sec?? That's awfully slow.
> > I'm getting 8Mbps on ADSL. Maybe you meant 10? I sure wouldn't pay
> > $30/mo for 1Mbps.
>
>Is that 8Mbps up and down?

8 max down, upload is much lower speed, asymmetrical. Speeds of 
course vary on download based on network congestion between me and 
the source server. Downloads from the Internode mirror are at the 
highest speeds. But that isn't consistent across all services, which 
is why the streaming can be laggy still. But it's better than it used 
to be, and also having a faster laptop chip helped (i5).


>I get 12 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up, 30 GB data and VOIP phone service for
>$50/month.

Ah, you left out the 2 in 12 in your first post. That's much better. 
But the price isn't that much better than for the service/price I get 
now.  VOIP would do away with the $25/mo to Telstra, though.


>There was a discussion on link a short while ago about the asymmetry of
>broadband speeds and producer/consumer model of internet usage. It struck me
>that the best way to encourage a net designed for people to produce their own
>content is to quote broadband speeds in terms of the slowest rather than the
>fastest side of the link. I'm putting that idea in practice.

AHHHHHH, now I get it. Problem is that most people won't know that's 
what you're doing for doing comparisons. That's why I was confused.

Jan


>Regards
>Gordon


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