[LINK] FTTP soon normal

[Paul Brooks]

On 29/04/2014 8:37 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 28/04/14 09:32, Richard Archer wrote:
>
>> Sorry to be a spoil sport, but your story about networking inside the
>> premises has nothing to do with FTTP nor FTTN. ...
> Sorry to disagree, but why spend billions of dollars getting high speed 
> broadband up to people's homes, if you can't then get it the last few 
> metres inside, for them to actually be able to use?
>
> The debate has been about if the fibre should be terminated in the 
> street (FTTN), or run an extra tens of metres to the home (FTTP). The 
> last few few metres within the home has been ignored in this discussion. 
> If householders can't or wont cable this last bit at high speed, then 
> perhaps we have been debating the wrong issue.
Thats just silly Tom. Are we going to buy everyone a shiny new PC with a gigabit
ethernet port just because they have a NBN connection but are using it from a 7 year
old laptop? No we aren't.

By at least getting it to the wall, you turn it from a large-scale engineering issue
to a personal preference and resources issue that can be solved by each household
according to their means and knowledge.
We don't need to specify the internal arrangements any more than we need to wring our
hands that some people might be using older equipment that might not be able to stress
out the connection.

Some people could afford 9600bps modems when they came out, others were happy to
continue using their 2400bps and 1200/75 bps units until they could each update on
their own terms, or remain happy with what they had. The device was the bottleneck,
and could be updated individually to suit.
Over the past broadband years, the network external to the users control became the
bottleneck.
This 'debate' and infrastructure investment removes the bottleneck from a location
where the individual can't influence it, and allows their own equipment and
arrangements they can control and update to become the new bottleneck again. This is a
good thing.
And Robin's correct, it has nothing to do with the external network being FTTN or FTTP
or wireless or whatever. In-home distribution is a different problem.

While the inhome network distribution is the bottleneck, then we've done a good thing
with the external network.

P.