[LINK] web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff

[Andy Farkas]

On 08/31/15 21:39, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:19:25PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
>> VoIP over FW works ok (latency is negligible). I set it up for someone
>> last week.
> what you should have said there is that VOIP over FW *can* work OK.
>
> when the wifi gets congested, though, congestion-related latency will
> cause it to for VOIP even worse than it sucks for everything else....and
> that is, of course, the problem with wireless compared to fibre or even
> copper - it just doesn't scale to the number of users that a national
> broadband network is going to have.

I'm in rural Queensland. Fibre is not an option.

> it's fine for up to a few dozens of users, but not for hundreds or
> thousands within range of the wifi access point....

Currently 281 subscribers on the tower:

  http://www.mynbn.info/rollout/4BBE-51-10-STHB

I don't think there will be many more (not that many people live
out here).

-andyf