[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Paul Brooks]

On 24/02/2016 11:11 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
>> Rod Tucker's info-graphic for The Conversation envisages a typical 
>> Australian home in 2020 having a tablet computer, a laptop, four 
>> smartphones and three TVs, all in use simultaneously: 
>> https://theconversation.com/infographic-how-fast-is-the-nbn-54392
> Hi Tom
>
> Rod's wrong (sorry mate). Go into JB HiFi and simply *look*: speakers, 
> games consoles, televisions, PVRs, blueray players all want internet. Even 
> the water systems in Bunnings want a wifi link, let alone the doorbells.  

Agreed. In addition, the traffic to/from all of Rod's devices is mediated, triggered
or controlled by people. He's completely missed the M2M background traffic sources
where no human interaction is required to trigger it. Periodic or continuous off-site
backups of computers/laptops, or NASs, software/firmware checks and updates from
everything, permanently streaming security cameras/nannycams. Four to six
laptops/desktops each downloading the same antivirus database updates hourly.

He's also missing games consoles, which trigger multi-gigabyte updates almost weekly,
and those updates aren't smoothed out by the average speed of video playback like a
video stream might be (17GB tonight, thankyou) - instead they attempt to occupy full
line-rate, whatever that might be, almost guaranteeing contention during those
minutes/hours.

P.

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