The day has come…! I can finally get something faster than 1.5Mbit/s at home. I have applied for the 8Mbit/s upgrade with Internode and I will be leeching Linux ISOs as soon as they go to air in the US faster than ever!!
Posts Tagged Broadband
I just posted this comment at Whirlpool at about Telstra's proposed "Fibre to the Node" network.
Thorpiedo wrote:
Some of Telstra's proposals are outrageous, but some (i.e. FTTN) would solve many problems we currently face with the availability of higher-speed broadband in this country.
Not really. Telstra has said its FTTN network will cover five capital cities only… it will have nowhere near the reach that the current copper network does.
Now, if you're talking merely about availability of HIGHER-speed broadband (>1.5Mbit/s), then yes, but that is just the carrot that Telstra is using to lure the donkey… the donkey being the government and the voters, and the outcome being Telstra being able to lock out competitors from viably offering broadband over the last mile copper network.
The truth is that Telstra doesn't need to roll out fibre in order to offer higher speed broadband. It could do so today by removing the 1.5Mbit/s speed limitation on its ADSL1 service. Many people would be perfectly happy with 8Mbit/s.
Warming up to WiMax
Nov 9
I just posted a review of Unwired's new PCMCIA card on APCMag.com. (My incessant nagging to get a look at one of these finally paid off!)
I'm looking forward to the day my laptop has WiMax built in and can access wireless broadband as easily as WiFi, but the standard is yet to be finalised on paper, and we’ll be lucky to see the first products this side of 2007.
Unwired's new PCMCIA card comes close to the “WiMax ideal  plug it in, and Windows recognises it as a WiFi card and immediately connects to the wide area broadband network.
It's not WiFi though – it's running Unwired's WiMax-like Navini Ripwave protocol. There are no heinous proprietory login clients to run though, which means it's deliciously simple and reliable.
The in depth review is here.
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