It’s soooo FaFaFAssttt that my miiiiiiind is overloading my fiiiiinggggers and I keep typing too muccch at once and then my thoughhhhhts come out as a bluuuuurrrrr and als;dkfj;alkjsd ;klasjdf lkjasdeiihja dsfasjerasdfiasdkfj alksedjrlkaje asdflkjads flkajer;iasoduifiox vfioadfoijaseoir jaoisdfj oaisdf and then I have to slow down agaaaain to caaattcch up and then iasdlkfja;lksdjf;laksdjf;lk jae;jkr sda;fi j;it happens all over again.
The event is for the symbolic turning on of the Library’s NBN connection. The PM was supposed to be there but a late change means Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be doing the honours. It is due to start at 10:30, although I hear he may be challenged to get there by then as he was giving a keynote in town moments ago.
The NBN crews have been incredibly busy all over the place, working through Xmas to boot. Hanging out for my letter…
Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
If you don’t care about speed and volume, then get a wireless card.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
Absolute bollocks.
Was connected on Wednesday (after NBNCo equipment failures meant return tech visits). Speed is fantastic and our plan is $90/month which includes 200GB download without peak times plus all home phone calls bar international and 1300 numbers, with the first 6 months half price.
There’s other cheaper plans than that. Helps if you don’t MSU
The event is for the symbolic turning on of the Library’s NBN connection. The PM was supposed to be there but a late change means Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be doing the honours. It is due to start at 10:30, although I hear he may be challenged to get there by then as he was giving a keynote in town moments ago.
The NBN crews have been incredibly busy all over the place, working through Xmas to boot. Hanging out for my letter…
Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
Written and spoken by a Greens member with colleagues who prop up the Labor government.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
The problem is $20 a month doesn’t cover the connection costs. A quick search on http://www.whirlpool.net.au shows there is a $35 plan with exetel and $39 plan with internode. But as suggested if you don’t need it then a wireless/3G solution would be fine.
The thing is there are plenty of applications that will soon use the infrastructure.
The event is for the symbolic turning on of the Library’s NBN connection. The PM was supposed to be there but a late change means Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be doing the honours. It is due to start at 10:30, although I hear he may be challenged to get there by then as he was giving a keynote in town moments ago.
The NBN crews have been incredibly busy all over the place, working through Xmas to boot. Hanging out for my letter…
Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
Written and spoken by a Greens member with colleagues who prop up the Labor government.
But there is a lot of truth in this. My ideological stance is provide tools to people to be creative and create business. This idea of saving coal miners jobs etc etc, is only a patchwork fix for an economy, that needs to diversify. The notion of throwing money out to people isn’t as productive.
I used to think that an unemployed person had access to training, surely funding the re-education of an unemployed person is better than, continually funding their welfare…. Yet the system doesn’t seem to work like that…
Still I can only hope if the coalition wins they’ll continue the NBN as is rather than put in a federal government version of the GDE one lane highway.
The event is for the symbolic turning on of the Library’s NBN connection. The PM was supposed to be there but a late change means Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be doing the honours. It is due to start at 10:30, although I hear he may be challenged to get there by then as he was giving a keynote in town moments ago.
The NBN crews have been incredibly busy all over the place, working through Xmas to boot. Hanging out for my letter…
Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
Written and spoken by a Greens member with colleagues who prop up the Labor government.
Written by a Gungahlin resident who’s put up with crap Telstra service for years and desparately wants to see this installed – for us and all the nation, rather than be skewered into a half-done mess by Abbott. You can disagree about whether the solution is right, but don’t be questioning my motives.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
From the Alan Jones school of “who needs facts when you can just make s*** up”.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
From the Alan Jones school of “who needs facts when you can just make s*** up”.
Oh wait – that’s ACTUALLY CHEAPER… And faster. And better.
Now, you were saying?
I don’t have a home phone. Why would I pay for a home phone when I pay for a mobile phone? Cheapest is $50 a month for 10GB/10GB at 12mbps… More than i’m willing to pay.
I guess mobile broadband it is, or just live without the internet at home which I have done for a while now. House is in Springbank Rise, move in shortly. Was kind of hoping the NBN meant no line rental and no premiums for a “naked” plan. Guess not. Ah well.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
From the Alan Jones school of “who needs facts when you can just make s*** up”.
Oh wait – that’s ACTUALLY CHEAPER… And faster. And better.
Now, you were saying?
Easy Al, easy. Some people still look at it as an Internet service, and fail to make one of the knowledge leaps you’ve taken for granted being close to the issue for a while – that the NBN will deliver BOTH phone and Internet services.
Will admit that penny only dropped for me lately when I was looking at a plan I’d be happy with and was dismayed at the $75-85 per month cost before I realized I should be adding my line rental on home phone ($30 per month) to my internet cost ($50 per month).
Target on shopping was 200gb download allowance and still tossing up between 25/5 and 50/20 speeds.
Solidarity: Nicholls is hooked to the Hall exchange I believe, rather than the Crace one the rest of us are through. I don’t recall what the issue was with Hall, but there are delays, as mentioned by NBN Co at a recent GCC meeting.
Guess Casey was on the cusp of development – too soon to NBN to be bothered with Transact (like Crace has). Ultimately it will all be done and worth the wait – being still way ahead of most of the rest of the country.
…Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand much faster pr0n!
Why do people always forget to say that?
Unless, of course, “movie downloads” is a euphemism.
I guess mobile broadband it is, or just live without the internet at home which I have done for a while now. House is in Springbank Rise, move in shortly. Was kind of hoping the NBN meant no line rental and no premiums for a “naked” plan. Guess not. Ah well.
What are you talking about? A standard NBN plan is a naked plan. No line rental? So you expect your connection to the network to be free?
Even current ADSL “naked” plans include line rental – it’s just a more hidden component. When you’re on a naked plan, your ISP still has to pay money to Telstra to provide a service over the copper running to your house. It’s just a piece of copper without the voice component activated. The NBN is exactly the same thing – except it’s fibre instead. ISP plans include the fixed fee they need to pay to NBNCo to provide a service over the fibre, plus their own costs to deliver the data
Exetel have a plan at 12Mbps down / 1Mbps up, with a 50GB data limit, for $35 a month.
In comparison, the cheapest ADSL plan I can find costs $9.99 a month. To access it, you would need to be also paying line rental, so add another $25-30 a month on top of that.
Your desire to have a $20 a month plan is never going to happen – not under the NBN, or any other alternatives. If you want internet at home, you need to accept that the price you have in mind is completely unrealistic.
We’re kicking off a medical monitoring business in the next month or so that will be based in Gunners and is made possible by the NBN.
It will cut costs to the consumer and government and provide far superior outcomes to people on medical and social delivery. This type of technology and service delivery will make the $40 billion cost of installation look like chickenfeed.
We’re kicking off a medical monitoring business in the next month or so that will be based in Gunners and is made possible by the NBN.
It will cut costs to the consumer and government and provide far superior outcomes to people on medical and social delivery. This type of technology and service delivery will make the $40 billion cost of installation look like chickenfeed.
That’s what I’m talking about. Brand new opportunities.
I guess mobile broadband it is, or just live without the internet at home which I have done for a while now. House is in Springbank Rise, move in shortly. Was kind of hoping the NBN meant no line rental and no premiums for a “naked” plan. Guess not. Ah well.
What are you talking about? A standard NBN plan is a naked plan. No line rental? So you expect your connection to the network to be free?
Even current ADSL “naked” plans include line rental – it’s just a more hidden component. When you’re on a naked plan, your ISP still has to pay money to Telstra to provide a service over the copper running to your house. It’s just a piece of copper without the voice component activated. The NBN is exactly the same thing – except it’s fibre instead. ISP plans include the fixed fee they need to pay to NBNCo to provide a service over the fibre, plus their own costs to deliver the data
Exetel have a plan at 12Mbps down / 1Mbps up, with a 50GB data limit, for $35 a month.
In comparison, the cheapest ADSL plan I can find costs $9.99 a month. To access it, you would need to be also paying line rental, so add another $25-30 a month on top of that.
Your desire to have a $20 a month plan is never going to happen – not under the NBN, or any other alternatives. If you want internet at home, you need to accept that the price you have in mind is completely unrealistic.
Yeah but the thing is that there were big promises that the NBN would make Australia leaders when it comes to internet and all that. Paying $20 a month for a 12mbit connection is crazy talk in some countries.
That’s what I’m talking about. Brand new opportunities.
Cut costs to the consumer????? how/where???
Also remember someone is paying the $40 Billion, so I can’t see how it is cutting costs.
I am a fan of super fast internet, but don’t feed me bullshyt and say it is cheaper …..
Nothing that costs $40 Billion will ever be cheaper to the taxpayer and/or end consumer.
Yeah but the thing is that there were big promises that the NBN would make Australia leaders when it comes to internet and all that. Paying $20 a month for a 12mbit connection is crazy talk in some countries.
And it will make Australia leaders – but just because we will compare well in terms of connectivity, it doesn’t immediately follow that we must also compare well in terms of price. Comparing prices here, with a rollout that is spread over tens of thousands of km’s, against places like Singapore, Japan or Korea with vastly higher population densities, is just not realistic.
We also have the disadvantage that a large percentage of the content we access is hosted overseas – so our ISP’s also have to pay to use the submarine cables that connect us to the rest of the world. Prices to access data across them have come down in recent years, as new cables have come on line and more competition has been introduced, but it’s still more expensive for an ISP to bring in data hosted in the USA than it is data hosted in Sydney. That’s a big part of the reason why truly ‘unlimited’ plans – rather than ‘unlimited *’ – have never really taken off in Australia.
I’m hoping that once the NBN is in, and we have a lot of people with fast connections, that more and more content will be available locally, leading to decreased costs on ISP’s.
Meanwhile, the Japanese are paying $15 for a single sirloin steak… That’s crazy talk to me.
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It’s soooo FaFaFAssttt that my miiiiiiind is overloading my fiiiiinggggers and I keep typing too muccch at once and then my thoughhhhhts come out as a bluuuuurrrrr and als;dkfj;alkjsd ;klasjdf lkjasdeiihja dsfasjerasdfiasdkfj alksedjrlkaje asdflkjads flkajer;iasoduifiox vfioadfoijaseoir jaoisdfj oaisdf and then I have to slow down agaaaain to caaattcch up and then iasdlkfja;lksdjf;laksdjf;lk jae;jkr sda;fi j;it happens all over again.
What a ride this NBN thingy is!
Phew….
Senator Humphries is noting the ISPs are getting paid $108 to sign customers up.
Might be worth asking for a cut!
The event is for the symbolic turning on of the Library’s NBN connection. The PM was supposed to be there but a late change means Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be doing the honours. It is due to start at 10:30, although I hear he may be challenged to get there by then as he was giving a keynote in town moments ago.
The NBN crews have been incredibly busy all over the place, working through Xmas to boot. Hanging out for my letter…
Was looking at a job vacancy today with Canadian science communications video production group Minute Physics that could be based anywhere – as long as you have a really good connection…
Last week I was talking with a business in Adelaide who is in an area already connected to NBN – his business is a new web television network. Inconceivable business model on ADSL.
Those are the sort of opportunities NBN will open up. It is not all about movie downloads.
$4.50 a month off of a 24 month contract (assuming the ISP’s pass it through). Big deal. Prices start at $49.95 a month.
Abbott confirmed coalition policy is to retain the NBN, but as a FTTN network yesterday.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/01/31/abbot-confirms-coalition-fttn-policy-hints-turnbull-will-be-comms-minister/
So that’s what taking over the NBN and getting it done sooner and at less cost means – i.e. doing half the job.
There are no plans for light users, I want to pay $20 a month or less for enough data to browse a few pages here and there, unfortunately they’re all megapseed 200GB plans for $70 a month. I don’t want to pay that.
johnboy said :
That’s a fair cut from 511,000 to 54,000
Al?
Solidarity said :
+1
Solidarity said :
If you don’t care about speed and volume, then get a wireless card.
Solidarity said :
Absolute bollocks.
Was connected on Wednesday (after NBNCo equipment failures meant return tech visits). Speed is fantastic and our plan is $90/month which includes 200GB download without peak times plus all home phone calls bar international and 1300 numbers, with the first 6 months half price.
There’s other cheaper plans than that. Helps if you don’t MSU
Gungahlin Al said :
Written and spoken by a Greens member with colleagues who prop up the Labor government.
Solidarity said :
The problem is $20 a month doesn’t cover the connection costs. A quick search on http://www.whirlpool.net.au shows there is a $35 plan with exetel and $39 plan with internode. But as suggested if you don’t need it then a wireless/3G solution would be fine.
The thing is there are plenty of applications that will soon use the infrastructure.
Roundhead89 said :
But there is a lot of truth in this. My ideological stance is provide tools to people to be creative and create business. This idea of saving coal miners jobs etc etc, is only a patchwork fix for an economy, that needs to diversify. The notion of throwing money out to people isn’t as productive.
I used to think that an unemployed person had access to training, surely funding the re-education of an unemployed person is better than, continually funding their welfare…. Yet the system doesn’t seem to work like that…
Still I can only hope if the coalition wins they’ll continue the NBN as is rather than put in a federal government version of the GDE one lane highway.
Roundhead89 said :
Written by a Gungahlin resident who’s put up with crap Telstra service for years and desparately wants to see this installed – for us and all the nation, rather than be skewered into a half-done mess by Abbott. You can disagree about whether the solution is right, but don’t be questioning my motives.
Jerk. Hiding behind anonymity jerk.
Solidarity said :
From the Alan Jones school of “who needs facts when you can just make s*** up”.
iinet: http://www.iinet.net.au/nbn/nbn-plan-residential.html
$50pm NBN base account, plus $10 for voice. Stuff all difference from your $35pm copper line plus base web access $30: http://www.telstra.com.au/internet/home-broadband-bigpond-elite-plans/
Oh wait – that’s ACTUALLY CHEAPER… And faster. And better.
Now, you were saying?
wah wah wah I want cheap internet and the gummint isn’t doing everything for me wah wah wah
Gungahlin Al said :
I don’t have a home phone. Why would I pay for a home phone when I pay for a mobile phone? Cheapest is $50 a month for 10GB/10GB at 12mbps… More than i’m willing to pay.
I guess mobile broadband it is, or just live without the internet at home which I have done for a while now. House is in Springbank Rise, move in shortly. Was kind of hoping the NBN meant no line rental and no premiums for a “naked” plan. Guess not. Ah well.
Gungahlin Al said :
Also just released the irony in your first line to that reply.
Gungahlin Al said :
Easy Al, easy. Some people still look at it as an Internet service, and fail to make one of the knowledge leaps you’ve taken for granted being close to the issue for a while – that the NBN will deliver BOTH phone and Internet services.
Will admit that penny only dropped for me lately when I was looking at a plan I’d be happy with and was dismayed at the $75-85 per month cost before I realized I should be adding my line rental on home phone ($30 per month) to my internet cost ($50 per month).
Target on shopping was 200gb download allowance and still tossing up between 25/5 and 50/20 speeds.
Aaand looks like Casey doesn’t get it now or anytime soon anyway
Guess i’ll quit my yammerin’
Fair ’nuff Mothy. Winding back.
Solidarity: Nicholls is hooked to the Hall exchange I believe, rather than the Crace one the rest of us are through. I don’t recall what the issue was with Hall, but there are delays, as mentioned by NBN Co at a recent GCC meeting.
Guess Casey was on the cusp of development – too soon to NBN to be bothered with Transact (like Crace has). Ultimately it will all be done and worth the wait – being still way ahead of most of the rest of the country.
Gungahlin Al said :
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand much faster pr0n!
Why do people always forget to say that?
Unless, of course, “movie downloads” is a euphemism.
Solidarity said :
What are you talking about? A standard NBN plan is a naked plan. No line rental? So you expect your connection to the network to be free?
Even current ADSL “naked” plans include line rental – it’s just a more hidden component. When you’re on a naked plan, your ISP still has to pay money to Telstra to provide a service over the copper running to your house. It’s just a piece of copper without the voice component activated. The NBN is exactly the same thing – except it’s fibre instead. ISP plans include the fixed fee they need to pay to NBNCo to provide a service over the fibre, plus their own costs to deliver the data
Exetel have a plan at 12Mbps down / 1Mbps up, with a 50GB data limit, for $35 a month.
In comparison, the cheapest ADSL plan I can find costs $9.99 a month. To access it, you would need to be also paying line rental, so add another $25-30 a month on top of that.
Your desire to have a $20 a month plan is never going to happen – not under the NBN, or any other alternatives. If you want internet at home, you need to accept that the price you have in mind is completely unrealistic.
We’re kicking off a medical monitoring business in the next month or so that will be based in Gunners and is made possible by the NBN.
It will cut costs to the consumer and government and provide far superior outcomes to people on medical and social delivery. This type of technology and service delivery will make the $40 billion cost of installation look like chickenfeed.
rosscoact said :
That’s what I’m talking about. Brand new opportunities.
thatsnotme said :
Yeah but the thing is that there were big promises that the NBN would make Australia leaders when it comes to internet and all that. Paying $20 a month for a 12mbit connection is crazy talk in some countries.
I wonder if congestion for people who are stuck on ADSL for a while longer will decrease, as traffic is moved across to the new network?
Solidarity said :
And what country do you live in?
Gungahlin Al said :
Cut costs to the consumer????? how/where???
Also remember someone is paying the $40 Billion, so I can’t see how it is cutting costs.
I am a fan of super fast internet, but don’t feed me bullshyt and say it is cheaper …..
Nothing that costs $40 Billion will ever be cheaper to the taxpayer and/or end consumer.
Solidarity said :
And it will make Australia leaders – but just because we will compare well in terms of connectivity, it doesn’t immediately follow that we must also compare well in terms of price. Comparing prices here, with a rollout that is spread over tens of thousands of km’s, against places like Singapore, Japan or Korea with vastly higher population densities, is just not realistic.
We also have the disadvantage that a large percentage of the content we access is hosted overseas – so our ISP’s also have to pay to use the submarine cables that connect us to the rest of the world. Prices to access data across them have come down in recent years, as new cables have come on line and more competition has been introduced, but it’s still more expensive for an ISP to bring in data hosted in the USA than it is data hosted in Sydney. That’s a big part of the reason why truly ‘unlimited’ plans – rather than ‘unlimited *’ – have never really taken off in Australia.
I’m hoping that once the NBN is in, and we have a lot of people with fast connections, that more and more content will be available locally, leading to decreased costs on ISP’s.
Meanwhile, the Japanese are paying $15 for a single sirloin steak… That’s crazy talk to me.