More NBN connections for Gungahlin

rosscoact said :

Yet people seem to enjoy living there. Go figure.

It’s the people that make it what it is. Crap planning and infrastructure still sucks, though.

Yet people seem to enjoy living there. Go figure.

gungahlin is such a joke of town planning, over populated and under provisioned from the start, who on earth designed the spaghetti junction roads? I never quite figured out how eastern amaroo residents were actually meant to get into the town center, it seemed like the main route went through a series of tiny back streets. Is horse park ever going to be finished?

ngunnawal is a ghetto, terrible crime stats, and how often do those shops get trashed Conroy must really love bogans, unleashing the gunners lads is sure to raise the standard of internet commentary.

Conroy on NBN delays:

” We are concentrating on the learnings …. to help make sure the delays are kept to a minimum” …

Any news on how the up-to-two-year delays will affect Canberra connections?

I live in one of those maps as the first to be provisioned.

We tried to get ADSL from Telatra and they just said sorry too far away from the exchange, can’t help you.

Finally got ADSL from iprimus but I get about 1-1.5 mbps.

I am happy to keep the riotact informed on progress if I see any as i’ll be signing up straight away.

hotwaterservice said :

“The lack of broadband has meant I could not easily develop a home-based Internet dependent business for over a decade.

Take heart, now you have NBN, you can finally develop your home based business and make over $736/hr as all the email scams claim… It is a bit rich to claim you cannot start an internet-based business simply because you dont have home internet.

On a similarly related note, what is the coverage of longreach like in Gungahlin? We recently switched to Longreach broadband and receive much better service than previously on cable, it took 2hr to setup within a week of us signing up as a new customer. Gungahlin residents seem to be complaining a lot about the poor service of Telstra, when so many other companies seem to be offering comparable services (albeit mostly via wireless)

When will the rest of Canberra get NBN? I am sick of wasting 30 mins on downloading movies.LOL

As our GCC meetings have previously been advised, the first sites were based entirely on engineering considerations, not perceived “need”. Sorry Hotwaterservice. But as also advised to us, once they start, they will keep going through all of Gungahlin and then through all of Canberra. They are already out there pking their heads down pits and stuff.

So this week’s announcement is just formalising what NBN Co have already told a recent GCC meeting with about 120 people attending. Good to have it formalised, and with the PM’s seal, though!

I’m in Harrison and hanging out for it too, to be able to tell Telstra what they can do with their non-naked ADSL and ever-increasing mandatory landline fee.

We were hoping that NBN Co would be back to us at our November meeting but it looks like that will be pushed back to the one on 14 December. Keep an eye out through http://www.facebook.com/gungahlin for updates.

Thoroughly Smashed said :

johnboy said :

See how much you like that network when Stephen Conroy blacks out the undesirable content from it.

The NBN and any hypothetical internet filtering are different layers of infrastructure and not at all related.

And, I should also say, entirely different pieces of legislation.

johnboy said :

See how much you like that network when Stephen Conroy blacks out the undesirable content from it.

The NBN and any hypothetical internet filtering are different layers of infrastructure and not at all related.