Let me first confess a personal interest. Presently I have Optus Cable with their fast option. I get 100mbs download and it is down about 2-3 hours every 2-3 months. So I am a happy camper and do not want to be pushed onto a rubbish slow NBN. (See panels at bottom of blog)With all that said I see this:The gap between NBN promise and realityby Jennifer Hewett Jul 19 2017 at 5:36 PM My internet speeds plummeted when I moved house recently. It didn't matter how expensive my broadband plan was, nor the fact I had only shifted a few blocks away.Rather than being connected to the internet through the hybrid fibre coaxial cable, my new street was still back on the old copper telephone lines.Adjustments to ADSL technology may have greatly improved speeds over copper lines but given the growing and massive demand for data, the result still seems like putting lipstick on an ageing pig.Nor is it as if Telstra is too interested in investing much to upgrade either cable or copper given their...
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