I've spent the best part of 18 months telecommuting - the company's servers are in Sydney while I am in Brisbane - connection is over an IPSec VPN - it's just like being at a desk in the office.
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I find it hard to think about the NBN when it takes me 30 minutes to get from Padstow to Bankstown in morning peak traffic-and that's common to all of Sydney
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Doing the same job in Sydney, before I moved to Brisbane, my daily commute was 1h 35m in each direction on public transport (there was no prospect of driving since there was no parking within cooee of the office), except if I missed a tight connection when it would add an extra 45 to 60 minutes, depending on when I got away.
The awful commute is one of the reasons why I moved to Brisbane.
Anything that gets traffic off the roads is a good thing - not just from the point of view of congestion and commute times, but also smog and greenhouse gases, cost, time saved (better spent with kids/loved ones), reduced stress, etc.
IMVHO, one of the biggest failings with the way the NBN was managed was the marketing - much of the message I recall was about home subscriber download speeds ... touted as good for movies and such. The NBN is so much more, and I think the apparent assumption that the electorate wouldn't understand the main benefits was shortsighted.