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Originally Posted by Wavytone
In that case you share a fibre with about 10 neighbours. Wait till your neighbourhood fills up and watch the speed plummet, especially with a few teenagers downloading torrents 24 x 7.
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That's not really an issue if you're on FTTP, only with the various other technologies provided under the Multi-Technology Mix that the LNP version of the NBN is providing.
On GPON FTTP, each fibre supports a maximum of 32 residences (typically fewer). The fibre has a nominal bandwidth of 2.5 Gbps (each way - up and down), which works out at around 77 Mbps per premises (upload and download simultaneously), assuming all 32 users are maxing out their lines at once. You'd have to live in an apartment block full of hard-core torrenters to see a blip on a 100 Mbps FTTP connection.
On FTTN, each node shares a fibre typically across a couple of hundred houses, and can support up to a maximum of 384 per node. You've got the double-whammy of sharing the same bandwidth with a lot more residences AND the technological speed limits of the "last mile" of copper (probably a couple of hundred metres in most cases).
While the NBN only offers 100 / 40 Mbps as the current top tier, FTTP can scale to Gbps speeds (and beyond) without any major upgrades in the network. (Gbps FTTP is already available as a commercial product through much of Asia and in New Zealand for example.) FTTN can't even deliver 100 / 40 Mbps speeds to most residences (because of the length of copper line), and doesn't offer an upgrade path to Gbps speeds.
Sends your complaints to Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott.