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Yes louwai
That email is so right. The trouble is that no one in government either side has any idea what internet speed is all about. Everyone seems to think that they will get 100Mb/s and be able to watch TV on line as well as instant downloads of video etc if a fibre optics/NBN is supplied.
If it ever gets off the ground the cost will be much more than the $40B dollars budget and it will not deliver anything even approaching the speeds contemplated due to the bandwidth available being only a small fraction of the amount required to service the number of connections required.
From a practical standpoint I have ADSL 2 and have a theoretical speed of around 20Mb/s or download speeds of 2MB/s. I actually get a maximum of 650KB/s and realise this on many downloads of data. But the sites that I usually visit actually download slower than they did 10 years ago on dial up. Many is the time I have had to wait a minute or more to get a connection to a popular site.
I have used Telstra Next G at Wiruna and can get the same speeds there as I get at home on ADSL2.
Barry
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