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Neilster -> RE: Nice...and fast d/l (11/8/2013 2:15:46 PM)
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I'm lucky to have 13mbps fiber optic service (out in the middle of nowhere, too!) so the download took approximately thirty minutes. I remember downloading a patch for WITP back in '04 over a 56K modem. I had to stand watch near the land line phone for hours to make sure no one picked up the handset! Those were NOT the days.
When I was in the Air Force in the late 90s I was living on base. It's fair to say the RAAF were a bit behind the telecommunications curve when it came to on-base accommodation and we only had one phone in the corridor of each floor.
I managed to jury-rig a phone line together that involved twisting copper line together from some ancient junction box and a ridiculously long cable that had to go under carpet and up walls etc. The phone company guy couldn't believe it actually worked but it was very handy to have my own phone. It also meant I could get dial-up but it was ridiculously slow because of the above and apparently it also had to go through some dodgy PABX system or something.
I think it maxed out at 1.7Kb/second! I can remember downloading a 50Mb animation and it took about 13 hours. Why did I bother? [8|]
I'm looking forward to having the National Broadband Network. The street-work and optical splitter hardware has been done for my apartment building so I think some dude just has to press ENTER, I contact my internet provider and someone comes drills a hole in my apartment wall and puts a box inside that's connected to the optical splitter.
Luckily the previous government decided to include Tasmania at the start the project because they lost the election and the whole "fibre to the home" thing may only be continued as "fibre to the node" for any areas not already finished.
So you'll get blazing fast optical fibre to the end of your street and then a young lad in knickerbockers and a flat cap will deliver your data to your house by hand on a single speed bicycle [:'(]
No thankyou. I'll be making sure I live in one of the completed areas.
Cheers, Neilster
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