On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 05:10 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when Australia does get this fabled fibre-to-the-home, it still won't be symmetric. *sigh*
Fibre connections that are not symmetric...sure going out of the way that.
Kind of. The spec they're using (I've forgotten which one it is) supports a 2:1 ratio, I think the current maximum is supposed to be around 2.5Gb/s download and 1.25Gb/s upload. The plans being offered by the wholesaler (NBN Co.) to ISPs for resale are currently 25Mb/2Mb, 50Mb/4Mb and 100Mb/8Mb. I don't know how they expect to encourage local content like that, let alone local innovation, but that's what they're doing.
Local content as in ISP provided content?
Anyway, I've been drooling over the sort of connections that are only available in the corporate world here and in more civilised parts of the world for a long time. I don't really expect that to change now.
/me wonders if he should get started with the charges for corporate connections too...:-p
All HK ISPs are IPv6 connected. I wonder if I should get an IPv6 allocation for the school...nah, probably got other things to cook.