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.