Internode connects its first household to NBN in Adelaide
- 10 September, 2012 09:03
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Internode has hooked up its first customers in Adelaide to the NBN.
Adelaide couple, Michael Siddall and Jacinta Warren, who live in the new Lakeside housing development in the city’s north, are the first Internode customers in the SA capital to connect to the NBN.
Michael learned in September last year that fibre-optic cabling for the National Broadband Network (NBN) was to run past the home he was building with fiancée Jacinta.
“I didn’t know I was getting the NBN until after we had started building,” Michael said. “After the builders put the frame up, my fiancée got an email about the NBN’s rollout plans, which excited me more than the frame going up on the house.”
Today, Michael and Jacinta live in their home at Lakeside, near Munno Para. It sports a 50 megabit-per-second NBN broadband service from Internode.
Michael said his NBN service was eight times faster than the ADSL broadband link he had at his previous home.
“It’s pretty fast,” he said. “Last night, I used it to download TechNet ISO [disk]images for some virtual machines I’m building. Normally that would take me about three or fours hours to do as these are 3.3-gigabyte files. With the NBN, I was able to download four of them in half an hour.
“That obviously saves me a lot of time, so it’s definitely a good thing for my work. Another benefit is it’s really fast at streaming tech videos about how to do things. The video is smooth and seamless - it works really well.”
Jacinta said the NBN made the Internet much faster for her when doing banking, Facebook, shopping and generally searching on the Web. “I haven’t really been on the computer a lot, so I’ve hooked my iPhone up to the service and that works a lot faster than it did before,” she said.
Internode’s first Adelaide NBN household comes just over a year since hooking up its first South Australian NBN customer, Raaj Menon, who lives in the country town of Willunga, south of Adelaide.
Michael Siddall said the NBN was also a life-saving tool - at least for his online game-playing.
“The NBN makes a real difference,” he explained. “I’m currently playing some first-person shooters like Brink, Borderlands, DayZ and Rage. Normally, because of the ‘lag’ on a slow broadband connection, you’re dead before you can turn around because other people have faster connections.
“My new NBN service provides a significantly different experience of gaming because there is hardly any latency. The faster link levels things out a bit.”
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Comments
Addinall
1
Oh goody. $50 BILLION so someone can play a game. Rool good value for money.
How many times a week do you download OS ISOs? I probably download six a year. Whatever Fedora is offering next, Solaris, UBUNTU, Windows previews.
I simply can't think of any reason at all to download operating systems every day.
So, the NBN is about games huh?
Fred in Adelaide
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It looks like our first commentor conveniently ignored Jacinta's comment about "shopping" - which the recent "PwC and Frost and Sullivan Global Retail and Consumer report" showed 53 per cent of Australian consumers aged above 15 years are now buying online and predicts "online shopping expenditure in Australia will reach $16 billion by the end of the year, up 17 per cent from the $13.6 billion expenditure in 2011".
I believe that by making the online shopping experience faster, easier and more accessible, the NBN will blow those figures out of the water.
So, the NBN seems not all "about games", but a significant contributor to what will soon be a $20 billion dollar industry (and employer).
But of course, some people will always take from a story the little bit that reinforces their argument.
Al
3
We have to get serious here... Australia is lagging behind in internet speed.
Stock markets are already making cash based on how fast their internet connections are to networked trading servers. This isn't a game anymore- its cash.
The faster we can do business online - the better. End of story.
michael john battista
4
It's about time we caught up the the rest of the world the fibre upgrade is needed not just for speed but reliability of data in all weather conditions. as more people get connected those speeds will come down. Great article, thank you.
Addinall
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How much bandwidth does it take to go electronic shopping? The answer is "bugger all".
"I believe that by making the online shopping experience faster, easier and more accessible, the NBN will blow those figures out of the water."
Yep that is typical of an NBN groupie. No business case, no cost benefit analysis, no market research. Just a "belief" that the ridiculous white Elephant will "blow something out of the water".
Having retailers rely more on internet shopping will cost jobs on the retail sector. That will "blow" young Sally the shop clerks holiday "out of the water" when she says hello to the unemployment queue.
The only excuse to build this idiocy always comes down to "playing silly kids games" and "we can download more TV". Possibly fun, but not worth $50 BILLION.
Not that NBNCo has got the skills required to build a network, doomed to failure. Just a huge waste of money.
As far as speed and coverage goes, we ARE caught up to the rest of the world. Australia has tremendous broadband coverage given the size of the nation and the population. It is all very well to point at some stupid report that says South Korea has faster internet. They all live in the same building.
If you are a trader that relies on making 1000 TPS then you already have FTTP. Mum and Dad traders don't require sooper-dooper FTTP.
Work from home? I have worked from home for 30 years on and off. Most positions required me to be in the office most of the time. This is a social construct not a technological problem. I write computer programs and design databases for a living.
eHealth? We can already do it.
ehealth.addinall.org
Why is it not being used more widely? It isn't for the sake of network connections.
Reliability? Try parking a tractor over the top of an OFT pipe. Or get 40 Crows swinging on an overhead.
Games? Unless the server is in Australia then you aren't going to see much of an improvement in latency. Not unless one of you bright sparks has figured out how to increase the speed of light.
And my biggest issue is that the current NBN model is ignoring those most in need of an upgrade. Those in rural and remote Australia. Sticking them on a poxy fixed wireless or an idiotic satellite system is bizarre. And we have locked them into crap connectivity for three decades! Whilst our mates in Seol will be enjoying 2Gbps, poor old Fred out Handorf way is stuck on 10 Mbps. Great.