Posts by Steve Barnes
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The Herald? Pork?.......... I cant digest either.
All key had to say today after the Budget was that Nastional will be "better". Cheap talk, "my Mobile phone is "better" than your mobile phone", schoolyard boasting with no substance.
I just saw a typo "Nastional" but I think I'll leave it in. Whenever I have the misfortune to come across the ravings of the Right I can't think but how nasty they can be. -
I try to avoid going to funerals.......especially my own.
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Matthew,
I grudgingly agree with you about wiMax, I wish i didn't. I know that wireless sucks the life out of Mtu's but some bright spark will come up with somthing like header comperssion with dynamic error correction and the whole need for cable and fibre will be history. Then people will be asking "why did we spend $5 billion on burying all that glass?" Maybe we would be better off turning all that glass into crystal balls because who knows what is just around the corner?I hadn't thought of it like that, but you're right.
Now there's a first :-) Can I have that in writing? ......Oh it is ;-)
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it's much cheaper to host your New Zealand website outside New Zealand.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHG!!!!
Even teh internets are leaving New Zealand
But I still won't vote for Shon Key ;-) -
Neither Iridium nor Telecoms CDMA could really be called networks. Rather protocols and associated hardware. Or am I just being picky ;-)
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Matthew,
Yes, the anti peering nonsense indeed. I had someone try to explain the reasoning to me once, all I could say was WHAT? It came down to either I was stupid or they were, you can guess what my analysis of that was. I also wonder why it appears that PA is hosted in San Francisco, is it?
I often have to "cheat" to get video streaming to work on my setup, snatching it from the cache and saving the file. For some reason I haven't even bothered to try and figure out this won't work for TVNZ on Demand, it seems to only get the stream up until the first "ad. break" I'll have a play with VLC to stream after a good buffering period one day but that kind of defeats the idea of "On Demand" eh?
I may sometimes come across as an apologist for Woosh but it's just old fashioned loyalty and the fact that I like wireless, cables and fibre just seem so 20th century somehow.
What's your take on WiMax? -
I'd be happy to pay up to $100/month which is about what I pay now for phone line and internet, as long as the connection could take care of my phone as well.
That's the kind of responses I'm getting too but we're going to need bigger international pipes to get rid of capping but that is already on the cards with Kordia and PIPE
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I'd love for Wimax to come along and solve all our problems but is that still going to happen?
I've just checked my facts regarding WiMax and Woosh's roll out date. I now have it on good authority that the roll out is set for late 2009. As far as I can tell they will be looking at 802.16m (Gigabit Wimax) and they are not alone globally speaking, there is some background on the technology here
As for using existing ducting sewers etc. that's good for fibre/cable to the street but that last "mile"/ few meters really is the problem, just think about it connecting to a backbone fibre every 20 meters or so would create all kinds of expense (like, do you run fibre to all existing properties or just those who want it?)
I like this scenario.
Fibre to the cabinet (already under way)
Fibre to the street/locality
WiMax to the homes/business
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We are already seeing fibre to the node being rolled out by TCNZ and by the time anyone gets around to running FTTH we could have Gigabit WiMax so why arn't we looking at WiMax from the cabinet. I wonder sometimes why people listen to politcians promises in an election year. It's all bull.
I approached Aucland City Council with a fibre through the sewer proposal a couple of years back and was met with a bunch of excuses that make me cringe to this day. -
If this network is used to provide HDTV it would be the most expensive way possible to do it and I struggle to see an advantage with broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital TV (freeview) available.
True but as a method of delivering video on demand whether it be movies, lectures or interactive long distance medical procedures it can't be beat. A 50meg connection should be the goal of any upgrade to the network, anything less would be a complete waste of time and money. Delivering such speeds may be problematic in terms of legacy equipment but the network itself , the pipes if you like, should be at least to this standard. As for home equipment I think there woud be few people who don't have a router slower than 54mbps (802.11g is rated at this speed but actual throughput can drop to around 19mbps just fast enough for hi def video-almost) or in the case of a wired home network 100mbps.
It looks like Woosh are going to roll out WiMax later this year or early next year. Now that could be fun, WiMax from the cabinet, stuff yer fibre. ;-)