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NBN National Broadband Network: Turnbull reckons we can get by with 25mbps
Topic Started: 3 Apr 2013, 07:32 PM (8,914 Views)
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 09:25 AM
I must be missing something here, but why is moops whinging about 25mbps speed?

Thats 25 megabytes/second right?
Potentially a 1 gb movie file in 40 seconds?
Seems pretty fast to me
and really, how much faster does one need?

I am using Telstra cable at the moment and it gets nothing like that speed, but still seems considerably fast compared to what I have used in other parts of the world.
m in mbps stands for megabits, not megabytes.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/mbps
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zaph
15 May 2013, 09:45 AM
m in mbps stands for megabits, not megabytes.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/mbps
Yeah, thanks
But my point still remains that 25mbps can potentially pull a 1 gb movie file down the pipe in 40 seconds?
or have I got that completely wrong
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A 1gb movie would be fairly short or fairly low quality.
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 10:01 AM
Yeah, thanks
But my point still remains that 25mbps can potentially pull a 1 gb movie file down the pipe in 40 seconds?
or have I got that completely wrong
At 25.6 mbps a gig of porn educational movies would take 5 minutes to download according to http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html

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earthsta
15 May 2013, 10:11 AM
A 1gb movie would be fairly short or fairly low quality.
Depends who does the encoding ;)
http://yify-torrents.com/home
zaph
15 May 2013, 10:21 AM
At 25.6 mbps a gig of porn educational movies would take 5 minutes to download according to http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html
Yet I have pulled "files" down the pipe faster than that with the connection I have now :?:
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 10:37 AM
Yet I have pulled "files" down the pipe faster than that with the connection I have now :?:
Don't know how. Perhaps your connection is faster than you think. Or it was zipped or something. I'm no tech geek so I don't know. Anyway, unless you can provide a photo it didn't happen. LOL.

I get speeds around 5 mbps on ADSL and have no problems. But I mostly stream low quality stuff like iview and youtube. In fact, I'm more limited by the websites I visit/download from, for instance the courier mail and itunes can be very slow. If my CRT tv ever dies and I get a HD TV I'm sure I'll want a lot faster.

25 mbps sounds like a lot, but if it was shared between a family of five it would struggle to keep up and file sizes only continue to increase. I'm all for going for 100 mbps, but the it must be fthm rolled out everywhere is a bit absurd when a lot of the population currently has cable running out the front which can run at 100 already. Roll the NBN out first where it is most needed.
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 09:25 AM
I must be missing something here, but why is moops whinging about 25mbps speed?

I'm not. It's great. But it's probably not good enough to run a business. The Libs plan costs only $10BN more, we're not Fiji, 10bn is fuck all.

Plus there's upload speeds to think about.
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14 May 2013, 08:37 PM


Trabant was made by East Germany. You ever tried to carry five adults in a Porsche 911? The Trabant can do it. Everything has a purpose and some things are more justifiable than others. I rather the $10 billion be spent on education or health care than allowing people to download porn at faster rates.
It's considered a gigantic piece of shit car. Ok, not a Porsche then, there's lots of cars that cost about $300k, what about a top of the line BMW 4WD. :re:
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 10:01 AM
Yeah, thanks
But my point still remains that 25mbps can potentially pull a 1 gb movie file down the pipe in 40 seconds?
or have I got that completely wrong
Hi Frank,

You mention you have telstra cable which I think is rated at 100mbps, so you should get your movie 4 times quicker than the 5 minutes quoted for 25mbps :)

You could always goto speedtest.net to see what your actual speed is.

As moops pointed out though the big issue with the current or libs setup is that even though you have 25 down you still have bugger all upload speed. Upload speed is what will allow us to have video conferencing or let us work from home due to be able to send files very quickly in BOTH directions.

Current internet only does 24mbps down and 1mbps up which is pretty sad, it can barely handle realtime voice chat with a few people.

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PiratePete1911
15 May 2013, 02:09 PM
Hi Frank,

You mention you have telstra cable which I think is rated at 100mbps, so you should get your movie 4 times quicker than the 5 minutes quoted for 25mbps :)

You could always goto speedtest.net to see what your actual speed is.




I dont have the uber fast cable, cant see the need

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Current internet only does 24mbps down and 1mbps up which is pretty sad, it can barely handle realtime voice chat with a few people.

And here was me thinking skype issues was the adsl connection from the other user.
Obviously not
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Frank Castle
15 May 2013, 02:33 PM
I dont have the uber fast cable, cant see the need

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And here was me thinking skype issues was the adsl connection from the other user.
Obviously not
Yeah, the upload speed really hurts.

With the NBN 100mbps plan you get 40mbps upload as well which is REALLY nice.

You have much better internet than I can get however :D

We are 4km from the exchange and can only manage 2mbps and when it rains we get disconnected.

The biggest benefit for us would be not relying on telstras garbage old copper anymore.

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