If this was a great idea dudes, how come Telstra hasn't picked it and run with - Backed by all the pension funds screaming that they want to chuck money at it too - Nah, sorry - Just sounds like one more under the river type Brisbane dark hole/tunnel to me?
There's a couple of reasons why Telstra has little or no incentive to spend the kind of money required on the access network.
a) They have to share it with competitors, and the ACCC gets to determine the price, not them. Hard to make a business case under those conditions.
b) There was a fundamental change in the way debt markets treat service providers that happened around the beginning of the 2000s. Before the change, Telstra was seen as being a utility and they could get lots of cheap long-term credit. This means they had the capability of building long-lasting infrastructure and recouping the cost of 30-50 years. Since the change they have been treated like a dot-com and their cost of capital has gone up hugely. It is questionable whether they could actually swing this kind of investment, even if they wanted to.
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Hmmm - Yet another mental note to self: Arrange to get comms chopped off on retirement! (Which will spare the bulls here a bit of annoyance - Yeh Hah! Win win! Bonus bonus ... All 'Round! )
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We need the NBN. Im sick of getting owned on Battlefield 3 and Black ops when my daughter is on the ipad. Abbot will be hated by all gamers if he gets in.
We need the NBN. Im sick of getting owned on Battlefield 3 and Black ops when my daughter is on the ipad. Abbot will be hated by all gamers if he gets in.
Bugger. Foiled. I mainly want it to reduce the lag on my League of Legends when someone else in the house is video chatting on Skype. :-)
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Have to admit, I wouldn't mind better latency on Rift or Neverwinter either
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Are you dudes telling me the internet is useful for more things than sending email, checking out the news, and looking at porn - Hmmm ... WAY too progressive - Should DEFINITELY be canned! Ferk, if we don't bring this to a halt people'll be doing their bloody BANKING 'n bill paying on it !!!
I can still remember watching my much younger brother play Grand Theft Auto on the playstation 2 for hours on end while the both of us sipped on far too many bottles of fine beer. I'd pay good money to be able to do that again.
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Must admit I've never played Diablo. From the couple of ads for Diablo that I have seen, I'd say there are some similarities.
I've never been big on twitch games like COD, etc. because my keyboard and mouse mechanics are too slow, but LoL has got me in. It is an online team RTS/combat game, typically 5v5, and all members of the team have different capabilites, much like D&D or Neverwinter nights, etc. Game mechanics are very important, but so are strategy and teamwork, and there is a huge amount to know. If you go over to twitch TV ( http://www.twitch.tv/ ) you'll find a lot of streaming games and LoL seems to be the most popular at the moment. You can watch the pros playing to get a bit of an idea. There is quite a big Pro circuit, and it's just coming up to world champs. The finals will be in the Staples Centre in LA which seats about 18,000 people and tickets sold out in a few hours!
Back to NBN-related, because it is online and requires quick reactions, every millisecond of round-trip delay counts. It doesn't need huge amounts of downstream bandwidth, but if you are on a DSL connection and someone else is sending video out (e.g. Skype), then your commands can get queued behind a bunch of big video packets and it does noticeably add to lag at times. I also find it gets less playable when someone in the house is streaming video inwards, even though I have an 8M connection. Not that that it is my main problem. I basically suck at the game anyhow.
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. --Gloria Steinem AREPS™
Must admit I've never played Diablo. From the couple of ads for Diablo that I have seen, I'd say there are some similarities.
I've never been big on twitch games like COD, etc. because my keyboard and mouse mechanics are too slow, but LoL has got me in. It is an online team RTS/combat game, typically 5v5, and all members of the team have different capabilites, much like D&D or Neverwinter nights, etc. Game mechanics are very important, but so are strategy and teamwork, and there is a huge amount to know. If you go over to twitch TV ( http://www.twitch.tv/ ) you'll find a lot of streaming games and LoL seems to be the most popular at the moment. You can watch the pros playing to get a bit of an idea. There is quite a big Pro circuit, and it's just coming up to world champs. The finals will be in the Staples Centre in LA which seats about 18,000 people and tickets sold out in a few hours!
Back to NBN-related, because it is online and requires quick reactions, every millisecond of round-trip delay counts. It doesn't need huge amounts of downstream bandwidth, but if you are on a DSL connection and someone else is sending video out (e.g. Skype), then your commands can get queued behind a bunch of big video packets and it does noticeably add to lag at times. I also find it gets less playable when someone in the house is streaming video inwards, even though I have an 8M connection. Not that that it is my main problem. I basically suck at the game anyhow.
Yeah pretty frustrating sharing any adsl network but i think even with NBN at 25 mbps i think youll still notice two people on one network. The second user has to have some sort of an impact regardless of download speed. I dont play COD much but being regional i tend to get hammered sometimes when you come across someone with NBN. Whats more frustrating is they are usually young kids with internet warrior syndrome and too young for the content. Battlefield is a better bunch of guys playing. Much less banter. Ill check that channel out cheers.
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Abbot will be hated by all gamers if he gets in.
