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I feel now that the coalition has released their “brodband” plan (or lack there of) that it would be appropriate to comment on my views of the plans on the table for the future of Internet in Australia. I am not affiliated with any party but as an Internet based business I feel I have a good understanding of what is the best option for the future of Australia. Blow I have highlighted some of the some of the key points of both plans in order to be fair with my comments.
Labor’s plan

• offers speeds between 12mbps (for wireless) up to 1gigabit (was 100mbps up until the 12/8/2010)
• As the bulk of the roll-out is with optical fibre it is somewhat future proof as if the now 1 gigabit is not fast enough they can always upgrade the hardware in the exchanges and offer 10gigabit or more as the theoretical maximum capacity of a single optical fibre strand is at least 100TBPS (100000 times faster than the current proposed maximum)
• 93% of Australia’s population will be covered by the optical fibre network
• the remainder of Australian homes and businesses will be serviced by a combination of next generation wireless and satellite technologies with a minimum speed of 12Mbps
• cost up to A$43 billion

problems with Labor’s plan

• while not strictly part of Labors NBN plan it is a key related issue and that is the mandatory internet filter which is a good idea in theory there are a lot of major problems with it. It will slow down internet throughput, it is mandatory, what is blocked is secret and could be abused making us like china and other states with similar filters restricting free speech, it is easily bypassed with a proxy server and so is unlikely to stop anyone who wants to get access to the banned content anyway.

Liberals plan

These are direct quotes and paraphrases from  http://www.liberal.org.au/Latest-News/2010/08/10/Real-Action-on-Broadband.aspx

• To offer speeds between 12 to 100mbps
• total cost of $6.315 billion over seven years completed by 2017
• $2.75 billion to build a nation-wide competitive fibre optic ‘backbone’
• $750 million for Fixed Broadband Optimisation to significantly increase the number of households which can receive a DSL service or high speed equivalent.
• Up to $1 billion in grant funding for new fixed wireless networks in rural and remote Australia.
• Up to $1 billion in investment funding for new fixed wireless networks in metropolitan
• $700 million to support the provision of improved satellite delivered broadband services to the last three percent of the population.
• Access prices will be set under the telecommunications access regime administered by the ACCC

Problems I can see with this plan

• Short sighted reusing an old plan from when they were last in power.
• Unlikely to improve internet speeds for people who are stuck on a Telstra rim at least for a while
• Relies on the market to drive build and invest in the networks which they have and would already be doing
• Relies somewhat on 4G mobile technology which at this stage is still in testing and can\’t be fully rolled out until the analogue TV signals to be switched off. This technology is always going to be rolled out by the phone and other companies. In theory 4G wireless internet has a maximum speed of 1gigabit but in reality you would only be able to get about 1 1/10th that much and could well be a lot slower than that if more than 1 person is also downloading from the same tower.
• Wireless internet is more convenient for not being tied to 1 place true but there is a very significant price premium for this option and download capps are still very small compared to fixed line internet.
• The 100mbps fixed speed connections will only be available to Telstra and Optus cable customers and possibly only in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane

To sum up With Labours plan we will get a future proof offering to 93% of housholds at a cost up to A$43 billion and a mandatory internet filter. Or with the Liberals a short-sighted patch job which will not deliver anything new to the majority of Australians and to keep the Telstra monopoly going.

Hi guys it has been a while since I have posted a message and once again it is to report an error. I have recently had my website moved from my old server to a new one and some where in the moving an error seems to have occured and all but a few pages would not display correctly and the menu was not functional. The error was not picked up for a week or so and I have only been able to work on it today and it. The only was we could see it to be workable was to wipe it out and do a fresh install of Joomla which it is based. This has left me with the website empty of content. I will work on it again tomorrow and it should be all fixed then. My gallery I had been using on the old web server also did not migrate correctly and so that has been wiped out and upgraded to the RC1 of Gallery 3 which means all old links to any photos are not going to work and if the website had been working as it seems they have changed the file name from main.php to index.php. The gallery will be populated tomorrow also with a lot more content that last time including a few thousand photos I took on a recent holiday in New Zealand. This new gallery does not have a theme yet to intergrate into my website but I will be working on that in the coming week or so. I will be posting some photos here when I add them to the gallery.

Shawn Sobey

BrainBeat Productions

Hi guys

I have been experiencing internet problems over the last week which has meanth that we website has been down for up to and hour at a time. I have not as yet found out the reason for this instability but am in the process of inviestigating the problem and wil keep you posted on the cause once it is found

Just a quick not to say the website may be down for a bit today as some Telstra guys are once again fixing my phone line for the 4th time in the last 5 months after some workmen who were installing a storm water pipe dug the trench too deep and cut the cable again. I am very hopeful that this will be the last time I will have phone and internet troubles before the fiber cable is rolled out.

This morning the Prime Minister of Australia has announced that the Federal Government in partnership with the private sector will build an Australia wide fiber to the home network. This was a surprise as the general thought was one of the bidding consortium would win the tender to build the network. I do approve of the Governments move to build and hopefully own the network themselves as that way we should not have the problems that we have been having with the current telephone network. I like a lot of people felt that when the previous government sold of Tel$tra they should have sold it as a telephone provider and retained ownership of the infrastructure. By the government owning the infrastructure and not one company then each player in the market has a fair go and not have a monopoly on the market who can force their own way and potentially hinder or exclude their competition.

By going down the fiber to the home approach we gain some big advantages over what some of the other proposals where. Fiber to the home pretty much future proofs the Australia’s communications for the next 50 years at least (maybe more). Australians will get broadband speeds comparable to many countries in the world and not the slow one we have now (dial up and ADSL). True a lot of people do have ADSL2+, cable, and even there are some who already have fiber to the home (mostly in the ACT and some other suburbs around Australia) Fiber links can provide tera bits per second not the ~24MBPS we have now. It will also allow a whole new entertainment revolutions to take place by having such high speeds the general public will be able to whatch HD movies on demand as well IPTV.

I look forward to hearing more about the proposal and I hope they start constructing the network soon.

Edit: you can find the press release here

Hello everyone I am please to announce that my new website is finished and is now up and running (after a few teething problems transferring the final version from my desktop to the web server). I have decided to move away from the hard coded style website to a cms which should give me less excuses for not updating it as I can update it any ware. The cms I decided to use is Joomla which is a free open source project. I used it to make over the website for Crane Glass and found it very usable and flexible with lots of extra modules and plugins available.

There may still be a few bug to work out but I hope to have the worked out in the next day or so.

I would like to announce that i have set up a gallery page to replace the one i have off this blog and the portfolio page in the main website. I have as yet posted only a few images to test it out but more will come in the near future as well i may put some other media in it too if i can get it to work. I have also as yet not created a theme yet for the gallery as i have and still am setting up everything but i will have one the suits the rest of my website in the next week.I have chosen to use the project called Gallery for the gallery site as it looks like a well maintained and featured web gallery architecture. I will be posting a full review of Gallery 2 in the next few days once i have fully explored all the features and plug-ins available.
My new gallery page can be viewed by following this link. Please take a look and tell me what you think.

In a previous post I highlighted the BOINC project which is a global distributive computing shell which allow research group do to use users idle computing power to process data and so help with their research. That leads me to this post where I thought you might be interested in looking as some stats on how much data I have been processing. The below two images are both for all the projects we run here. The reason that there are 2 is that half of the my brother (dns) join us up for and the other I did and we have not bothered to combine them. Both images are generated real-time by the BOINC stats website and are linked to it. If you ever want to find out more information about how you are going with respect to the rest of the world or even you self a few months the BOINC stats website has it all there layout out in a neat and easy navigable way.

I thought I would also put the stats for the team we are a part of ( Boinc@Australia) too.

A few weeks ago Firefox 2 was released and I thought I would highlight the changes in this new version and give you my impressions from using it. First off the interface has been given a face lift with nothing really changed but more of an update of the icons. Here Is a list of all of the changes and added features in the new version. Built-in phishing protection, Enhanced search capabilities, Improved tabbed browsing, Resuming your browsing session, Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds, Inline spell checking, Live Titles, Improved Add-ons manager, JavaScript 1.7, Extended search plugin format, Updates to the extension system, Client-side session and persistent storage, SVG text, New Windows installer. For a more information about the changes and additions take a look at the Firefox website.

Of all of the new features I have found the resuming your browsing session the most usefull as it alows you to continue where you left off browsing the previous browsing session. This feature has been available in the Opera browser for the last few years and so I applaud the programmers for including this feature in Firefox 2. I have however found that it does not allways recover from where you last were browsing especially when you close Firefox and the open it again without restarting the computer.

I have kept one computer with Firefox 1.5 here so I could do a comparison and found the there was an update for it after Firefox 2 was released so It would appear that it will be continued to be supported for a while until a majority of users and extension makers upgrade to the new version.

As I have previously stated I would recommend you download Firefox and try it yourself as you will get a faster, safer and more pleasant browsing experience than with Internet Explorer.

Yesterday I noticed that after having my website live for 9 months I have finally gained a Google PR rating. The way I found out it had changed was not through the use of the Google tool bar but through the use of the iwebtool’s pagerank checker. It would appear that the page rankings shown by the Google tool bar is not always accurate. My main website now has a PR of 1 out of 10 which is not very good but is at least a start. My blog on the other hand has a PR of 3 which while still not grate it is better than a lot of websites. This shows that having a blog attached to your website can help you gain better standing with Google and other search engins.