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Broadband and Australias future

brainbeat — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:49:27 +0000

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.

Car fire Klemzig

brainbeat — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:42:34 +0000

This morning I was awoken somewhere between 2 and 3am by bang of a car exploding into a fireball. I quickly dressed and grabbed my camera and took these photos and some video. The car has been parked almost directly in front of my house and was fully ablaze when I arrived. This dumping and setting alight of the car comes after one which was parked 1 car length behind where this is and was dumped on the previous Monday. Both cars were Toyota Camrys and as I have been told there were 2 more dumped and set ablaze in surrounding suburbs this morning also being Camrys. I have been told by witness of the first car fire that this one was a little smaller and leas intense. The flames were up to 5m above the car with a tall column of black smoke. It took the Fire truck about 5 minutes to arrive after I had gone out to observe the blaze and they extinguished the fire within minutes. As far as I am aware the police do not have any suspects. I hope that we do not get another one dumped here next week.

More photos in the gallery

brainbeat — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:42:11 +0000

Hi guys
I have added another 72 photos to my gallery in the photography part spread throughout various albums. The main reason why I have found and been working on these photos is that the company Golden has been running a promotion where if you purchased 3 of their products you could make a 20 page photo book from snapfish. I thought about what to put into the book and decided that why put a whole heap of family photos into a book where I would probably print out those family photos out myself anyway where I have a lot of other random photos I have taken which a book worthy but I may never print out. Go to http://www.brainbeatproductions.com.au/gallery/Photography to check them out and please feel free to leave comments about them. All photos I have in my gallery are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License too which means you are free to use them as you want for anything noncommercial.

Wedding Photography

brainbeat — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:51:40 +0000

Dear Readers

I have just added some photos I have taken of a wedding which I was the official photographer to the Wedding Photography part of the gallery. Below are a few examples of where is there and there are many more to be added from this and other weddings.

Website Problems mostly fixed

brainbeat — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:14:43 +0000

I am glad to say that most of the problems I had with the website are now fixed. I have been able to recreate the menues and pages from a older version I had. There may still be some bad links and other errors but I will be looking at them tomorrow. I have also started populating the new gallery with photos. Here is one example to take a look at and if you would like to see more you can find them in the gallery.

Website Problems and maintainance

brainbeat — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:47:47 +0000

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

website connection probelms

brainbeat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:35:31 +0000

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

website was down the last 2 days

brainbeat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:00:22 +0000

It seems this blog has lately become a record of my server problems but anyway If you tried to access my website during the last 2 days you would not have gotten anything. On Wednesday night we had a power failure and the server and router lost power and it seems that the server changed its IP address and the router kept redirecting the website requests to the old address. I only found this out just now and it is now up and running again and hope I do not have any problems for a while.

The website may be down and or slow

brainbeat — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:19:59 +0000

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.

Federal Government Announces Fiber to the Home

brainbeat — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:44:27 +0000

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