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oohmeplums
13y ago
Wow, how is it even possible for local councils to do this? Given how dodgy local councils appear to be ... wow. How monumentally fucked up.
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oohmeplums
13y ago
Opticomm or something similar?
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oohmeplums
13y ago
How much extra would it cost to upgrade the FTTN to FTTH afterwards? Surely it's more efficient to do it once and do it right with fibre? And I have my doubts about the copper reaching 100Mbps.
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oohmeplums
13y ago
Quick eyeball of Wikipedia suggests there are five major cables out of Australia: Telstra Endeavour, Southern Cross, AJC and Pipe Pacific. Telstra Endeavour is currently 80Gbps with capacity to 1.28Tbps ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstr
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oohmeplums
13y ago
The upgrade to 1Gbps was always in the roadmap: http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/documents/initial-roadmap.pdf Frankly, I think they should've launched with 1Gbps to begin with -- customers don't have to pay for the higher speed tiers if th
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oohmeplums
14y ago
Hah, I knew I should've pulled the trigger on buying MonoTouch last week! Oh well, at least I can do some testing on a real device without buying anything for the moment. From looking at the comparison chart on https://store.xamarin.com/
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oohmeplums
14y ago
It looks like this issue was caused by Apple mistakenly marking the centre of Local Government Areas as 'cities', in Australia at least. See example at http://imgur.com/qlciM for an example from Perth; Cambridge and Vincent aren't suburbs
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oohmeplums
15y ago
From my iiNet DSL2+ connection in Perth, Australia to tokyo1.linode.com, I get 204ms ping and 14 hops, and from a Telstra fibre connection, I get 174ms and 15 hops. That compares to about 250ms and 12 hops on iiNet, and 210ms and 14 hops on
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oohmeplums
15y ago
First time poster, long time reader. Not a great article. "since Android was built for multitasking, inactive applications remain in a saved state for a particular amount of time." -- uhh, this is exactly how it works on iOS. "This doesn’t