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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: So what are you going to do with faster internet? Reply #120 - Sep 21^st, 2010 at 7:21pm Well, I like to d/l bit-torrents of movies and TV shows, and games. My SPEED is adequate (barely) on Bigpuddle wireless, but the d/l limits suck AND blow all at the same time. It can, however, rival any technology in the speed with which it enables me to ignore idiots.
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Binary Ninja Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 460	Re: So what are you going to do with faster internet? Reply #121 - Sep 21^st, 2010 at 7:23pm yep DNa all hardware made is sold for world wide markets so in Australia some features wont work at all or hardly work due to our internet
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Reply #122 - Sep 21^st, 2010 at 8:02pm

In all honesty, probably nothing. If it costs more I'm not going to be getting it. I stopped pirating software/music/films a long time ago. What I primarily use the internet for (posting on forums, reading blogs, posting on my blog, research, youtube videos) doesn't require internet speed any faster than what is already available to me.

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Reply #124 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 9:18am

mozzaok wrote on Sep 21^st, 2010 at 6:19pm:

Longy, when you are wrong, you are wrong, and no amount of prevarication will change that, so just a polite, "oops", or a more complete, "I admit that I was totally wrong, of course a telecommunications network would be considered as infrastructure', would be sufficient to signal your acceptance of your error.

Another person who doesnt know what a commercial operation is. When you become a lefty do they amputate the thinking part of your brain and just leave you withthe touchy-feely part? the NBN is a commercial enterprise which even the labor govt understands but apparently lefties do not.

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Reply #125 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 9:18am

Dnarever wrote on Sep 21^st, 2010 at 6:41pm:

Just watching an internet connected TV. (from corporate location with a fast connection)

The internet connection can not cope with the lowest rate stream of 1Mbs. Keeps stopping to catch up.

Faster internet will fix this one.

You can now buy TV's which the current internet speeds will not cater.

name one.

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Reply #126 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 5:59pm

So I see that n one has come up with a legitamate domestic use for 100Mbs internet. Not really surprising. and once we get to the reason for it we can discuss download limits. Im presuming if you are going to get 10 times the speed then naturally you will want 10 times the download limit. So if your limit is 50Gb now what are you planning to used 500Gb for?

anyone got any clue??

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vegitamite Ex Member	Re: So what are you going to do with faster internet? Reply #127 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 6:03pm No use answering you longie. I gave good links to insights as to why a faster futurist broadband has merit...but you either don't read them OR ignore it..so basically you are just like Abbott -oppose it all !
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Reply #128 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 6:08pm

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No use answering you longie. I gave good links to insights as to why a faster futurist broadband has merit...but you either don't read them OR ignore it..so basically you are just like Abbott -oppose it all !

You answered me with a list of things we are already doing. IM looking for NEW things. You keep taking about things we wtih ADSL 2+ can already do. dont assume because you are stuck on dialup (your own fault since you voted for rudd who pulled the plug onthe Broadband you woudl otherwise already have) that the rest of us cant already do the things you are salivating over. have you ever actually USED broadband before?

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Reply #129 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 6:10pm

Funny how with the exception of off site backups and hosting, no one hasnt given a reasonable answer to the benefits of $43billion worth of money that isnt already done now, only they want them faster. Considering most of those activities they want to do are illegal ones it doesnt sound like a worthy investment to me.

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Reply #130 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 6:24pm

Verge wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 6:10pm:

Funny how with the exception of off site backups and hosting, no one hasnt given a reasonable answer to the benefits of $43billion worth of money that isnt already done now, only they want them faster. Considering most of those activities they want to do are illegal ones it doesnt sound like a worthy investment to me.

all of which are business uese and businesses needing that can already do it if they want to. at the same time I am exceptionally dubious about cloud computing and having a third party back up my data, my emails and confidential information. but we can already do it anyhow.

but since residences make up 90% of the market where is the NEED for it?

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Reply #131 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 7:51pm

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The need for speed is certainly there if families are doing several things at once. Imagine one person watching ultra-high-definition 3D sport, another video-chatting with friends, and another working with four colleagues scattered across the planet - and don't tell me that won't transform society! - all while browsing material on their tablet PCs. People already use their iPads while watching TV. Now multiply it by 10.

Fibre broadband today is like electricity a century ago. So many applications will be discovered for 1Gbps internet over the next 50 years that we will look back and wonder why the hell we even hesitated to roll it out.

And just think, New services will only emerge when the speeds exist to support them. Kiss

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Reply #132 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 8:07pm

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The need for speed is certainly there if families are doing several things at once. Imagine one person watching ultra-high-definition 3D sport, another video-chatting with friends, and another working with four colleagues scattered across the planet - and don't tell me that won't transform society! - all while browsing material on their tablet PCs. People already use their iPads while watching TV. Now multiply it by 10.

Fibre broadband today is like electricity a century ago. So many applications will be discovered for 1Gbps internet over the next 50 years that we will look back and wonder why the hell we even hesitated to roll it out.

And just think, New services will only emerge when the speeds exist to support them. Kiss

so far you have identified ENTERTAINMENT as the only reason for spending $43B.

You are proving my point!

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AUSSIE: "Speaking for myself, I could not care less about 298 human beings having their life snuffed out in a nano-second, or what impact that loss has on Members of their family, their parents..."

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Reply #133 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 8:17pm

so far you have identified ENTERTAINMENT as the only reason for spending $43B.

You are proving my point!

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OH FFS. Roll Eyes

look at your the title of your topic ;
'So what are you going to do with faster internet?'

and when we talked of the' business advantage side' you said 'but what will you use it for'...l

longie longie longie Cry

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Reply #134 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 8:31pm

____ wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 8:43am:

The potential of the internet ... is on par with the human brain ... massive potential.

Opposing evolution of human society, just for political reasons has, and will in the near future, backfire on the Coalition.

I would suggest Abbott and his party should go back to the drawing board and choose his fights more carefully. Start selecting battles he has a chance of willing.

Opposing the roll out of broadband is on par with opposing the roll out of education.

If the grammar on this site is indicative of the effectiveness of the later, it'd be fair to say it were a monumental waste of money.

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Politicians and Nappies need to be changed often and for the same reason.

One trouble with political jokes is that they often get elected.

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