NBN speed test website draws quick fire


Less than a day after launching his NBN comparison website, a Liberal-leaning university student has been hailed on social media, accused of being a covert agent for the Labor Party and taken a verbal slap from Malcolm Turnbull.

James Brotchie's site, howfastisthenbn.com.au, lets visitors compare the speeds possible under Labor's national broadband network with the minimum guaranteed under the Coalition's alternative. Since the website went live on Tuesday afternoon, it has been visited nearly 80,000 times and received nearly 30,000 "likes" on Facebook.

The Labor Party has piggybacked on the enthusiasm, with the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, sharing it on his Facebook page and his press office spreading it on Twitter.


Screen shot: James Brotchie's website howfastisthenbn.com.au.
A spokesman for Senator Conroy suggested they admired Mr Brotchie's idea. It had been the most "viral" piece of communication on the NBN so far, the spokesman said.

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The website's creator, Mr Brotchie, a 28 year-old PhD finance student at the University of Queensland, said he got a call late on Tuesday night by a member of federal Labor's social media team asking him "who the hell he was" and expressing admiration for the website.

"I am pretty much a Liberal voter," Mr Brotchie said. "I was just really pissed off with the Coalition's [NBN] policy".


James Brotchie created the website howfastisthenbn.com.au.
Visitors to the website can trial simulated upload and download speeds of the two versions by uploading wedding photos, videos of puppies and simulating a Dropbox file transfer.

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull described the website as "a thoroughly biased piece of propaganda".

The website suggests the maximum speed possible under the Coalition's NBN is 25 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 5 Mbps upload, which Mr Turnbull said was misleading. Download speed of 25Mbps is in fact the minimum speed guaranteed by the Coalition, while the upper range would be closer to 100 Mbps. Mr Turnbull has made no promises regarding upload speeds.

Mr Brotchie was also wrong to claim that "no ongoing maintenance" for the fibre solution was required, Mr Turnbull said.

"What a joke. Are fibre optic cables immune to shovel strike? Are fibre distribution hubs, the NBN Co's street cabinets, impervious to trucks backing into them? Has human error been abolished so that all fibre splices are perfect?"

Amid the political warring over his website, Mr Brotchie seemed amused when it was suggested he was a covert agent for the Labor Party.

"I have never been involved with any political party," he said. "Never even met a Labor politician".

He claims on his website: "I have always been a Liberal voter, although, the lack of sane political discourse over the past few years has left me disillusioned with both parties."

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-speed-test-website-draws-quick-fi...

longweekend58 wrote on May 8^th, 2013 at 5:29pm:




He didn't design this apex policy of the coalition.
If they had any sense, the crazy conservatives would of just opposed the NBN until the election.

Stuff up after stuff up with the crazy conservatives.

longweekend58 wrote on May 8^th, 2013 at 5:37pm:



bet you $5 donated to a charity of the winner's choice on the result of the electorate of Melbourne ... man or mouse?

or is it against your seven day's belief to gamble

longweekend58 wrote on May 8^th, 2013 at 5:55pm:



The girly accepted. Mission accomplished.

longweekend58 wrote on May 8^th, 2013 at 5:29pm:


Do you ever get anything right LW,

James Brotchie's Overview

Current
Founder at Portal Charts
Finance and Mathematics Tutor at University of Queensland
Founder at ØTick
Independent Software Developer at James Brotchie
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Past
Software Developer at Netbox Blue
Software Engineer at Boeing Defence Australia
Research Assistant at University of Queensland
Education
The University of Queensland
The University of Queensland
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane Grammar School

The University of Queensland
PhD, Finance
2011 – 2014 (expected)

Throwing in the Towel: A Manager's Optimal Voluntary Liquidation Decision.

I am attempting to quantitatively answer: "When is it optimal for the manager of a financially distressed firm to voluntarily liquidate?".

To do so I use stochastic calculus, finite-difference and Monte-Carlo numerical methods, as well as theory and empirical evidence from Finance, Accounting, and Law.

The University of Queensland
Graduate Certificate in Science, Financial Mathematics
2009 – 2010

Coursework involves advanced topics in financial modeling and risk management.
Activities and Societies: UQ Trading Team. Attended 2011 and 2012 Rotman International Trading Competition in Toronto, Canada.
Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Aerospace Avionics
2003 – 2006

Grade: First-class honours
Aerospace Avionics major combined studies of electrical engineering, aircraft and satellite control systems and systems engineering. Signal and image processing electives taken.

Thesis involved design, development and construction of an autopilot system for a small unmanned aerial vehicle. Autopilot software was developed using C targeting the QNX operating system and the Atmel microcontroller architecture.
Activities and Societies: Australian Student's Space Association


Now you claim he is wrong on lots of points,
So tell us where he is wrong.