Yes Jay, I have been saying for some time on here that all you will get
with the fibre NBN are very fast packets and very much longer time
between packets.
Unless the people running whatever server you connect to upgrade to
much faster CPUs, multiplexing modem banks and giga bit internet
connections and the path is not intercontinental you will not see
anything better than ADSL2+, even if you pay through the nose for 100Mbit.

That is why most of what the pollies say is BS.

Chrisgaff 1000 I don't expect you or I will see any difference, if I live that long.

Wobbles,

The coalition plan pays a lot less (about a third or $60bn less) for nearly all of what the NBN provides, and provides a platform to provide fibre to all the premises as needed.

No one else in the world is stupid enough to follow Labors one size fits all policy.

This may be of interest to some:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/coalition-lacks-vision-with-its-cheap-nbn-20130410-2hlO3.html

Lexi, the article you linked to does not say who wrote it but it is
pretty obvious that they are not very knowledgeable about the technology.
It reads like they are just accepting someones word that it will be
slower and ancient.
They also appear to have swallowed the myth that because it is copper
it must be on its last legs.

It is like I have said, I have a 10 Megabit link to my exchange at the
end of 2KM of copper, yet I seldom get much more than 1 Megabit down.
Why is that when the network itself is already fibre optic cable ?

The next nonsense we will see like this is a much bigger money burner,
the Very Fast Train, Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne !

I think NBN stands for Ninety Billion-dollar Network. Or in round terms, about $7500 per house hold if all houses are connected, and $10 000 per household if 30% (as predicted) go wireless. The repayment on this would be at least $500 for interest let alone maintenance and actual internet.

Being remembered as a visionary means doing something extraordinary that changes peoples lives for the better. Running up a debt of $94bn whose interest could have paid for Gonski is not the way to do it.

Sorry SM you are wrong there.

$94bn of debt is a pretty good way to be remembered, & we'll be remembering Gillard, & the fool who preceded her, & the damage they caused us, for many long years, & many elections to come.