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Downwind

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Posted: 03:12pm 16 Jul 2010

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Ever wondered what the internet use across the world is per country.

Have a look here where your country rates in internet junkies.

It would make you fit within 1.3 out of every 10 people across the world.

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Pete.Edited by Downwind 2010-07-18

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RossW
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Posted: 12:30am 17 Jul 2010

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Lies, Damned lies and statistics.

These things are not worth the paper they're written on. Seriously.

Firstly, "broadband" is so illdefined it's almost meaningless.

Second, simply not having "broadband" doesn't automatically make you NOT an internet junkie.

Third, simply having "broadband" doesn't automatically make you an internet junkie!

I know people who have low speed connections who are "always on" (hell, I fit that category for 10 years).
I know heaps of people with high speed connections who hardly ever use them.

And even if you DO use it a lot, does that make you a junkie?

Finally, these "per capita" statistical BS reports are the sort of crap the governments use to justify/prove that their neglect is warranted. "95% of the population is covered" means there's no need to even consider rural/regional services. The reality is that more like 50% of the regional population and 90% of the rural/remote population can't get anything much past slow (9600bps) dialup!

Gizmo

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Posted: 01:42am 17 Jul 2010

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Yeah I'm pretty much happy with whatever speed I have at the time, I adjust my internet behavour to suit. At home I now have a ADSL2 connection, so I can surf YouTube and iView on the ABC for any shows I miss. At work its plain ADSL, slower, and I keep my internet work related and occaionally drop in to here to see whats going on. When I had a 256k Sat connection with a 200M per month limit, I kept it to emails and basic surfing. My first intenet connection was a 14.4 model, man that was heaps fast, or so I thought at the time.

I dont really think bandwidth affects real internet use as a tool, anything over 28.8 is quite usable. Basic surfing, ftp and email uses very little data. But the fun/social side can get bandwidth hungry.

The Goverments national broadband upgrade ( this is turning into a rant, ok ) is a waste of money in my opinion, a lot of money for something that will have little real effect on business. I think as a country, if we want to upgrade a network, it should be the power grid.

How often do we hear solar farms, or wind farm, or geo-thermal power, especially hot rock, would reduce our carbon foot print and solve our power supply problems into the future, but it cant be implemented because the power grid isn't up to the task! These new clean technologies can only be situated in certain parts of the country, its got to be windy or sunny or have the right sorts of rocks. The big problem, according to the power companies, is its to hard to get the power grid out to these remote locations.

Well lets spend the money on a power grid instead of fiber optic cable. I would rather clean power and a ADSL connection than dirty power and a fibre optic connection.

Rant over.

Glenn

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