It can be hard working at home when the internet keeps dropping out, especially when you are in the middle of an important meeting and the screen freezes. Unfortunately, these dropouts have become too frequent, and the National Broadband Network (NBN) is to blame.
The NBN is supposed to be the backbone of the information superhighway in Australia. Successive governments have fought over the funding and did their best to explain how they would build a better mousetrap, but they have ultimately failed to deliver. Instead of building fibre to the home, the NBN built fibre to the node and relied on old copper technology to connect the house to the node. It was lunacy, as it was out of date before it was built.
5G cellular is supposed to be the magic bullet that makes the NBN obsolete. However, if too many people use it, it slows down considerably. This is what happened to previous wireless generations, 3G and 4G. And it’s bound to happen in some form to 5G.
I feel the consequences of the NBN failure in jaggy, stuttering video meetings. The inexcusable failure to build out the infrastructure on which this country’s future growth is utterly dependent is now starting to hurt.
The NBN is supposed to be the backbone of the information superhighway in Australia. Successive governments have fought over the funding and did their best to explain how they would build a better mousetrap, but they have ultimately failed to deliver. Instead of building fibre to the home, the NBN built fibre to the node and relied on old copper technology to connect the house to the node. It was lunacy, as it was out of date before it was built.
5G cellular is supposed to be the magic bullet that makes the NBN obsolete. However, if too many people use it, it slows down considerably. This is what happened to previous wireless generations, 3G and 4G. And it’s bound to happen in some form to 5G.
I feel the consequences of the NBN failure in jaggy, stuttering video meetings. The inexcusable failure to build out the infrastructure on which this country’s future growth is utterly dependent is now starting to hurt.