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Campbell's alternative to cause a 'stink'?

Posted by: 4bc.com.au | 14 October, 2010 - 4:50 PM

With the NBN system looming over us, Campbell Newman talks to Michael Smith about his idea for a Broadband alternative. Campbell wants to see the fiber optic system rolled out across Brisbane utilising the underground sewer system to feed the cables through. Listen now.

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Its a pipe dream if he thinks its possible to lay optical fiber cable in a sewer and not have any problems with blockages, complications with maintenance or alterations to sewerage infrastructure.
Michael Smith get a comment from Queensland Urban Utilities, talk to the Plumbing union, ask the Master plumbers their opinion and get the Queensland Plumbing Industry Council on the phone and you will get a different opinion. I guarantee over the next few weeks you will see story's in the papers of these organizations voicing the outrage at this unworkable plan.

Dave Friday 15 October, 2010 - 3:09 PM
Stuff the NBN.
I have the fastest fibre optic connection available in Australia at the moment connected to my home.
30 MB/s
1/3 of the speed that the poiltical spin machine is proposing.
I have 3 PC's on the home network.
If all 3 computers are running and streaming a lot of data the system starts to lag.
I rang my service provider and was told that this was normal.
100 MB/s is nowhere near the speed needed to do all the fancy things they propose.
Data transfer at 100MB is slow.
LAN speed of 100MB/s is today considered outdated because of slow data transfer so how is it going to be any better across a larger network?, most PC's now have gigabit LAN.
I find 1 GB/s seems to be OK, and I get very little lag on the local network at that speed.
You still get days when the internet is running slow even at 30 MB/s.
Next time you get a tech x spert on the show Smithy, ask him about data leakage and thread load.
I suggest they do more research into the future longevity of this plan.
Terabyte is the new tech BUZZ word.
Mega and Giga are so 90,s

Richard Friday 15 October, 2010 - 1:35 PM
I'm curious. I heard 'Can Do' on 4BC yesterday and his 'extensive' research on deploying Fibre through the sewers involved - in all - two phone calls. Nice work if you can get it I s'pose. When exactly did these phone calls take place? Given that one of his examples of successful rollouts was Bournemouth. Yet this page: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2010/08/12/bournemouths-sewer-based-fibre-plan-scrapped-40089804/ shows that Bournemouth cancelled the sewer rollout because it didn't work! Check the date - 12th of August. By my calculator that was over a month ago.
So what Can Do is actually saying is that this $600 million dollar (allegedly) has been given the go ahead on the advice of a single telephone call to a local council in the UK.
LOL - farce.

Dread Friday 15 October, 2010 - 11:46 AM