kain_kusanagi said:
mjk45 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
mjk45 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Sometimes I think I must be the only person with a slow broadband connection. I can't watch high quality video streams without buffer breaks so there's no way I'd be able to play a game streaming across the internet. If Sony or MS or whatever installs a server farm across the street maybe I'd be more hopeful. But right now I have no interesting in stream gaming.
I know I'm not the only one. The US has a huge number of rural slow connections that aren't going to get upgraded any time soon. The US is just far too big to get fiber in every home at a reasonable cost. |
IF Australia can have a National Broadband Network and it is the same size as the continental US then I assume it's a political decision not to.
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Australia is about the same size, but it's population is much smaller and less spread out than the US. The same can be said of Canada. It's bigger than the US, but has 10% the population. Most of that population lives within 200 miles of the US/Canada boarder.
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Yes the population is smaller but unlike Canada the major cities are spread out Take the City of Perth West Australia it is the worlds most isolated capital city in terms of location to another major city and it will be connected , so in terms of distance the back bone will cover a huge geographical area , in the US of you would have lots more cities and towns connected to that back bone but then again that means more subscribers hence more money generated , still the stumbling block in the US would be that in Australia the Federal and State governments have a long history of infrastructure building ,most of our major infrastructure was built that way , our early railways and utilities where Govt built initiatives , where yours where private.
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When I said the US is spread out I'm talking about the 10s of millions of Americans who are peppered through rural America. Perth may be isolated, but it's still a city and a big one at that. All it takes to connect a house to the internet in Perth is an extra 300 feet of cable. In America it could take 10 miles of cable to ge to just one home. That's uncountable millions of miles of cable that no company is going to lay because they won't make enough money from one family's subscription when it takes so much cable just for them.
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yes but the fact is Perth has to be connected to the rest of Australia so you have a nation wide backbone , the difference would be how many sub connections you have along the way ,and yes most certainly it would face more hurdles in the US as i stated if it where a Govt undertaking that would be easier but you tend to do it privately , still there as to a political push for it to happen here the govt put up the 40 billion dollars and created the NBN company to run it as a wholesaler , still it isn't size holding it back after all the US as other nationwide networks , but the will to do it and a plan that satisfy s competing interests a tall order.
