vDSL2 sucks NBN sucks Copper sucks
It is continues to amaze me how NBN continues to operate. With over $50B AUD of taxpayer funds later (See NBN Project costs) folks like me that live in the suburbs continue to have less than ideal quality.

As of this post, I’m sitting on a vDSL2+ connection, with a Fibre to the Node backhaul, delivered by ~450m of Copper cable (last mi … ⌘ Read more

@prologic_blog@feeds.twtxt.net Why don’t you connect directly to fibre, wherever that is, say in Brisbane, and build yourself a small digital hotspot antennae dish, to relay the signal directly to another dish, located over your house. What is the cost for your own private setup like this? Cheaper than waiting for fibre directly to your house.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Sadly rolling your own Fibre is quite expensive because you have to deal with labor and politics and renting roadside space or existing trenches

i would get starlink.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Haha not gonna run a business with internet facing services off of Starlink 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net ah, but for home use I think it would work well :)

I didn’t say using fibre, I said set up a digital hot spot in Brisbane and one over your house, direct in line, a distance of 30kms. That should work??

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net It would, but I’d have to go up fairly high and renting space like that isn’t cheap either. We might be in the hills, but we’re also fairly close to the creek and in a bit of a dip in the hills 🤣