{"id":3191,"date":"2011-06-01T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2011-06-01T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:29:43","slug":"who-needs-the-nbn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Who needs the NBN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am in suburban Canberra on a modestly effective ADSL2+ connection with Bigpond. I&#8217;m reviewing a nice new LG TV which can, amongst other things, connect to Bigpond Movies. Here&#8217;s what it has to say about my Internet connection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bigpondmoviespeed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bigpondmoviespeed.jpg\" alt=\"Bigpond Movie Speed meter on LG TV\" title=\"Bigpond Movie Speed meter on LG TV\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bigpondmoviespeed.jpg 500w, http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bigpondmoviespeed-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, apparently it is quite good enough for high definition movies (where high definition is loosely defined, I wouldn&#8217;t be expecting Blu-ray quality!) Like a few million other Australians. There are those outside the reach of ADSL2+, for sure, but I don&#8217;t quite understand why it is necessary to rip out a working system, rather than simply extending its reach.<\/p>\n<p>I know Senator Conroy reckons we&#8217;ll all be able to perform surgery upon each other thanks to the miracle of high speed IP video feeds over the NBN, but somehow I just don&#8217;t quite see it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> (a couple of minutes later): According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.zdnet.com.au\/broadband\/speedtest.htm\">this site<\/a>, my connection speed is about 5,300kps (kbps?), or a bit below the average for Australians who have tried the meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am in suburban Canberra on a modestly effective ADSL2+ connection with Bigpond. I&#8217;m reviewing a nice new LG TV which can, amongst other things, connect to Bigpond Movies. Here&#8217;s what it has to say about my Internet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=3191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}