[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[IanD]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 6:51:32 AM UTC+10, David Froble wrote:
> Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >> In article <nrrav8$724$1 at dont-email.me>, "John E. Malmberg"

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> > 
> > In general, home internet service in the US is dreadful, and well behind
> > what was available in places like rural Poland five or six years ago.
> > And what is most sad is that Americans just don't seem to realize how bad
> > it is.
> > --scott
> 
> I know what to do.  Have a congressional committee to research how our internet 
> compares to the rest of the world.  I'm sure the lobbyists for Verizon and 
> Comcast will volunteer for the committee.

I hear ya loud and clear.

We have an equally screwed situation here in Australia. Good old Rupert Murdock - god bless his capitalistic soul and how he stifled the adoption of broadband to save his pay TV aspects...

At least you will not have the backwater infrastructure the stupid government in Australia is pushing down everyone's throat as 'good enough'

First we were going to spend 42 billion on rolling out fibre to everyone's home.

Then it became fibre to the node and piggy back on the last few hundred meters of existing copper in a shared last mile offering.

Now it's going to also piggy back also on cable infrastructure and use DOCSIS 3.1 (when it's actual out and in use in the real world) for telephony and internet services maxing out at 100 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up for domestic supply, all on a shared segments of course!. 

This is being sold to dumb arses across the country as building the infrastructure to take the country forward in the years ahead. *sigh*

Sure, Australia may be the worlds largest continent and delivering services to every nook and cranny may be not so easy but the powers that be here are useless at understanding the future needs of networking yet alone the current needs. We have politicians who's concept of the internet is email and browsing the odd occasional web site.

We still have a USO (universal service obligation) that says Telephony only is the basic right, yet alone public internet as a minimum service standard.

I wouldn't mind privatization if it was based on pure capitalism but those thinking that we live in a capitalistic world are in la-la land, we have had a quasi fascist state in operation for quite some time now, masquerading as capitalism, which is why it's such a cluster-fuck of a system with diminishing standards, especially here in Australia.

The NBN (as it is called here, National Broadband Network) is hopeless. I signed up a friend so that he and his daughter could at least have internet access to help him have a better chance of getting a job and his fibre to the house connection on a tier-1 plan (up to 25 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up), gets 4 Mbps down and 0.4 Mbps up! No wonder it is becoming known as NBN (No Bloody Network). This is considered the new base for our national network infrastructure for the years ahead.

And to help you up-take the NBN when it comes to your local area, the government has stipulated that once it's installed in your area, you have 18 months maximum to switch to an NBN plan (phone and internet) before your disconnected from the existing telephony network infrastructure - your 'choices' are made for you

Yep, Australia's future is riding on this simply awesome backbone, lol

</End of sarcastic rant>.