Re: NBN Fibre to the Node (FTTN) - What does it mean to us?
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Just my 2c on FTTN vss FTTP (I am in FTTP area - please ignore any bias)
The fastest NBN offers at the moment is 100mbps
Copper can easily deliver this.
Cat6a/Cat6e can do 100 times that speed over 100meters.
Unless we get NBN speeds ten times faster, then there is no advantage to FTTP in comms speed.
The only time I go anywhere the 100mbps is running speedtest - even with 4 streaming TV channels, I do not see a limit.
Yes, FTTP is technically superior, and much better future proofing.
But your average punter will not even notice the difference - until 4k TV streaming is the norm - currently most streaming users do not even use HD (IMEO).
It is quite likely that we will hit the life expectancy of the copper before we max it out in terms of transfer speed.
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