{"id":989,"date":"2006-05-30T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/989\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:22:45","slug":"989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/989","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra wants to send FibreOptic cable almost to the household as a way to increase the bandwith available to houses. But one of the other impacts is that this would provide Telstra with a near monopoly which cannot be a good thing. <\/p>\n<p>In response, IINet has released a paper on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iinet.net.au\/about\/media\/releases\/The-Myth-of-Fibre-May-06.pdf\">myth of Fibre<\/a> and how it is not really needed to privide a high speed data service in most parts of the country. Interesting read as it describes much of the technology of ADSL, and the changes with ADSL 2\/2+. Another interesting thing I heard is that Telstra are now installing minture ADSL servers in some street boxes with fibre back to the exchange. The interesting thing is that this fibre is often only 2 MBit\/sec each way, meaning that two 1500\/256 ADSL links will saturate the download connection. The reports I have seen indicate that Telstra have up to 24 people sharing the fibre.<\/p>\n<p>My task right now in VB.NET is working out how to move controls such as buttons at runtime&#8230; They should be dragable, but I have not worked out how to do that yet&#8230; More work needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra wants to send FibreOptic cable almost to the household as a way to increase the bandwith available to houses. But one of the other impacts is that this would provide Telstra with a near monopoly which cannot be a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/989\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-989","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}