Aust. internet could collapse in peak times - NBN lemon files

I present the gov's technological incapability

What is it about this gov and technology? Abbot infamously described the internet as nothing more than a "video playback device". Now it can barely even do that.

An expert is warning that with the huge uptake in streaming media, such as Netflix, the NBN will be in danger of collapsing during peak time in the evenings.

Well for us it's already happening. It's been very noticeable the change in the internet in the last couple of years here in eastern Sydney. Especially at peak times. Recently in fact there are times when I've had to just give up and turn off the PC as it simply won't connect to anything. It says that it's online and connected but nothing connects.

The best times are in the mornings before midday, all seems to go well then. After that anything can happen. Turning the modem off and on (power surging) seems to work well, but sometimes even that fails. Can't even log in to email or anything.

We're still on ADSL2+ with the NBN probably about a year off. Likely because Kingsford Smith is a safe Labor seat.

Australia’s internet is at risk of collapse at peak hour as the public’s love of internet streaming outpaces the broadband network’s capacity to handle the traffic, an expert has warned. 


 “The network could effectively stop between 5pm to 9pm,” Mark Gregory, electronic and telecommunications associate professor at RMIT University, told The New Daily. 


He said the unprecedented uptake of high definition (HD) online streaming services, such as Netflix, put Australia in danger of a network collapse during peak time despite the nation’s biggest-ever $49 billion infrastructure spend on the national broadband network (NBN). 


New figures last week from the Australian Bureau of Statistics demonstrated our growing obsession with binge watching, revealing Australians download one million terabytes of data between March and June this year. 


Total downloads in Australia between June 2016 and June 2017 grew by a massive 43 per cent to just shy of three million terabytes. 


 This all comes as the total number of internet users grew by only 2.1 per cent, suggesting demand will continue to surge regardless of population growth. The New Daily