What a load of hogwash
Waleed is acting the comedian, or at least is trying to be (funny) as I thought he was. Not for one moment would normal people take him so literally when he was clearly lampooning all the bozos responsible for mismanaging the most important piece of public infrastructure we have ever built. And compared to new subs, trains or ports in the barrier reef that we still don't need, it is not really costly.
And whilst we are at it, Waleed's buffering comments are the most straight forward explanation for us masses.
However the reason why most dsl connections are so variable is because your ISPs never bothered to put in upstream capacity capable of dealing with a 24/1 link to every house. The contention ratios have gone up with broadband adoption rates, as tgey knew they would. However they leave the overloaded links in place, totally saturated during busy periods because customers put up with it. They just avoid spending any capex. And no, the speed of your http streams are in no way comparable to the time it takes to load documents from an SMB share at work, whether your computer has a 100M link or a 10G one- the protocols and services work very differently to even the most traditional of streaming services.
At least the show is covering the NBN football game in a balanced, humourous way, a bit like tony Abbott was trying to when he introduced the inventor of the Internet as he knew him. Waleed'd make a far more effective PM than turnabbottbull, and be far funnier too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
