satire or not... it was linked from a serious news aggregator site
Now whilst I'm not quite as silly to miss the satire in the post, a few of the comments were.
Where I live, I struggle to get a 3g signal. Even when I do, the 3g speed is woeful... it's about dial up speed, on Telstra, Vodafone, and Optus's networks.
My ADSL2+ however syncs around 7mbps and for less than my monthly mobile phone bill gives me 200gb of transfer allowance. I tried to hit it last month - but only managed to do 170gb even downloading an excess of 32bit linux isos I didn't need (who builds 32bit machines anyway?!) or want and will probably delete anyway (after they're backed up to the NAS at work).
The NBN doesn't need satirical articles taking the piss out of it - it needs supportive articles, because the mainstream media (specifically the Australian newspaper) are giving it hell at every given opportunity, which sadly is daily for them. I just hope that they don't derail the project which could finally deliver me the speed we deserve.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
