Sure it's unrealistic to expect every video to load with zero buffering even in the best of circumstances, but that doesn't mean Aly's comments are without worth. For the average, non-technically minded Aussie who doesn't know a kilobyte from a killer bee or a megabyte from a mighty bite, buffering is one real world consequence of bandwidth that they DO understand. The (then) opposition managed to get the Australian public to turn off from the NBN debate by elevating it to techno-babble beyond the average level of understanding of caring, Gillard & Rudd blithely went along with it, and "Joe Aussie" switched channels to watch neighbours or worried about his income tax instead. Putting it in terms that the average consumer can understand (even if a little unrealistic) allows it to remain in the public eye so that pressure can be put on Turnbull & Shorten to come up with better, slightly more credible broadband policies. While it remains the domain of an intellectual elite the average voter won't care, and the politicians will ignore it.
Posts by Sandmann
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
