Australian gamers blamed for slow internet

[RK7970]

Many Aussie people are outraged about the government claims here..

 

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/nbn-blaming-gamers-for-slow-speeds-contradicts-own-advice/9836492

 

@LinusTech @Slick

[NelizMastr]

If the gamers are actually to blame, Australia has some seriously piss poor infrastructure and capacity, lol.

[schwellmo92]

This was news last week and he was taken out of context. He was likening gamers to people whom consume lots of bandwidth. It was more about the type of person who is a gamer rather than the games themselves taking lots of bandwidth.

[Sakkura]

2 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

This was news last week and he was taken out of context. He was likening gamers to people whom consume lots of bandwidth. It was more about the type of person who is a gamer rather than the games themselves taking lots of bandwidth.

The context is in the article, and it doesn't make things better for him.

 

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Stephen Jones, Labor's spokesperson for regional communications, asked Morrow to explain what an "extreme user" was.

 

Morrow replied: "It's gamers predominantly, on fixed wireless."

 

"While people are gaming it is a high bandwidth requirement that is a steady streaming process," he said.

Gaming is not a "high bandwidth requirement" or a "steady streaming process."

[asus killer]

"The article goes on to say that some games can use up to 1 gigabyte per hour for live gameplay"

 

wtf are Australians playing 

[NelizMastr]

7 minutes ago, asus killer said:

"The article goes on to say that some games can use up to 1 gigabyte per hour for live gameplay"

 

wtf are Australians playing 

4K VR porn games with live DLC? 

[JoostinOnline]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

4K VR porn games with live DLC? 

For 99c you unlock a different skin color.

[CTR640]

14 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

For 99c you unlock a different skin color.

For another 99c you can unlock genders.

[Master Disaster]

29 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

The context is in the article, and it doesn't make things better for him.

 

Gaming is not a "high bandwidth requirement" or a "steady streaming process."

Exactly this, gaming is within the megabytes per hour range, essentially you're looking at 100s of hours to reach the GB mark.

 

Conversely I've used over 300GBs last month alone solely watching Twitch.

 

Just another example of a clueless person holding a job hes not qualified for and clearly doesn't understand.

[Cyanara]

42 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

If the gamers are actually to blame, Australia has some seriously piss poor infrastructure and capacity, lol.

As someone else mentioned, the gamer thing was just a poorly phrased reference to power users in general.

It was also in reference to a very specific piece of Internet infrastructure: fixed wireless towers being built by the Government under the National Broadband Network (NBN). Essentially, they are purpose-built mobile phone towers, but use direct line of sight to antennas on the roof of residences. They are used in regional areas with low population density where installing new cables would be particularly uneconomical and time consuming. They currently provide speeds up to 50/15Mbps. Unlimited data plans are not uncommon. I'm on one of these towers and it's great.

 

However, like all wireless technology they scale poorly and some of them are struggling during peak periods, hence the initial statements about gamers/power users.

[Christophe Corazza]

Netflix HD for 1 hour is about equal to:

 

22 hours of Overwatch or DOTA

75 hours of LoL, PUBG, WOW, or COD:WW2

10 hours of Destiny 2

[XenosTech]

Stop hogging all the bandwidth over there  @leadeater 

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, XenosTech said:

Stop hogging all the bandwidth over there  @leadeater 

Wrong country, get outta here . NZ has no internet issues, Aussie BURN!!

[Christophe Corazza]

1 hour ago, asus killer said:

wtf are Australians playing 

 

Don't forget those pesky bitcoin miners... digging and damaging the cables.

Or cloud data loss every time it rains.

[leadeater]

@RK7970

Could you add a quote from article and some personal input on the topic in to the original post so it complies with the posting guidelines for the news section, thanks.

[XenosTech]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Wrong country, get outta here . NZ has no internet issues, Aussie BURN!!

Close enough to siphon some bandwidth lol but seriously, what the hell are they doing over there ?

[ravenshrike]

1 hour ago, CTR640 said:

For another 99c you can unlock genders.

$100 dollars gets you the Captain Kirk special. All non-normal skin colors as well as virtualized nonhuman characteristics.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, XenosTech said:

Close enough to siphon some bandwidth lol but seriously, what the hell are they doing over there ?

They just don't have that good infrastructure at the moment, rolling out faster connections to homes but not able to keep up with the distribution bandwidth demand for all those faster connections. We had a similar issue very briefly when Netflix first came to NZ, last about a month from memory (really slowed down everything a lot).

[XenosTech]

Just now, leadeater said:

They just don't have that good infrastructure at the moment, rolling out faster connections to homes but not able to keep up with the distribution bandwidth demand for all those faster connections. We had a similar issue very briefly when Netflix first came to NZ, last about a month from memory (really slowed down everything a lot).

Hmmm so they're pulling a Cable and Wireless then... There was a summer they bumped up the base speeds from 1mbps to 4 mbps and you couldn't use the internet for more than 2 mins at a time before your connection bombed out for 2 mins then kicked back in. Then the following year they bumped it up again to 6mbps and well... you couldn't use the internet at all then, not even their mobile data was working.

[Syntaxvgm]

People binging youtube<gamers in terms of bandwidth

ok

[captain_to_fire]

13 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Wrong country, get outta here . NZ has no internet issues, Aussie BURN!!

I remember @Windspeed36 saying something just last year that 

 

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Exactly this, gaming is within the megabytes per hour range, essentially you're looking at 100s of hours to reach the GB mark.

 

Conversely I've used over 300GBs last month alone solely watching Twitch.

 

Just another example of a clueless person holding a job hes not qualified for and clearly doesn't understand.

Well, game downloads and monstrously sized updates exist too...

[Dabombinable]

16 minutes ago, leadeater said:

They just don't have that good infrastructure at the moment, rolling out faster connections to homes but not able to keep up with the distribution bandwidth demand for all those faster connections. We had a similar issue very briefly when Netflix first came to NZ, last about a month from memory (really slowed down everything a lot).

Half the problem has been Telstra's "the network in your area is only 20 years old, its too new to upgrade".  That was a few years ago...before they got spoken to by the local member and removed the streets pair gain+enabled ADSL2 for more than 2 houses, with only 10 minutes work just down the road being required. 

If that hadn't happened it'd still be $150/month for 25GB of mobile internet.

[xtroria]

2 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

If the gamers are actually to blame, Australia has some seriously piss poor infrastructure and capacity, lol.

You can only get NBN with maximum speed of 100mbps and actualy 60mbps during peak hours. Not to even mention the fact that even in downtown melbourne many buildings still don't have NBN. 

 

I'm from Jakarta, Indonesia and we've had 300mbps internet for years now. My own house is running 100mbps internet that's reach the maximum speed even during peak hours.

 

So much for the most liveable city on earth. It's actually quite shit in here

[MyName13]

I'm surprised they aren't blaming people for watching porn apparently, video games > porn.