How come Australians have slow internet speeds?

because of the equator they have fast upload but slow download

>>105659125
Ironic

>>105659098 (OP)
>sparsely populated
>long-term planning is alien to the Oz gov
>hardly any trannies to code
>everyone with any meaningful skills will have better opportunities elsewhere
>australias entire economy is based off overpriced houses and digging crap out of the ground

Because Rupert Murdoch noticed that Foxtel subscription numbers went down in areas where high-speed internet had become available.

Because the government telecom monopoly was useless, the 'conservative' government privatised it into...a private monopoly, which was slightly less useless, but drew the ire of libtards instead of conservatives.

Then, the left wing government decided to create a new monopoly on nation wide internet and signed an agreement with the private telecom monopoly to stop any and all network upgrades, no matter how slow or congested the customers line was and began rolling out it's own, new fibre network. They claimed this new project, the NBN would be almost free, because they would charge people to use the service, thus recouping the costs....

Then the new government internet monopoly was behind schedule and over budget like all golden plated corrupt infrastructure in this country, when the left wing government reordered the network roll out to pork barrel marginal and left wing electorates, setting it back even further. My installation date went from 2013, to 15, to 17, to satellite instead of fibre, 30 mins from a major city.

The conservatives claimed that most people didn't need gigabit speeds and that most people in the future will just use a phone or tablet with fast 5g, the 'conservatives' got into power and predictably cut most of the new FTTP and upgraded most people to FTTN, setting us back even further again, as it turned out, they were mostly right about normgroids using phone internet

The real solution all along was to subsidise network upgrades for those people on the worst, slowest internet, give incentives/opportunities to neighbours for voluntarily upgrading their street, and force new developments to have fttp.

They also set up a satellite network that is completely depreciated by starlink a few years later.

That's about as fair and balanced an explanation as you're gonna get, lots of rabid redditors worship the PM, Kevin Rudd, that started the NBN and think that not having gigabit fibre to 100% of households is the reason they aren't getting sex.

>>105659141
its actually, very much this

The liberal(conservative) govt even did the announcement to poleaxe the proposed fibre to the home network right from his broadcast studios literally flaunting their corruption in everyone's faces and we all bent over and took it because its what we're best at.

>>105659192
Bravo for not drinking the NBN kool-aid.

>>105659098 (OP)
Australia has socialistic tendencies and we got socialised hard with the internet. They literally went with a plan to force everyone to pay the same for internet so that people in remote rural areas would pay the same as people living in the middle of the city and people thought this was good (well, people probably didn't "think" much about it, but they thought it meant egalitarian internet for all, people here really lap up the idea that the government is going to magically save us). There's also the problem of our bandwidth to the USA being constrained by undersea cables.

>>105659098 (OP)
Undersea cables for the most part, even New Zealand piggy backs off our undersea cables. Connecting to shit closer to us is where it's better since we're so close to Japan and other parts of Asia.

>>105659098 (OP)
The main issue is abos and pelicans gnawing on the cables

Some Strayans live in remote areas where reticulated electricity, water and gas is non existent but they still feel they deserve fibre to their house.

Years ago a Tory politician claimed every farmhouse was going to get fibre connected - great work managing people's expectations there

>>105660380
Heaven forfend that a public infrastructure upgrade might be built in a way that scales effectively to support the future need of your country's growing population. Nah, much better idea to replace the rotting copper phone lines with more copper (ie. an expensive metal) instead of fiber (ie. glass, which is cheap).

>>105659098 (OP)
It's just how capitalism works.
ISP under capitalism does not exist to provide service, it exists to make money for the owner.

>>105659098 (OP)
Government owned monopoly infrastructure that no one is allowed to compete against.
Mobile speeds got fast enough that they had to introduce a $10/month tax on all phone plans to keep NBN competitive.
Skymuster satellite service is a white elephant that city connections have to pay for, despite Starlink stealing all it's subscribers.

>>105659098 (OP)
100Mbit is enough for me

>>105660498
>nooooo we heckin need gigabit fibre to every house so 1 million african refugees can watch 4k netflix in every room of their government provided house

kill yourself you disgusting shitskin invader

>>105659098 (OP)
It's literally just because the government is incompetent and/or malicious, no other real reason (in big cities anyway).

>>105660498
Did it ever occur to you that abject coomers could simply move closer to the city in order to obtain the bandwidth required for their craven purposes?

>>105660596
Not to mention digging up the copper cable so people couldn't remain on cheap ADSL2+ which is comparable to NBN speeds in a lot of cases.

>>105661386
>no goyim, you shouldn't live rural, you should all live in the city where we can keep tabs on you

>>105661655
Just pay extra for your internet if you want to jerk off in nature you retard. Don't expect every single connection in the city to cost more just so that you can get a discount.

>>105659192
Few bits to add: While the Liberals privatised Telstra, it was Labor before them that got the ball rolling on that by restructuring Telecom into Telstra. (AusPost and Telecom used be combined as Post-Master General - you can still find manhole covers with PMG on them).
Neither party considered separation of Telstra into network infrastructure and service companies, despite that being the format proposed for privatisation of state electricity monopolies around the same time. Rudd deserves credit for pointing that out as a big mistake when he announced NBN.
But also, before he cooked up the NBN on the back a serviette on a 30 minute flight with Conroy, Labor called for tenders to build out a NBN and received a couple of serious proposals: one from the company that did Singapore's equivalent and another from a consortium of the major ISPs of the time, but shitcanned it because Telstra had that septic CEO who basically told them to fuck off.

>>105659098 (OP)
They live at the end of the world, surrounded by water.