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NBN Is Working On Making Copper As Fast As Fibre, In A Few Years
As the NBN develops every year, the technology underpinning it improves. That’s the main hope we have for Australia’s copper infrastructure, which is being used for fibre to the node — and, potentially, fibre to the distribution point. The NBN is trialing a variety of technologies that promise to massively improve the speed of existing…
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NBN Gives Telstra $1.6B To Upgrade Australia’s HFC Cable Network
Telstra and nbn have signed a contract to build out and speed up the telco’s existing hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) cable internet network, bringing it up to current standards to “deliver nbn™ broadband capability” to customers that will be moved onto it as part of the current government’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network. The deal is…
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The Only Thing I’ll Miss About Cable Is My DVR
As far as watching TV goes, the experience provided by a traditional cable provider is crap. Slow hardware, clunky interfaces, unwanted bundled channels. Streaming services are slowly replacing all of this and thanks goodness for them. But there’s an aspect of the old way that I will sorely miss — the DVR and its magical…
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Your Set-Top Box Is An Energy-Sucking Monster (But It Doesn’t Have To Be)
An innocent little cable box can suck up more electricity than your actual TV. The most galling part though? Up to two-thirds of its power-hogging actually happens in “idle” mode, when you’re not even using it. The good news is device makers have the technical ability to make cable boxes that don’t waste so much…