We are currently about to launch a new website which deals in specialized wireless equipment. Ideally suited for clients wanting a non standard wifi solution.
Such solutions may be a wireless link to connect up a farm, kiosk, motel, bed and breakfast, caravan park. We plan to have the new product line available by December 2009 and hope to promote them on our new url called Wireless Networks.net.au Stay tuned until the site is completed and products are in stock.
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If you search Google News, there are 172 articles online about the proposed Internet filtering.
It's a flawed idea for many reasons, starting with the most often cited one: to prevent child pornography in Australia. That's how it's being sold in Australia anyway. Internationally, the sales pitch is to filter any sites unsuitable for children. -- Now that is a broad category with a huge fuzzy area around the outside!
How anyone can be sexually aroused by a child is beyond me. There are a few who are though. They need therapy, not censorship.
Initially, 10,000+ sites will be banned, invisible to Australian Internet users. Are there really 10,000 sites out there with child pornography? Maybe. But the problem is that list. The Australian government has proven itself to be small minded and short sighted in all dealing with the Internet. The recent idiocy of the Copyright Law amendments is one case in point. After declaring that anyone who had a DVD burner on their computer was liable for a $6600 ticket -because they had the means to breach copyright!- the law had to be specifically amended over 250 times. And is still being amended... The authors of the law ignored the realities of the world around them and over 4 years of submissions to come up with that law.
The reason Australia doesn't have adequate broadband access is simply that the previous Howard administration didn't want an informed public. Mr Howard illustrated this prediliction in more than just technology. There was a 450 page book published the last year of his administration titled, "How John Howard destroyed public debate in Australia." When there are no constitutional protections against these sorts of governments, there is no reason to trust the government to censor websites (or anything else.)
IT worker Jon Seymour, who runs the blogs Broadbanned Revolution and Filtering Fallacies, said he was concerned the filter had the potential to be misused.
"Even if there's no realistic scenario where it's going to be abused now, it's certainly possible that future governments might choose to use (it) to start frustrating political opinion," he said
"We have to resist this now, because once it's in place it will be very hard to dismantle."
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Broadband applications are processed every day of the year but the process has not got any easier.
The first step is to find out what ISP's you can connect to at your residence. I personally use Whirlpool to perform a quick line check and follow the prompts to see what plans and speeds are available. Once you have chosen your ISP and plan you can lodge your application and then wait 24 to 48 hours for a response and confirmation of install date or activation date.
It all sounds a simple process but in Australia it is not. After you can done your research, picked your isp and plan in most cases you application is rejected. Why do we live with overpriced, under serviced, limited data plans to choose from ? Simply because no one cares for the people who have a need to use the internet in Australia.
After years of living in a country like suburb we finally made the option to move to a suburb within the cbd. A further 9 month wait prior to ADSL2+ plans being available and i lodged my application to finally connect to high speed internet.
Once again i was told my current isp could not connect me to there plans as my phone number come from a sub exchange and therefore no highspeed services where available. In other words i could have my adsl2+ broadband providing i had to pay $90 dollars a month for the service with Telstra or a Telstra Wholesale Partner and on a 20 gig plan. I have finally made the move and connected to a ADSL2+ provider partner and been using the service now for 2 months.
My findings have been simple. The service has been poor, The line speed fluctuates dramatically from a low broadband connection on some downloads to full speed on others.
Until such time as fibre to the node has been implemented i suspect we will all be well overcharged for second rate connections and the application process will still take weeks instead of being connected within a few hours as some other countries experience. In fact with fibre to the home you are already connected when you move in you just need to pick and choose a isp and have your line programmed.
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It has been over 12 months since the new government has stepped into power and one thing is for certain. There is no high speed broadband network across Australia Yet! The cost to build the network is going up every month. It is completely unethical for the current phone providers to build it. They stuffed up the first roll out with ADSL 1 now we are giving them the opportunity to go a second time with our future. It seems we are living in a third world country being at least 10 maybe 15 years behind the rest of the world. I can walk two doors down from my place and fellow friends and customers cannot connect to broadband due to technicalities. Until competitors have equal access to the copper in the street and the network there is no chance of us moving forward, we are in the hands of the crummiest, dirtiest players and i wish i could pass a vote to a foreign company to come in with the latest technology and roll it out for everyone and yeah sometime soon would be nice.
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The broadband tender in Australia has become a JOKE. A complete waist of tax payers money. The only company who will be successful on the bid will be Telstra. The delays are costing small business in Australia millions of dollars per day in lost income potential. The current roll out will ensure small business, home users and students continue to be ripped off by a overpriced, over subscribed outdated service. The internet speed here is well behind and even with the upgrade we are stilling chasing our tails by superior services in overseas countries. We are at least 8 years behind. Are we buying overseas outdated equipment for our upgrades ? It is a question i have asked myself for several years. ADSL 1 was a complete stuffup and already 5 to 6 years behind when it was installed.. It is still not available in a lot of built up areas due to exchanges peaking at capacity, no future plans to upgrade until numbers are reached and poor quality, money saving solutions by installing rims with limited access. We desperately need overseas investments into the infrastructure to increase competition and perhaps alternative solutions where possible to copper in the ground options. With wireless becoming more popular every day and faster internet speeds being achieved and more reliable. Where are we going with this tender ? Another dead end for the next years is most likely.
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Image via WikipediaA recent Herald Sun survey raised a lot of eyebrows when it showed 74% of police officers felt the current Police Commissioner, Christine Nixon, should be replaced. The story was blasted across the media for over a week. But that wasn't the only controversial conclusion contained in the survey:
A recent survey by the Herald Sun has found that more than 70 per cent of Victorian police believe speed and red light cameras are more about revenue-raising than preserving road safety. A point we have tried so very hard to get across.
Out of the 3459 police officers questioned, only 6 per cent (207) strongly agreed speed cameras really do help save lives. Most interestingly though, the main duty of police officers - to serve and protect - is not shared by 42 per cent of the force, who strongly believe making money for the Government is their main role! (Car Advice, 11 Apr 2008) Read the comments by InTheJob, a police officer speaking frankly about the issue and others.
This story was picked up in the blogosphere, and hasn't had any coverage in the media of any kind. A very valid question is: Why? Is it because the motto of the Victorian Police should be changed? How about: "To collect and preserve (the tax surplus"?
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The Univ of Melbourne has a new toy, and a great collaboration and research tool. Nicknamed "videoconferencing on steroids" by the University vice-chancellor, a 1 Gbit per second link has been set up to the rest of the world. That's about 1000 times faster than the fastest home ADSL connection. There's already a YouTube channel (for PolyComm, and very commercial.)
When I first came to Australia, I thought this was a country that defined the reason the Internet exists. A modern country with a well-educated population spread out across vast distances. Distances which become almost meaningless over the Internet. I saw business, medical and social applications everywhere I turned. Australia was made for the Internet; and the Internet was made for Australia. Even years ago in the days of Milnet, when we -groups of dreamers and techies- gathered to let our imaginations run over a few beers, Australia almost always came up as an example of how much could be done for our southern hemisphere neighbor. Admittedly, a lot of what came up was military and probably classified. But then, so were all of us.
"I can participate in intense collaboration without taking a week turnaround (to fly to the US)," Professor Jackson said (in the first demonstration of the new technology.)
He pictured neurology experts gathering in a virtual conference over a super-high-definition brain scan, to identify the source of a patient's epilepsy and design a safe surgical operation to cure the condition.
The huge high definition screen fills a couple of walls in the conference hall.
"This will change the way we do research, fundamentally," said Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis over the video link from California.
No kidding. Oughta be a lot of fun too. This project only cost $600,000. Every state in Australia could have one. Now that the technology is proven, the costs (should be?) significantly less.
Premier John Brumby, who hasn't really defined his leadership role yet to me, kicked in $120,000 from the Victorian state coffers. I could learn to like Brumby - as soon as he gets rid of Rob Hulls...
In Australia as in the US, it's the liberals (small 'l') who seem to catch onto the value of new ideas and implement them. Look at the differences between the priorities of the Democrats (left or liberal) and the Republicans (right wing conservatives) in the US. The Democrats are calling for the US to lower greenhouse emissions by 50% by 2050, for example. The Republicans want more studies.
Now, how long until this technology is extended to all the capital cities of Australia? - and into the medical centers of outback Australia? How difficult will a portable link be? When do the leaders start looking at technology as a means to supply valuable services instead of just counting pennies?
In a country that cannot seem to get fibre installed anywhere for consumers, will this just be another means for universities and big business to overwhelm the economy?
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Broadband Installed was established to respond to the many frustrations Australians experienced when converting from dial up to broadband. Our expertise is dealing with the quirks of broadband providers such as Telstra, Optus, iPrimus, and others. These providers were slow to respond to customer needs. Broadband Installed provided the services expected from larger companies and more - protecting clients' computers and keeping them running smart. Broadband Installed went further to respond to the needs of clients, safely linking students' computers to share the broadband connection while protecting parents' home offices.
Australia took to the Internet faster per capita than any other nation on Earth.
Then in the last few years, Australian households and business have moved to broadband as soon as it was made available. The exodus to the Internet happened in spite of restrictive regulations. Australians are still installing broadband faster than all but four nations in the latest OECD study (Dec, 2006) - an increase of 5.4% of households in the last year. Sadly, that still means only 3.8 million Australian households and businesses have broadband; about 19.2% of Internet users in Australia.
Regressive government policies hiding behind poor regulation, have meant that the average Australia has lost out on billions in international business. It has also meant that Australians are not as Internet-savvy as their competitors in APEC and the West.
It is long past time for the Australian government to stop being Internet-phobic; and trying to install that fear in the Australian public.
