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World First From Telstra – Mobile Broadband that tops 20Mbps

By Stewart Wilson on August 31st, 2010 No Comments

World First: Australian Telco Giant, Telstra, unveils 20Mbps wireless broadband to business customers in major CBD’s, selected metropolitan hubs and more than 100 regional centres.

Typical download speeds reported from Telstra range from 1.1Mbps to 20Mbps in selected areas with the Telstra Ultimate USB Modem which is up to twice as fast as Telstra’s current fastest Next G Modem. Two thousand devices have launched today for Telstra business customers, with the mainstream public service launching later this year.

iiNet changes broadband plans – offers 500GB on/off peak

By Terence Huynh on August 18th, 2010 1 Comment

iINet has announced today a huge overhaul of its broadband plans, including claiming to have Australia’s first plan to have a download quota of one terabyte – 500GB onpeak and 500GB offpeak – and are set to be as affordable as the previous plans from the ISP.

“iiNet is moving Australian broadband forward,” CEO Michael Malone said. “We’ve built a high performance network over the past five years, including great long term deals with our suppliers. We have oodles of bandwidth and it’s about time we used it.”

“Today we continue to lead the market with our latest innovation – Australia’s first one terabyte plan. It’s backed up by the best customer service, our high performance network and a reputation for delivering.”

“This isn’t about big plans, it’s about sustainable plans.”

FBI.com – conspiracy or intention?

By James Wilson on August 14th, 2010 No Comments

Here at Techgeek, we value freedom, life, democracy, love, peace, war, rainbow unicorns and hard drive failures. With reference to the first one, we are curious about the url fbi.com. Everyone of the TG that attempts to access this URL is redirected to 0.0.0.0! Coincidence? Conspiracy? We would like to know.

NBN 100x Faster than Originally Anticipated

By Tom Solari on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

When the National Broadband Network was announced, we were told that it would reach speeds of 100 Mbps but now NBN Co. has come out saying that the NBN will reach speeds of 1 Gbps meaning that the NBN will be 100 times faster than originally planned and just under 170 times faster than the average ADSL connection.

Even though the NBN is getting a huge speed increase, the costing for the network remains the same, $43 billion. This is because the feature to provide faster speeds is already built into the equipment that NBN Co. are using. The speed of the NBN can be upgraded to get even faster internet in the future.

The NBN would be sold to retailers at 1 Gbps with no limit on downloads though this is unlikely to be passed through to consumers as some ISP’s like Internode say it is unreasonable for consumers to have unlimited downloads.

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Poll: Which broadband plan is better? NBN or NBC?

By Terence Huynh on August 10th, 2010 1 Comment

ELECTION 2010: Since we like gauging opinion, we want to ask what you think about the recent policy announcement from the Liberal Party about their broadband plan.

So we have decided to compare the two plans from the Coalition and the Labor parties, and you can decide which you like by voting on our little poll at the end.

Swan hints at filter changes in interview

By Terence Huynh on July 29th, 2010 2 Comments

Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has revealed that changes could be made to the proposed and controversial internet filter in a recent interview with the ABC/Triple J’s news program Hack.

“Well, it’s possible we could move in different directions,” Swan told the program, also telling listeners that the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has taken into consideration the concerns and is looking and responding to the concerns.

No more IP addresses by this time next year

By Tom Solari on July 26th, 2010 2 Comments

By this time next year, experts predict that there will be no IPv4 addresses left. What does this mean? Everything that connects to the internet is assigned an IP address, at the moment it’s an IPv4 address, which is vital to that device being able to communicate with all the other computers on the internet.

When IPv4 was deployed, nobody ever thought that 4 billion addresses wouldn’t be enough. 30 years later, it isn’t enough and now experts predict that within 340 days there won’t be enough addresses to go around.

Halo: Reach modified for Australia!?

By Shane Luckman on July 25th, 2010 1 Comment

Thanks to the Government’s Classification Review System, Halo: Reach has been modified for Australia audiences.

Currently there are no reports on what has been modified but something drastic must have been done if Halo: Reach now has an MA15+ rating here, where the other Halo titles only received an M15+. Has Bungie added in anything too mature for Australian gamers?

“Strong Violence, Gaming experience may change online” – The only given reason why it has been modified.

NBN Construction to begin this month

By Terence Huynh on July 14th, 2010 No Comments

NBN Co has announced the names of the contractors that will build and deploy the network for the five sites dubbed the “first release sites” on the mainland, with construction to begin at the end of this month, according to its head of construction Patrick Flannigan.

Silcar will be constructing the network in Armidale, NSW, while South Australian electricity distribution network operator will be responsible for constructing the network in Willunga, SA.

Conroy delays internet filter plans as RC review takes place

By Terence Huynh on July 9th, 2010 1 Comment

Opponents to the internet filter have been given a temporary win as Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy announced that he will delay the implementation of the controversial filter.

The delay comes as a review into the classification scheme, mainly focusing on what is Refused Classification, is done and what is deemed Refused Classification on the internet – one of the main focuses on Conroy’s filtering plan.

Nineteen new locations announced for NBN rollout

By Terence Huynh on July 8th, 2010 3 Comments

NBN Co has announced the additional nineteen locations for its planned rollout of the National Broadband Network, bringing the total number of locations to 24. Fourteen of these locations are brand new locations, while five are adjacent to the already announced locations.

Bacchus Marsh (VIC), South Morang (VIC), Inner North Brisbane (QLD), Springfield Lakes (QLD), Toowomba (QLD), Riverstone in Western Sydney (NSW), Coffs Harbour (NSW), Modbury (SA), Prospect (SA), Victoria Park in Perth (WA), Geraldton (WA), Mandurah (WA), Casuarina (NT) and Gungahlin (ACT) have all been declared as rollout locations for the second phase of the rollout.

These join the two sites in NSW – Minnamurra/Kiama Downs and Armidale – Townsville in QLD, Brunswick in VIC and Willunga in SA.

“We have selected these second sites to build upon the work we are doing in the first release sites and to progress the rollout in areas of future network growth,” CEO Mike Quigley said.

Construction for these second release sites will commence in the second quarter of next year.

Melbourne selected as NBN Co’s Operation Centre

By Terence Huynh on July 2nd, 2010 1 Comment

Melbourne has been selected by NBN Co to be the home of the National Operations and Testing Facility, where the entire network will be monitored and managed, order fault repairs and service connections and allow telecommunication companies to test their services before their full-scale rollout.

As reported previously, Melbourne was in contention against Brisbane and Sydney.

China, Taiwan, HK get Chinese language domains

By Terence Huynh on June 27th, 2010 No Comments

With all the hoopla over the .xxx domain name, we forgot to report on this interesting topic. ICANN also approved the use of Chinese language top-level domains (TLD) for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

From today, alongside their Latin alphabet-based TLDs, China will have .中国 and .中國, Hong Kong will have .香港 and Taiwan will have .台灣 and .台湾. China and Taiwan have two domain names because one is written using Simplified Chinese and the other is written in Traditional. Hong Kong does not suffer this problem as its name is written the same way in both writing styles.

The approvals mean that Chinese users will now be able to type in their Chinese characters in their address bar, as opposed to writing the Chinese-character website names with their Latin alphabet-based TLD.

It’s official, .xxx domains get the go ahead from ICANN

By Terence Huynh on June 26th, 2010 No Comments

Porn, get ready for your own industry-specific top-level domain (TLD) name.

ICANN has today announced that it has approved the controversial .xxx domain, which will be specifically used to host sites that are within the porn industry; just like .aero is for the air-travel business and .org is for organisations.

“It’s been a long time coming, but I’m excited about the fact that .xxx will soon become a reality. This is great news,” ICM Registry’s chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement.

Porn to get its own .xxx domain option

By Terence Huynh on June 25th, 2010 No Comments

ICANN, the organisation that oversees all domain names and registrations – including the familiar dot-com – is expected to give the go ahead for the controversial .xxx top-level domain (TLD) for websites containing pornography.

According to an ICAAN attorney talking to Reuters; despite initially against such a proposal, members of the board have argued that the creation on the basis to maintain neutrality in dealing with assignations. If calls are successful, then the porn industry will be allowed to register for a .xxx domain voluntary – once it passes through a due diligence test and negotiations on who will handle the domain (most likely ICM Registry, who has pushed this for a couple of years).

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