Australian Broadband Networks
Area Mesh enables you to access, build and own the local communication infrastructure of your neighbourhood.
You can be:
- Local Node - bridging nodes within a Local Mesh together.
- Edge Node - bridging Area Mesh with the wider internet.
Both roles are as simple as connecting your Mesh Node with to the broadband router on your site (either using an ethernet cable or through WiFi radio).
Campus network aims to provide a base upload speed of around 50Mbps (based on low cost 802.11n WiFi radios operating on a single 20 MHz channel with one antenna and 400ns guard interval).
Using a 1GByte as standard (approximate size of a 10 minute video with 1920x1080 resolution at 30 frames per second using advanced encoding (e.g. AV1) .
| VOLUME in bytes | SPEED in bits/second | TIME in minutes:seconds |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 G | 1 M | 66:40 |
| 0.5 G | 5 M | 13:20 |
| 1 G | 1 M | 133:20 |
| 1 G | 5 M | 26:40 |
| 1 G | 10 M | 13:20 |
| 1 G | 15 M | 8:53 |
| 1 G | 20 M | 6:40 |
| 1 G | 25 M | 5:20 |
If you are offering resources to other Private Cyberspaces over the internet, then an internet UPLOAD bandwidth of at least 10Mbps is recommended.
If you CANNOT afford a Upload speed of 10Mbps
1. NBN
NBN is owned by the Commonwealth of Australia as a Government Business Enterprise.
NBN Residential Links
| Type | Download | Upload |
|---|---|---|
| NBN 12 | 12Mbps | 1Mbps |
| NBN 25/5 | 25Mbps | 5Mbps |
| NBN 25/10 | 25Mbps | 10Mbps |
| NBN 50 | 50Mbps | 20Mbps |
| NBN 100/20 | 100Mbps | 20Mbps |
| NBN 100/40 | 100Mbps | 40Mbps |
| NBN 250 | 250Mbps | 25Mbps |
| NBN 1000 | 1000Mbps | 50Mbps |
NBN Asymmetrical Links
| Download | Upload |
|---|---|
| 100Mbps | 40Mbps |
| 1000Mbps - 500Mbps | 50Mbps |
| 250Mbps | 100Mbps |
| 500Mbps | 200Mbps |
| 1000Mbps | 400Mbps |
NBN Symmetrical Links
| Range | Increment |
|---|---|
| 10Mbps - 100Mbps | 10Mbps increments |
| 100Mbps - 500Mbps | 50Mbps increments |
| 500Mbps - close to 1Gbps | 100Mbps increments |
| Close to 1Gbps - close to 10Gbps | 1000Mbps increments |
In comparing between different NBN speed options, NBN like to use 10GB file for download and 1GB file for upload. The upload time required range from within 4 minutes to 3 hours!
Unfortunately, a lot of Australians are on the lower end of that range:
Numbers above in thousands as at Dec 2022 (Source: Statista)
2. Uniti
Owns the following wholesale broadband brands:
3. TPG
Owns the following wholesale broadband brands:
