Today was the big day: I gave live streaming a test with the shiny new Fallout 4.

Unfortunately, the roughly 1 Mbps uplink on this ADSL connection simply isn’t enough for much beyond 360p. Maybe 480p if I’m really lucky.

We were expecting NBN availability in this area sometime in early 2016. What I expected locally was a 25/5 service, which would at least lift the upload side from about 1 Mbps to about 5 Mbps.

That was better, but I was still bitter because I’d been hoping for something much faster.

My original rant made it sound as though 25/5 was the network’s universal ceiling. It wasn’t. FTTN services were also sold at 50/20 and 100/40 where the line and service could support them.

So the factual correction is simple: 25/5 was the service I expected here, not the maximum NBN speed everywhere.

My 2015 reaction was considerably less measured:

“What a disappointment. Good job Australia. 25/5 for the next 10, maybe 50 years? Girt by sea and run by those in the ID-10t club.”

Five megabits up still sounded much better than one for live streaming, but it was nowhere near the future I’d been hoping for.

Fallout 4 live streams

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