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so you've just connected to the NBN but every time you use the Internet your connection goes cool potato so why is your internet so slow and why do you have that crushing sense of loneliness every time you're not on Facebook well we can't help you with that last thing but there is one factor that could be affecting your speeds it's called CVC and we're here to explain it with toy cars I'm not taking this out of the box I'd bought it at Graceland it's worth a lot what is C BC and why should you care this is the information superhighway the National Broadband Network has been built by NBN the company but NBN doesn't actually sell you your internet connection retailers like Telstra Optus TPG and I don't buy access from NBN and sell it to you the end user to get you onto the Internet your ISP or retailer has to pay for two things AVC and CVC AVC is the flat rate that your retailer pays to get you onto the NBN think of it like the car you drive on the highway the highest speed tiers have a more expensive car while the lower speed tiers have a less expensive car the next cost is CBC now that's the fee that retailers have to pay to actually get bad with the more CVC then the more bandwidth that internet retailers get for their customers retailers pay for this bandwidth at exchanges across the country they're known as points of interconnect like old-school telephone exchanges they're the place where the NBN connects to Telstra Optus or TP G's network and then ultimately to you think of them like on-ramps for the superhighway so your ISP estimates how many people they think need the NBN in a certain area and pay for as much of this bandwidth as they think they'll need the more people the wider the on-ramp the problem comes when Internet service providers try to save money by skimping on CBC if they haven't bought enough bandwidth you get bottlenecks every time someone tries to go online too many cars not enough room on the road the problem is you don't know how much CVC your telco is buying they don't actually tell you and they don't want to buy too much so they're hoping that light Internet users subsidize heavy internet users but it doesn't always work that way two people with the same ISP on the same speed tear could have totally different experiences on the NBN if your ISP hasn't bought enough bandwidth at your point of interconnect everyone at that exchange will suffer when you all go online on mass and if nothing changes it's only going to get worse we're streaming more netflix uploading more stupid videos to Facebook and connecting more gadgets to the internet than ever before we just need a network that can handle it