Broadband Heaven or Hell?

[Rhisiart]

¢48 a month (£24) with Zen

Normal:



Whilst downloading a 147 MB file from .Mac:

[VirtualTracy]

I have a fiber optic connection that is throttled down to a piffling 15 Mbps.

I do feel very sorry for the Aussies still stuck at dial-up speeds...

This doesn't help:

Fast Tassie plans on hold pending better backhaul

Currently, broadband backhaul capacity across Bass Strait is limited to a monopoly supplier, Telstra. As a result, it is six times more expensive for Internode to transfer data between Melbourne and Hobart than it is to move data between Melbourne and the United States.

A friend of mine lives near one of only 2 exchanges that are offering Extreme ADSL2+ and was without a connection for a couple of weeks as Internode uses Telstras infrastructure and only a Telstra Tech was allowed to do the repair.

[Qion]

$49.99 a month for Cox cable (cheaper with digital cable).[/URL]

That's a fairly incredible rate!

[rubaiyat]

I have a fiber optic connection that is throttled down to a piffling 15 Mbps.

I do feel very sorry for the Aussies still stuck at dial-up speeds...

Not quite.

I am on 2Mbps, and I am jealous of your 15Mbps. You can get that here but it costs an arm and a leg.

The price we paid for our Government flogging off the publicly owned Telco and turning it into a God awful near monopoly.

btw What is everybody's DL? Do they cap it or shape it over a certain limit, because at those speeds you can DL one heck of a lot of material. I do 60 to 80Gb/mth on my plan.

[Viro]

I've got unlimited downloads, but I don't really download much apart from patches, and checking out source trees over the net. That said, I do browse flickr and various photography sites and I'm a big fan of viewing full uncompressed photos.

I use about 40 GB a month.