Well in Australia we have to pay from $69-$89($AU) for 1500/256 ADSL and thats not even unlimited download it is normally caped at 20gig a month. Atleast one company has started to roll out ADSL2 ( speeds up 12mb in Oz land) but thats only in the large cities, so me being in the "Bush" in a city of over 80,000 less than 2 hours from Brisbane ( Capital City for Queensland ) I will not get this service for another 2-3 years if I'm lucky.
The problem is 30K's dosn't go very far at all in country Australia, normall its 100k's between town's ( 1 fuel station + 1 pub = town) even further as you move west.
So whats the use in testing it in major metropolitan areas were people already have DSL access. Most people in the bush are lucky to get 33.3K Dail-up on a good day, worse when it is raining:(
Shouldn't they test it in the bush.....o thats right they wouldn't make as much money do that will they.
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Well in Australia we have to pay from $69-$89($AU) for 1500/256 ADSL and thats not even unlimited download it is normally caped at 20gig a month. Atleast one company has started to roll out ADSL2 ( speeds up 12mb in Oz land) but thats only in the large cities, so me being in the "Bush" in a city of over 80,000 less than 2 hours from Brisbane ( Capital City for Queensland ) I will not get this service for another 2-3 years if I'm lucky.
The problem is 30K's dosn't go very far at all in country Australia, normall its 100k's between town's ( 1 fuel station + 1 pub = town) even further as you move west. So whats the use in testing it in major metropolitan areas were people already have DSL access. Most people in the bush are lucky to get 33.3K Dail-up on a good day, worse when it is raining :(
Shouldn't they test it in the bush.....o thats right they wouldn't make as much money do that will they.