Resigned to the fact that I might be forever connected to the t'internet via a piece of string and 2 tin cans (average download speed around 40k a second:frown, unbelievably, workmen have appeared this week laying fibre optic on the estate as part of the NBN !!!. Wasn't expecting that at all, thought we might be years away in our little backwater. They estimate it will take around 2 months. Woooohooo, P.A.R.T.Y :notworthy::yes:

 

When we lived in Melbourne, I could download at around 600kb/sec = around 5mbps which was ok, When we moved here in November we got around 300kb/sec = 2.4mbps which was still ok. Just happy to get adsl, given we're at the end of a valley around 10km from the exchange. Speed slowly dropped to around 150kb/sec = 1.2mbps around a month ago and for the last couple of weeks is dropped to a ludicrous 30/40kbps. I can only assume the problem is contention ratio, with more people being connected to the exchange, but telstra obviously having no interest in upgrading the infrastructure (seemingly now due to the fact that the nbn rollout is underway in the area.) I have a wireless dongle for when we go for weekends away and the wireless dongle is now faster than the ADSL2! I'm not bothered about blazing fast speed, just something fast enough to support skype video calls etc (which is an impossibility at the moment) and I'm sure the kids will be happy, as we're forever having to tell them to come off the Internet as it makes it impossible for us to work if they're on the internet at the moment, due to poor speed.