aussie broadband is a joke!

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why does has australia have the worlds worst broadband. Here down under. slow internet with ridiculous download limits unlike the rest of the world why? I am paying 40 dollars for 8g lousy gb for slow 3G internet

Two things come to mind,

Firstly I live in regional Victoria and I have access to 100M/bit if I want to use it, presently I am on a 30M/bit plan giving me 60GB of data for A$60 which I feel is not too bad

Secondly provided the ludites in from the Liberal Party (Right wing conservatives, how they ever got the name Liberal is beyond me) do not get into power, we will have a telecommunications system second to non within about 8 years.

Australia is a country barely smaller than the US with less than 10% of the the US population, so from my point of view the planned National Broadband Network is nothing short of extraordinary.

Oh and a third thought just popped in, telstra have just announced the roll-out of 4G http://www.cnet.com.au/telstra-next-g-to-be-4g-in-2011-339309202.htm

Telstra is most expensive ISP in Australia.
I have wireless and it costs $29.95 for 200mb and i have adsl and its about $79.95

day light robbery.

Should it really cost that much for internet in Australia? No. I don't live there, but I really do think Internet should be cheap.

NZ and australia have the stupidest and most expensive internet rates ive ever seen.

In the US I pay 45 bucks a month for 15mbit unlimited data.

In NZ I had to pay 60 bucks for 1 gig a month @ 2mbit speed.

Its not in line with the rest of the world but as of late we are doing pretty well. I heard this week it costs $35 per mbit/s to haul data from Australia to the rest of the world, which is most of our internet usage. Do the math. (It used to be several thousand per mbit/s!)

If you're stuck using a wireless connection as your primary internet access, that does kinda suck.

Mind you I'd rather pay for X GB of data rather than an unlimited ISP which tries to throttle BitTorrent/VoIP/stuff they don't like and has stupidly high contention ratios
One network engineer mentioned to me a US vendor which sold DSL headend gear in the US which didn't even have a fast enough input for a single ADSL2 port

Most attempts at unlimited internet here in the past have been shot down by consumers who wouldn't put up with it.. TPG seem to have mixed success with theirs (but they've always had mixed success..)

And we have real competition in the ISP market rather than cableco+telco monopoly.

In College I can download a hundred and twenty megs in one minute

I am in California, USA in a Rural area were the only broadband is Satellite internet or 3G. I have Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go 3G I am paying $40 for 5GB then after that throttle. At home I can barely get it to do above 100Kbps during the day alot of times. The landline service is only Dial-up 46.6Kbps

I pay £18 a month for 13.5MBps down and 0.8MBps up. It's actually meant to be 24MBps but we never get that.

I have a $69 plan with iPrimus, ADSL2+, 20/1, 60GB download limit/month. It's suitable for me, even if I only end up using about 10GB of my downloads each months now since I've seemed to cut back on my online gaming.

Seriously, if you live in Australia, it pays to shop around for a good ISP. Here's a good tool to help you find a decent ISP in Australia: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/

I hate that Telstra owns and monopolizes the internet towers, but Its worse when most places I live in, around the western suburbs of Melb. that unless I get wireless I can't get the net at all...and wireless is expensive!

£30~ for 17meg down 2.3 up, im paying more for no thottling. All the large communication companies thottle speeds now, so i went for one that caters for heavy users; im close to 350gig a month download. Also needed the baud for gaming.

Download is fine at about 16Mb/s, but upload is horrible. It never goes above 0.3Mb/s. Although there are no upload/download limits, the slow upload is really a bottleneck for online gaming. If there was a way to increase it I would, but nope, Time Warner Cable sucks. We should really all be using fiber optics right now, in the past 10 years computer speeds have improved a whole lot, but bandwidth has hardly changed.