Originally Posted By: CKN
Wow-your right that's pathetic. No other Internet Offering in your area?
ADSL is sketchy - some providers will sign you up, and others would turn you down due to distance from the exchange (and the probability of complaints). Because of the distance, the reports I'm hearing on the
Whirlpool Forums are that you'd get an ADSL connection that could be
very flaky, and probably only good for about 1.75mbps, at best. The exchange we're on is located in one of the cities' older suburbs (1950s and 1960s), and the copper lines are deteriorated and very congested. Our suburb is about 25-30 years newer, but we're constrained by the bodgy phone lines not far away.
Most of the suburbs on that copper loop are gearing up for the Government's fan-dangled "National Broadband Network," and what I'm hearing is the places that have it, who live closer to the old exchange are very displeased with the speed of the service. Its supposed to be Fibre-to-the-Node. Hopefully our suburb fares better with newer telephone cables...
Suffice it to say, unless one of the other householders are doing something greedy like torrenting movies, you can get by just fine with 1.5-3mbps. Even watching YouTue at 480p isn't that difficult, surprisingly enough.