Trevor...I would be happy with ADSL2+ but I will not get this on a RIM as telstra stopped top hat roll outs and the coalition NBN will not better my current infrastructure without removing the pair gain...which will not happen...period! They (Telstra re: top hat) stopped this due to their foxtel interests.
Funny thing when campaigning Telstra to upgrade the RIM. I found the infrastructure project manager for our estate. He said that Telstra told him what infrastructure was required for the estate and they installed this...which was minimum spec required. Telstra knew this at the time so did the manager (edit: this is the way it was done back then, around 1994~6, and I suspect still is).
1995 was Telstra name change...but government still held many many shares
till 2007 and T3. Telstra was then in a position of market domination (1995 ~2004 and still is). The reason I started petitioning was due to Telstra going to Yarraglen (15klms away) and installing ASDL infrastructure free as part of the incumbent government's "broadband for the bush" deals.
Meanwhile back at Lilydale, a suburb of Melbourne...no soup for you, stuck on dial up @18.5K...yes Tesltra petitioned the government & senate (way back) to lower their copper transmission obligations for voice carriage to 18.5kbps min speeds.
So if I didn't petition I would still be stuck on 18.5Kbps, like many many others on RIMs. (edit: our RIM services 450 houses or so and has one minimux servicing 96 homes with ADSL1), the rest...no soup (no ADSL) for you. Is this fair to them?
Sometimes the government has to step in and fix things and this is one of those times. I see the FTTH NBN the way of the future, a basic right for infrastructure just like dams, hospitals, schools etc.