[Tandum (Robin)]

Peter, they only bought the HFC networks, the older ones will just die in the dust. HFC theoretically should run up to 300Mbs but that speed is shared to a cluster. I dunno what the cluster rate is here but overseas it can be 500 to a node. Try your cable speed at 3am and again at 3:10 in the afternoon. That difference is school kids.

If you check out iinet's home page, they flog NBN by speed. Slowest is 12Mbs or I should say up to 12Mbs so who knows.

That's the problem, if everyone had optic fibre the end speed would be known, not a guess. I fixed a 12 year old PC today. Ran fine but took 2.5 hours to copy 150gig between disks. According to the law, all you can use soon will be the NBN. What if it's stuffed, you have no recourse?

My son has fibre in his city apartment. I've been sitting on 4Mbs out here in the suburbs for years. I found out everyone is speed limited here due to congestion to the exchange. I bring this up to them yearly to get a month off the bill.

Businesses I service are being crippled by slow Internet. God damn everything is in the cloud now plus businesses are becoming more mobile and are working in the field with tablets and need dat from the office.

Mobile speed is great. I've seen 95Mbs on my phone (Voda) but that's useless to an office system tied to 0.9Mbs on the uplink with dozens of people connected at that end.