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Hi Leon
If you think it is bad now wait till you see what it is like in 12 months.
I use a landline with ADSL2 and find that many sites that loaded in 2 seconds with dial up now take over a minute on ADSL2 at peak periods. At least when I get to the sites I need the download speed is normal.
With everyone dropping their land lines the use of wireless is becoming saturated. Wireless has a much more finite bandwidth compared to your "exclusive" landline and space has to be shared with the number of people on each serving point at a given time and the number of serving points is not increasing at the same rate as the users.
The much vaunted NBN network will not improve the internet for most unless they connect direct to the fibre. The use of wireless will still be the order of the day for those without direct connection and performance will depend on the number of users on the distribution point at any given time.
The biggest user of space of course is people streaming video and other high capacity data streams that hog the space and of course when the NBN comes the cable TV suppliers will want most of the fibre capacity to distribute their products so that they don't have the expense of satellites.
Barry
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