Yeah, Australia sucks for internet. we have no FIOS, we are still on copper lines, we have tiny data limits, and telstra actually owns all the telephone lines and is forced to rent them out to other companies... and the worst part of all: telstra has about 50% of the market but they are the worst ISP ever.
I complained to the about my upload problems (progress bar says finished instantly but file not uploaded) and they told me to reset Internet Explorer which i don't even use... I told them i used Firefox. I have had the same problem across 3 operating systems... Their "Tech Support" is absolutely horrible.
/Rant
I'm on ADSL2+ now, but i'm still capped til the 13th
We went over our inital download limit of 25gb (again, telstra FTL), then our new plan was applied, we got un-capped so i let my brother download whatever. Turns out all they did was give us another 6gb of downloads... which was eaten up in less than a day, so yeah. 64kbps sucks
Anyway i talked with my brother to arrange that when i'm gaming or using the net he won't download anything. Score 1 for me.
At least i learned that torrents can make your ping go higher than 1000 in CS:S. I was warping all over the place.