On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 10:09:27 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:


>For sure. I'm sorta back to the dial up days again even though I have
>satellite broadband. The problem is the service is heavily
>oversubscribed, it was fine for the first six months. Anyway, it's now
>slow during peak hours, and with web sites getting more and more
>bloated, things are now as slow as the dial up days were for me.
>
>The satellite I'm on is government subsidised (part of the 'National
>broadband Network') and was always intended to be temporary. I'm
>overdue to be moved onto the new NBN satellite, when it'll actually
>happen I don't know. IIRC that is something like 25Mbps whereas the
>one I'm on currently is 6Mbps, but is actually closer to 64Kbps. Can't
>view videos and certain sites at all... I can't even upload a small
>pic during peak hours. And yet during offpeak hours, I download about
>300GB per month.

Away from the cities, its the same here. Sparse population and long
distances and ISPs just don't want to do it as it is not profitable.
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