Originally Posted by
ro-monster
You're thinking of what gets passed off as high speed to residential users. But we run a business that relies on the internet, and the service we have is much much faster than that. There are large portions of the US, even in some urban areas, where this kind of connection isn't obtainable.
That is changing somewhat here with the roll-out of the National Broadband Network using fibre-optic cabling. It's supposed to be faster than anything that's available with wireless or the old copper wire network. But there are some bottlenecks.
The roll-out has been expensive and slow and the whole project is teetering on failure.
Supposedly, domestic connections are supposed to have access to the same speeds as businesses, and its great promise was instantaneous interactivity for things such as education and medical procedures. We have to wait and see...
One of the factors for finding a new residence for us was that the issues with the NBN connections had already been solved, and it looks like they may have been, although we won't find out until we finally move.