The broadband speed chart is courtesy of The Australian. Rather sobering isn't it, that Australia is slower than Mexico and Turkey. It's kinda humbling. And broadband in Australia is very expensive --3 times more than in the US. Even more sobering considering we are talking about the infrastructure of the 21st century.

I've noticed that ADSL2+ has slowed down---it appears that the flow of data in Australia hits blockage points---becomes clogged up as it were. So we have severe slowdowns due to Telstra? Or is the slow data flow the result of the limited capacity of the cables from Australia to the US and Europe? The international transit capacity of the ISP 's are increasing due to a boom in data-intensive online services such as BitTorrent and YouTube.

Something is definitely amiss. If speeds increase, this will only increase demand for overseas traffic, as there is hardly anything 'data intensive' in Australia worth getting outside of the ABC.

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