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> I am an Aussie and I can say that your quota argument is BS, you should be able to
> get a decent plan with lots of quota from the likes of iiNet or TPG.
> I am with TPG on their 500 GB plan and I watch YouTube (and various slightly dodgier
> YouTube clones), download games and big files and otherwise sit on the Internet all
> day and I have never come close to exceeding my quota (last billing cycle I only used
> 42GB or so of my quota)
>
> And that's not even the highest plan on offer, if I wanted I could go to "unlimited"
> and get even more.

Yeah, but TPG domestic service has absolutely terrible latency at the best of times, so it sucks if you need to use interactive applications over it, and the backhaul gets congested at busy times because of all those people with "unlimited" plans making the throughput suck as well a significant proportion of the time.

TPG business fibre connections perform somewhat better, but they're far more expensive and they're not permitted to terminate the fibre at residential buildings anyway because of the NBN monopoly provisions. (Even if they could, getting fibre pulled through an old apartment building without provisions for it would be ridiculously expensive.)

> With the exception of the poor sods who can only get ADSL through Telstra kit (or
> worse cant get ADSL at all and have to get wireless) the whole "Australian download
> quotas suck" argument is total BS.

I'm using Internode ADSL for both my Sydney and Melbourne home connections. The latency is quite good, SSH to Germany doesn't feel to lagged, gaming is fun, SIP works nicely. I get unmetered Steam content, Internode mirrored content (including Linux distros fortunately), ABC TV and more. I could move to newer plans with a bigger quotas, but I'd end up having to pay more and uploads would count against the quota as well as downloads. I'm sticking with my current cheap plans where only downloads are metered.

> And I say this as someone who has been using the Internet in Australia since "using
> the Internet" meant dialing up a Unix box with a modem and a terminal program so I do
> know what I am talking about.

That doesn't mean anything. It's possible to use something all your life without ever understanding it.