Sorry mate, but us flyers here in Aus land have to suck it up. We've got the crappiest internet network in the world and pay top dollar for it, no thanks to Telstra's monopoly on the copper networks. Sure we have fibre optic nodes, but there are only a few outlets that connect to world. I'm with Telstra ADSL, I can't get ADSL2 or Naked DSL / Cable in my area but I can get roughly 260ms on War Clouds. The trouble is I often get kicked because of the spikes. I ran a trace from my PC to War Clouds one day and found my packets run through 13 or so servers, it's carzy! To add to the spikes you've got all the teenie poppers downloading their fandangled MP3's and You tube "Chick Chick Boom" videos which also slows things down (somewhat). Our only salvation is the Governments multi billion dollar upgrade plan, but don't hold your breath, it's going to be 5 to 10 years before we see any fruit from that.
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