Internet speed check

[James McDonald]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 2:45 PM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>   
>> Ben Duncan wrote:
>>     
>>> If I had speeds like that...
>>>       
>> I'm in what we call an ADSL 1 area so we are limited to 1500/256.
>>
>> There are a few area's (major capital cities) that have 8000kbps services.
>>
>> Fortunately the new government over here (Australia) says it's going to
>> spend $2 billion on a high speed broadband for the whole country... I
>> would love to be able to stream a movie without having to watch it in
>> buffer segments.
>>     
>
> You trust your govt not to fsck up internet service?  Anyway, that's
> what bittorrent's for  :)
>
>   
I don't trust any human government. And the other problem is the big 
Telco's protecting their monopolies...