[fghorow]

Wet string? OK, fine.

But I defy ADSL to work over something really challenging. Like Telstra copper in Australia.

[hedora]

You think the outback’s bad? Try getting it to work over AT&T copper in heart of Silicon Valley!

[zwayhowder]

Came here to make the same joke. Sure it isn't an insightful comment worthy of great praise. But consider my hat tipped to you.

3.5mb down is faster than my mother used to get from her farm north-west of Kempsey NSW. Though to be fair to Telstra she lived about 30km from the nearest town not 2m like the length of wet string.

[fghorow]

When I lived in Perth about a decade ago, I had a DSL line from an exchange about 3-ish km away. If I remember correctly, I got 512kbps down, and 56k modem speeds up.

This was not outer-whoop-whoop either. Metro Perth.

Telstra. Ya gotta love 'em.