> Are there any WISPs in your area? They should be able to hook you up in a single day with a direct connection to their network.
The parent could certainly get a 4G connection with Telstra or Optus, and it'd probably even outperform DSL in terms of raw bandwidth. But the costs are monstrous and typically cap out at ~10GB/quota a month - not really tenable to operate a business on that.
(I'm assuming his issues are due to a lack of DSL ports at the exchange, borne from a lack of rack capacity in the exchange for ISPs to install new DSLAMs into)
or just a stupidly long installation process for ULL lines
If the previous ULL connection wasn't canceled and removed correctly it's 15+ business days till you will get anything connected. (for my last change ULL to ULL it was a 24 day process)
But the plans are either ripoffs, 100GB cap with 10c per MB over quota - which resulted in a $500 over charge and a cancellation right away - or the service is terrible when the university students get out of classes.
On our current plan during 3pm-1am we are lucky to get 50 _kilobytes_ per second. This is utterly unacceptable as that is when our clients in Europe need us to be responsive. Getting an email with attachments send is an uphill battle, forget video conferencing. We have to do ridiculous things like plan do major deployments on cloud servers between 2am and 10am because that is the only times we actually get broadband speeds. And we are stuck like this for another two weeks because of "problems with infrastructure".
The parent could certainly get a 4G connection with Telstra or Optus, and it'd probably even outperform DSL in terms of raw bandwidth. But the costs are monstrous and typically cap out at ~10GB/quota a month - not really tenable to operate a business on that.
(I'm assuming his issues are due to a lack of DSL ports at the exchange, borne from a lack of rack capacity in the exchange for ISPs to install new DSLAMs into)