[elithrar]

> 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)

[tacticus]

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)