I'm sorry, but I will have to interrupt you guys..

First, I will state the connection I had in Australia. I had ADSL 2+ as well... I had a SNR of 6dB +/- that allows me to connect at 18-22 mbits to the servers which was considered very good. With that, I got about 300-500kb/sec download speed often via torrents, with the few rare moments where I got 800kb/sec - 1mb/sec.. the only time I saw speeds of 1mb/sec or more was when I was downloading from an Australian file server..

Not to mention ADSL 2+ you're limited to 1mbit upload.. so you can't seed for nuts, leaving those private tracker sites which requires you to have a good upload ratio out of the question..

Secondly, vanchrian, what ISP were you using in Australia? Most ISP shapes your connection to 128kbits or 256kbits after you pass your quota.. meaning 10-20kbytes/sec download speed..

Thirdly, I have no comment about your friend's fiber connection, but my UniFi VIP10 hits 1.2mbytes often when downloading via torrents.. often and stable.. after being impressed with that speed, I upped my package to VIP20 and now am able to do 2.4mbytes..

One note though, this applies to both UniFi and Streamyx.

Connection will be slow towards the end of the month. This always seems to be the case...

I am just assuming we, as a country, or TM, as a company, has their own bandwidth quota for the month. Once the quota is nearly reaching or have reached, nationwide it'll slow down..

I always notice the first few weeks of the month, the net is much smoother and quicker than the last few weeks of the month.

vanchrian
Yeah, TPG is really cheap. They have ADSL 2+ Unlimited at AUD 59.99.. but I heard their speed is not reliable as well as ping is quite high. I was with Adam Internet while I was in Adelaide.