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Jeßus[_56_] · **Dinner 6/17/16**

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 07:34:30 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 10:09:27 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
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>
>>For sure. I'm sorta back to the dial up days again even though I have
>>satellite broadband. The problem is the service is heavily
>>oversubscribed, it was fine for the first six months. Anyway, it's now
>>slow during peak hours, and with web sites getting more and more
>>bloated, things are now as slow as the dial up days were for me.
>>
>>The satellite I'm on is government subsidised (part of the 'National
>>broadband Network') and was always intended to be temporary. I'm
>>overdue to be moved onto the new NBN satellite, when it'll actually
>>happen I don't know. IIRC that is something like 25Mbps whereas the
>>one I'm on currently is 6Mbps, but is actually closer to 64Kbps. Can't
>>view videos and certain sites at all... I can't even upload a small
>>pic during peak hours. And yet during offpeak hours, I download about
>>300GB per month.
>
>Away from the cities, its the same here. Sparse population and long
>distances and ISPs just don't want to do it as it is not profitable.
>Catch 22

Just have to wait to be moved to the new satellite now... waiting...