I'm down in South Aus and we pay $120 a month for 500GB and I get 2.2mb down max and 800kb up max. Our bandwidth is shitall and we have a ping of about 50. The cable runs from my house to the exchange, from there it travels to the next town (by car, it's a mile, well, just a tad more) to the next exchange. That exchange then connects wirelessly to Adelaide. When it rains, blows with wind or any other kind of natural event, the net drops out and I spend 5 minutes reconnecting. The wireless exchange to Adelaide drops users briefly in order to maintain bandwidth/strong connection for others and essentials. It's a bloody joke, I am quite willing to get out there in the trench digger or with a bloody shovel and lay that line from here to Adelaide.