Drum roll please..... This is my first post ever (yes I know about time) so I thought I would write a little bit about internet bandwidth badness in Australia.

I just recently went over quota on my home connection which has caused my internet connection to be shaped back into yester year. Boy has it grinded my productivitiy to a halt. I can barely surf one page at a time, let alone the several tens of pages I'd usually have open. To make matters worse I've just done a clean install of my OS, so downloading all the patches and utilities I need has been a real pain.

The internet, thanks to web 2.0, other nifties and the general expectation of a decent connection, *officially* no longer supports <= 56k bandwidths.

I suppose you don't know what you've got until its gone. Kind of like when the electricity goes out and there is nothing to do :S