>I've worked for small tech companies in Australia my entire (not so long) career, and access to high internet speeds has never ever really been a problem. When

>I've worked for small tech companies in Australia my entire (not so long) career, and access to high internet speeds has never ever really been a problem. When you're a programmer, what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really? >Yes, regional areas should be upgraded from dialup/slow sattelite to at least 10mbps. What kind of impact will that have wrt the OP? If you could also include my place, 5km away from Brisbane's CBD, to be upgraded past 5Mbit that'd be pretty sweet too. And to achieve that I have to deal with slightly unreliable internet - rock solid is probably closer to 4-4.5Mbit. (You greatly overestimate the ubiquity of high-speed internet even in capital cities. It's not just the outback that has terrible internet.)