Three years ago I was working for a small company in a ye olde converted apartment building in the heart of Melbourne. We were on ADSL, but had to upgrade becau

Three years ago I was working for a small company in a ye olde converted apartment building in the heart of Melbourne. We were on ADSL, but had to upgrade because graphic designers really don't like the A part of ADSL. So we went to symmetric DSL - going from 1.5/16Mb up/down (from memory) to 10/10. This cost $500/mo. But over in San Fran, our satellite office was getting 100/100 for $50/mo. They were literally getting ten times the bandwidth for a tenth the cost. Admittedly their building was in range of some nifty ISP and it wasn't a deal you could get anywhere, but the difference was startling. (AU vs US dollars were about the same at that point)