That new national network ("the NBN") is so hit-or-miss that it's not funny. My current connection in Brisbane is 1GbE download (incredibly fast for Australia)

That new national network ("the NBN") is so hit-or-miss that it's not funny. My current connection in Brisbane is 1GbE download (incredibly fast for Australia), but only 50mbps upload. That 50mbps upload is the fastest commonly available speed in the whole country. Most ISP's don't offer anything faster than 20mbps. :( Reliability isn't great either. Had an 8 hour (!) outage overnight about a month ago, then a ~2 hour outage last week. Both caused by NBN Co, rather than my ISP. The concept of hosting anything actually useful or important from home infrastructure is just laughable when there are commonly multi-hour outages. It's just fucking stupid. :(