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> Telstra's cable network (aka. BigPond Ultimate at the time) could do 100Mbps fifteen years ago!

Mhmm, it was great. But at what cost, you had on most plans a 1GB monthly cap.

And then when I went to an ISDN connection they wanted 9c per megabyte. To be fair, they would let you do things like join their squid proxy caching hierarchy, but bleh.



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