Turnbull's prehistoric broadband - Melbourne

A house bought in Ocean Grove, near the centre of Melbourne, one would expect to at least have the capacity for ADSL through the copper telephone lines. 

Here is a google map showing Ocean Grove bottom right (near Geelong out of the picture) and Melbourne city top right.

Here's the person's message to Malcolm. Note his reply. Evidently even in such a built up area as this you're supposed to check if the place has decent internet before you buy it? 

Meanwhile, this is what they're doing in the US cities now, installing 1gigabit per second internet.  For anyone not quite sure how fast that actually is, 1gigabit = 1,000megabits.

An AT&T initiative that is expected to deliver ultra-fast fiber network, with broadband speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second, to 100 candidate cities and municipalities nationwide. The initial GigaPower high-speed Internet service, launched in Austin, Texas, was priced at $70 per month and offered speeds of up to 300Mbps. In 2013, AT&T said it will up speeds to one gigabit per second "when available" in 2014, at no extra cost. more  

Just a note, the fibre to the home NBN that Labor was doing and the Liberals abandoned, would have provided the infrastructure for 1gbps.