I have a friend who lives in the northern suburbs of Sydney. He applied to Telstra/littlepuddle for ADSL and was told that the exchange and telephone lines could not handle it. Same answer from Optus and Primus.<br />He applied on-line to Swiftel (now People Telecom) and the connection was set up in one and a half weeks, using the same infrastructure that the other "providers" said could not be used.<br />Whose is pulling whose pud, eh??