why is it I try to download a file or browse the inernet in general on xtra broadband and its just so slow??? but remoting into my pc at work is super fast?  I transfered a file over RDP from my pc at work which is on an orcon fullspeed adsl2+ connection, and it was done in less than a min.  Next i tried to download firefox from firefox.com and got a miserable 4kb/s with the download timing out at 32%, so frustrating!  I dont know why telecom do this.

But to solve the issue I have used ssh to remote to the linux webserver at work, used that to install squid proxy, configured it and im re-routing everything from our xtra broadband connection thru the squid proxy server now running on our webserver at work, this has improved the web browsing and download speed on xtra a lot!!!