According to major Australian ISP Telstra: 256/64kbps is not only broadband, it's Fast broadband!

So what does that make BLAZING fast? 1Mbps?
OK, got the thing plugged in and all, and here's what I've got.
They say 7.2M, but as always, that's just the PEAK of what you may or may not get. In reality, I got an average of 1.21MB/s down and 0.76 MB/s up. Ping time to a server in HK: 163ms. (That's the best, I did it a second time and I got 196ms.)
I hate this.

7.2Mbps is the theoretical maximum value. In practice you will never seen anything even remotely close. In addition, a HSDPA network's speed is heavily dependent on the number of concurrent users.
I have a HSDPA-modem to plug into my laptop when I'm dragging it around. I've gotten about 3Mbps download speeds out of it at the best of times, read; downloading in the middle of the night. Normal speeds are about 1.2 - 1.5 Mbps download.
That being said, here in Norway it is a very cheap and cost-effective solution if you don't need high-speed cable connections. I pay for premium service including no volume restraints, and it's about $40 a month.

Wait... so They're advertising speeds in megabits per second (they always do, looks better). Which unit are you measurements in, megabits or megabytes? (B=byte, b=bit, usually). I guess bits, but the capital B threw me off.
I've seen ISP's here advertising 14.4 Mbps... of course, now they've all changed to 2, 6, and 10 Mbps.

Megabytes is the measurement here. I'm usually either Mbps or MB/s, depending on my mood.

Wait, nevermind... I just looked at the image, and that's using megabits. I was thinking you got a better-than-promised deal, as 1.2 Mbyte/s is quite a bit better than 7.2 Mbit/s.

Got a blog post up. Yes, some whoring here.