Clueless wireless in Australia
One of the things that I would have considered much easier before travelling here, is getting online in Australia. If you travel through Europe or the U.S., you are used to get a pay-for wireless network everywhere and free wireless in many places. Well, Australia is different. There is Internet, but mostly through kiosk systems that allow you only to surf the web and sometimes (very rarely) to upload some images from a SD or Flash disk.
If wireless is available, it is metered (five dollars per hour is quite cheap), not very fast (50 kBytes/sec) and outside of the tourist spots and big cities, finding a wireless access point is a lesson in futility.
If I drive down the street in my home town (4000 inhabitants), I never have less than five wireless networks (most of them private and closed, but still visible) at any time. Here in Australia you can stand in the middle of Main Street in a tourist spot like the Barossa Valley and … nothing. Not even a closed network.
Australia lags five years behind the U.S. and Europe here. Hey Aussies, time to catch up. 
australia internet wireless