Last time I was in London, company headquaters had worse connection than my old home one in Poland. Generally whenever I went for business purposes, I was always surprised how slow business connections were...
Of course :) I lived in Sydney for a year, but even there I had a 24Mbit ADSL2+ line, which is still under a minute to download this.
I don't think people believed I wasn't trolling. Sorry.
200MB takes around 1hour to download where I'm living.
You were comparing London (huge metropolis) with Sydney (another huge metropolis).
Those data points aren't really as different as you seem to think :)
Sydney certainly didn't seem like a 'metropolis' when I was there :) But seriously, Australia in general has poor internet bandwidth, by dint of its limited transoceanic cables, so I thought it was a fair comparison!