I received word from my friend Uwe Thiem that Namibian Telecom has just rolled out it’s first ADSL services, I place his thoughts on it verbatim:
ADSL arrived in Namibia – well, at least in Windhoek and
Swakopmund So I got my shiny new ADSL modem/router yesterday. The boys from
Telecom didn’t know much about it. So I sent them home after they “installed”
the hardware. Took me half an hour to make it work = most of it reading the
excellent manual that comes with it. Now for the really good news: It is
blazingly fast. I ordered the smallest package available (256Kb/s bandwidth,
1GB data per month. Downloaded rather large files from overseas between
40KB/s and 110KB/s. I think Telecom has forgotten to put the bandwidth cap
in. 
I might even use IRC or such in future. I might even start blogging
now that I am online permanently.
