Up until a week ago, a pigeon could have beaten my own ISP as well.
Glad they finally fixed the external wiring issue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom... (There are some rules governing the contest.) They included "no cats allowed" and "birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within".