nitpicker330
It’s just a figure of speech of Australian internet speeds compared to the rest of the world. I have Optus in Australia which gives me a similar speed as Telstra of 8 mbps. Compared to my place in Hong Kong which is 300 mbps it may as well be by pigeon.
Regarding the company web sites mentioned they appear to be working “normally”. If it is taking minutes to load a page there is something wrong and it is probably to do with their setting, operating system or ISP. If the operating system/browser is old and/or not up to date this can cause major problems on some web sites.