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When I lived in Canada, two companies had ownership of the optic cables: Bell and Rogers. Technically the cables that Bell "owns" are government owned. All the other ISPs rent cable space from Bell and as such have to follow the rules that Bell has set in place such as throttling of P2P connections from 4pm-1am. In short, there is no incentive for the two companies to improve their internet infrastructure because there is no competition. That's why Bell/Rogers/Other ISPs get away with charging $50-$60 for a shitty ~10/1 Mbps connection. Oh, and there is also have a bandwidth limit of 250GB in place.
For the moment, I'm in Bulgaria, and here its a different story. Years ago, everyone and their grandmother laid optic cables everywhere and there are plenty of companies competing with one another. The price for my current connection (which is ~30/30 Mbps) is 20л (~$15) and has no bandwidth limit. This is also a relatively slow connection for a big city where there are companies offering 100Mbps residential connections.
I think upload speeds are even more important than download speeds when looking at connections. How can you ever hope to utilize your full download speed if there aren't other people uploading at the same speed?
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On May 07 2012 22:09 craz3d wrote:
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I think upload speeds are even more important than download speeds when looking at connections. How can you ever hope to utilize your full download speed if there aren't other people uploading at the same speed?
That only applies to P2P. Usenet has been my choice for downloads for the past couple of years. Always max out my 120Mbit connection. No one knows how long it will last though, seems like being a (binary) usenet provider is in a bit of a gray area.
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It seems canada isn't too bad either, at least compared to the US. Most people here have 15mb/s, and gamers almost always have 30. When I see speedtests from US citizens it's always pretty bad... like, 5mbs range
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Enjoy your bullshit since your internet speed is capped by your ISP, not cables. Lmao
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Keep in mind I pay 36$ + tax/month for phone + internet (well, for the next 2 months at least... after that my special will be over T_T). Definitely worth it.
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Romania is pretty damn slow for what i expected, but i guess you can't properly messure internet "speed" as a whole, some of the other websites still show us top 3 or at least 5, so i guess its not that bad.
Also, i was pretty sure that Ukraine would be there.
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God damn it I am planning to move out to UK, but the internet is so shit everywhere, I don't know how I will handle the change. I mean I pay less than 8 pounds for 100mbps dl 50mbps upl constant, when I'll move out I'll probably get some shitty 10mbps internet and will have to pay a fortune for it :|
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On May 08 2012 01:23 tosadalis wrote:
God damn it I am planning to move out to UK, but the internet is so shit everywhere, I don't know how I will handle the change. I mean I pay less than 8 pounds for 100mbps dl 50mbps upl constant, when I'll move out I'll probably get some shitty 10mbps internet and will have to pay a fortune for it :|
Yep. UK internet is bullshit.
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On May 07 2012 21:45 Serejai wrote:List doesn't look very accurate at all to me, especially since Sweden is not on it and USA is. http://www.netindex.com/
Can Swedish users please do SpeedTest and post it on this thread? I heard Internet in Sweden is quite fast but not as fast as Korea and some of the Baltic nations.
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Currently living in China. This is what I get for $30/month.
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/1938413336.png)
This also comes with a wireless router so you will have wifi on the go with out have to buy a wireless router yourself.
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On May 08 2012 15:03 Caphe wrote:Currently living in China. This is what I get for $30/month. This also comes with a wireless router so you will have wifi on the go with out have to buy a wireless router yourself.
I heard Shanghai has the fastest Internet in China, excluding Hong Kong.
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On May 07 2012 22:43 Twistacles wrote:
It seems canada isn't too bad either, at least compared to the US. Most people here have 15mb/s, and gamers almost always have 30. When I see speedtests from US citizens it's always pretty bad... like, 5mbs range
You must be living out west. Outside of hubs like Toronto, everyone's still running off "5mbs" (though the lines are often pretty bad and distances to COs are large, so speeds are lower). ADSL2+ is still just rolling out. Cable is fast, but their bandwidth limits are even more outrageous.
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Pretty good considering I am paying for a 10/10 connection. And that this is done from a laptop on wireless :D
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Dat upload ^^
My real rate is a symmetric 4Mb/s, it must be a glitch there. BitTorrent is so happy...
1500 Yuans a year (20$/month)
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Pricing and ease of use still has a lot to do with those kind of graphs. I'm lucky that they built fiber connection to my appartment about 2 years ago, so I get 100M/10M for 36€/month, and they're building more fiber all the time. But a lot of places still only have access to ADSL and they can be pretty damn expensive, so most settle for the 1M or whatever is lowest. And I know there are a ton of people who know absolutely nothing about computers, and settle for 0.5M 3G sticks, because that's pretty easy to use.
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i don't understand why my internet speed in korea is fast downloading stuff but it can't even stream youtube past 360.
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On April 29 2012 16:58 Azarkon wrote:
The government of SK invested in high speed internet infrastructure. The US government - and the rest of the world's governments - did not.
The cost factor is a big deal. I live in a major US city. Providers offer 55 Mbps services for about $80/month here.
Nobody uses it.
It's not the technology, it's the way the industry works. The US government has no plans to compete in high-speed broadband service, hence the costs are on the private companies and are prohibitive for average users. The SK government subsidized SK internet providers to develop the infrastructure and provide cheap services. It's a strategic goal of theirs, whereas it is not for us.
Were high-speed broadband to become a strategic priority, the US and Europe doesn't lack the technology.
$80/month for 55Mbps! WAT?
To put it into perspective i pay about 7~8$ a month for 100/100Mbps in Sweden and if I were to get 1000 Mbps that would cost around 44$
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I knew there was a reason I came to America.
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Somehow it dosn't measure well my upload speed only sometimes. This is with router. Without router its around 98/20
It costs 5 Euros/month but this is a reasonable price according to our lower income compared to Western countries
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