Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World.

Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World, Shown Visually:

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Yes, Australia if 5th from the right hand end of the graph.

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One thing you will notice about the countries with very high speed internet - they are all small with high population. Much easier and cheaper to provide high speed broadband to a reasonable slab of the population in those circumstances. I wonder what level of access people in say rural France have though. At least in Australia, most people in major cities have access to 8MBps (although very few opt for faster than

512K), and most people in rural towns have access to 1.5MBps. Thanks to the government assistance, people on farms etc have access to 256-512kBps via satellite which is a damned site better than what they could get through phone lines. We still have some way to go, but personally I'd prefer to make 1.5MBps available to anyone who wants it, rather than having some people in some cities with 60M and regional areas / people with pair gain etc with 14-33K.
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Doug Jewell

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Fuck that, why should my internet experience be limited because of the tiny percentage of the populus who choose to live in the middle of nowhere? Besides, your assumption that those countries with high speed internet may have remoter areas with poor service is just speculation.

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I've never been to Perth or Hobart and only visit Adelaide roughly once a year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from memory none of the Capital cities have Uranium/Gold/Iron/Coal etc mines in the middle of them and I believe that most of the food growing areas are outside the cities. That being the case it's hard to see what the Capital cities do other than consume our products, produce copious pollution and provide services to support the productive regions of Australia that keep people like you in a comfortable lifestyle.

Somewhere in the world there is a village short of its idiot, please feel free to take up the vacancy.

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I wonder how they determine that our cost for 1mbps is $1 - $5 per month. Even if that is per each 1mbps, it seems far too low.

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The Old Bloke

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if that is per each 1mbps, it seems far

They appear to be taking the average broadband speed available in each country and dividing that into the lowest cost per month available.

Rather dubious on the lowest cost per month, but otherwise not too bad, although it ignores the fact that many of ours only bother to pay for 512 or less speed wise.

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Rod Speed

More than enough speed.

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terryc

Now now we are talk Bps not Roddles per message???????

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SG1

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Well, my Telstra cable gives me up to 30Mbps so no complaints there, but then they sting me $70/month for 12GB including uploads :-(

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David L. Jones

terryc wrote

Depends on what you want to do. ABC's Iview doesnt work that well at those speeds.

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Rod Speed

Visually:

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The graph is pretty useless as they do not cover the "download limits" or the forced speed reduction (PC name = shaping) after a small limit is reached. Many countries do NOT have a download limit. This is certainly the case in Russia, the Ukraine and US.

To compare without this important data, is not giving the full picture.

In the days of common use of things like VOIP, Online TV services such as ABC I-View, You Tube and other such legitimate data intensive services, (we could mention torrents and other file sharing if you want) this cannot be overlooked.

It's like saying that you can have a new top of the range Mercedes but are limited to 100km a month at normal speed, after which you can only do 25, or a used Commodore that you can drive as much and as far as you like and at the speed limit. Unless you are the "little old lady who only drives to church on sundays", then the commodore is the better offer.

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kreed

True, but I can only afford 2 hrs max of that per day anyway.

The big problem with iview is that by the time you could watch news, it was ancient or weeks old.

Cheaper and faster just to buy a USB san/dongle for the desktop box

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terryc

hear hear !

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kreed

Erk, Exetel even. No uploads count. $40 for 12Gb downloads in peak, 56Gb downloads in off peak and no uploads.

You can run your soho business and get a static IP if you wanted. DNS is $50p.a. or go elsewhere.

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terryc

Nope, been there, done that, fought for several years with endless ADSL2+ problems. Basically it doesn't work at my place, too far from the exchange (>5km), and I'm using some bizzare pair which is routed differently to everyone else in the street. So I'm stuck with Telstra cable.

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David L. Jones

terryc wrote

speeds.

Some ISPs dont count Iview in the quota.

ancient or weeks old.

It is however useful for stuff you miss on the FTA.

But that doesnt allow you to watch stuff you missed.

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Rod Speed

Yeahbut if we didnt buy your stuff you would be winging about that too :-)

Rheilly P

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Rheilly Phoull

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Butt

Oz is among the Elite Highest usage of Computers per household. Now if Howie was still driving the boat, we'd be pretty much the same place we are now. But After Ruddy installs a super fast highway that only the government will be able to afford, we're still going to be in the same boat.

No matter what happens, we will always be paying too much for too little, that much is a certainty.

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son of a bitch

Perhaps - but in a day or two you'd be so hungry you wouldn't even notice if the farmers were whinging.

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Doug Jewell

Farmers whinge by default.

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Clocky

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