> in Romania I pay 10$/month for a 1gb, unlimited traffic, internet connection. I think we have this for about 3-5 years. 1GB is fairly new in Romania, but alr

> in Romania I pay 10$/month for a 1gb, unlimited traffic, internet connection. I think we have this for about 3-5 years. 1GB is fairly new in Romania, but already by 2007 fiber had been rolled out in the major cities (wise use of EU funds?) and at least 300Mbps or 500Mbps connections for 10€/month have long been routine. (Incidentally, even though gigabit is becoming common, not many people realize they have to upgrade their routers – wifi in cafes is almost never gigabit, even if the ISP’s link supports it, just because the cafe owners will simply grab a cheap router from the shop and that is unlikely to be gigabit.) Even before wide availability of fiber, cable and DSL connections offered pretty high speeds for that medium. In Cluj your ISP would even give you the username and password for a private server where you could share films and music with other people in the same city, so of course download speeds would be extremely fast. Good times.