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"we now lag the rest of the world when it comes to broadband Net access." You don't lag the nightmare that is Canada.
by ojbyrne 18y ago
"we now lag the rest of the world when it comes to broadband Net access." You don't lag the nightmare that is Canada.
- dmix 18y agoI have a standard 7mbs/1mbs connection from Rogers in Canada. I paid an extra $14, for a total of about $80 last month, because I downloaded an extra 7GB over my 60GB monthly cap. Mmm nothing like markets with zero competition.
- Hexstream 18y agoI'm guessing you're excluding Quebec? I can consistently download at 800k/sec (if the server will push the bits this fast) with Videotron. Is that really considered impossibly slow nowadays?! I don't even know what I'd do with more bandwidth, though now that I have a server the 100k/sec upload limit is a bit more of an irritation.
- smokinn 18y agoThe caps on all residential videotron offerings are all ridiculously low though.
- Retric 18y agoIf you look around the world ~100MB/s residential connections are fairly common and a few places are rolling out 1Gbit/second. However, in the US you see everything from ~80MB/s down to 256k/s depending on your location. The fastest connection my mother can get is 256k/s which plenty fast for web surfing but don't try and watch HD video streams on that thing. And that's the problem 30 vs 100 MB/s is not that big deal but when much of the US can't get 1/10th that we have a problem. Edit: Mine is 20MBbit down, 2MBit up.