As a guy living in one of the small countries which does reasonably well on internet speed rankings, let me tell you --- high domestic speed is useless if your

As a guy living in one of the small countries which does reasonably well on internet speed rankings, let me tell you --- high domestic speed is useless if your country only has a tiny pipe to the places that have all the content you'd actually want to watch. The in-country content I browse is primarily textual --- the local newspaper, classified/auctions sites, etc. You only need high bandwidth for those if you want to watch all the stupid flash video ads they attach to everything. The video content producers are all in the US, S. Korea, or China. In the evening when everyone's trying to get on the same overseas sites, it doesn't matter if the "last mile" into your apartment is all built from fiber-optics. So instead of sitting around waiting for Youtube to load, plenty of people choose an alternative method to get 150 megabits/second bandwidth --- walk fifteen minutes to the bazaar, buy ten pirated DVDs, and walk back home. Horrible latency, massive packet sizes.