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I think there are a few huge gaps. Russia, they got as many people as Japan. And another even larger hole is Africa, there's well over one billion people in Afr

I think there are a few huge gaps. Russia, they got as many people as Japan. And another even larger hole is Africa, there's well over one billion people in Africa. Compared to ridiculous 22 million in Australia, that's a lot more. And in India, there's even more people than there is in Africa. Roughly US, Europe and Australia combined got same population as India or Africa which is in same ball park with China.

eastdakota 12y ago
Agree there are other regions left out (Africa, India, Russia and China are the biggies). We don't operate in a scaled up way in any of those yet. That's changing and, as we have data for other regions, we'll look into revisiting this topic.
guard-of-terra 12y ago
In Russia it should be more like Europe with peering (MSK-IX) and not terribly expensive connectivity. However this might change because of political instability (or "stability" if you call it that). UPD: If they consider Europe to have population of 750 they surely include Russia and other ex-USSR in the mix.
mlvljr 12y ago
In Russia, 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit ADSL costs me about $8 per month; they keep suggesting I make a free switch to a 15 (or 30 or 60, have not checked the actual speeds yet) Mbit cable connection, but I am unsure if I do want to pay extra $3 :) Given the (free) D-Link 2300 running a 2500 firmware is really showing its age sometimes now (after 6 or 7 years of non-stop work), it may be indeed time to switch (not that I need anything more than 5 Mbit downlink, I think though). This is a state provider, there are many private ones around, and their prices (usually for a 50-100 Mbit downlink via usual Ethernet cable) are $10-20 per month (comparable, that is), if I remember correctly. The ADSL quality has always been good, btw (esp. given I wired the modem to telephone cables probably 30-40 years old :) ) -- decent pings, stable speed, was down only once or twice (in all the years).
- mlvljr 12y ago
  UPD: not going for this, checked reviews at http://prov.telekomza.ru/providers/sankt-peterburg/rostelekom/ http://prov.telekomza.ru/providers/sankt-peterburg/rosteleko... (there're some quite funny ones, not sure if auto-translators can convey the humor though)
- driverdan 12y ago
  I'm curious why you're satisfied with 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit. Do you never use streaming video / music? Don't you get frustrated waiting for large downloads?
  - mlvljr 12y ago
    2 Mbits means 900 Mbytes per hour -- enough for youtube streams in 480p (and more often than not, in 720p, without pauses to buffer), and ok if software distributions are downloaded (XUbuntu 14.04 was 900 Mb, iirc); music takes a fraction of the downstream capability... Shortly, people used to 30 MBit downlinks might have forgotten how little most of our (modern-day) media requires -- often a megabit, or two per second :)
    - ksec 12y ago
      I am on a 4Mbps ADSL line, I would have liked a little more like 10Mbps. But Stability and Ping time matters A LOT more for an internet connection. The only real downside is uploading speed. Which meant i dont to enjoy Google Drive or DropBox as much. Hopefully when G.Fast arrive next year, those who are still relying on copper will get a very decent upgrade.

eastdakota 12y ago

Agree there are other regions left out (Africa, India, Russia and China are the biggies). We don't operate in a scaled up way in any of those yet. That's changing and, as we have data for other regions, we'll look into revisiting this topic.

guard-of-terra 12y ago

In Russia it should be more like Europe with peering (MSK-IX) and not terribly expensive connectivity. However this might change because of political instability (or "stability" if you call it that). UPD: If they consider Europe to have population of 750 they surely include Russia and other ex-USSR in the mix.

mlvljr 12y ago

In Russia, 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit ADSL costs me about $8 per month; they keep suggesting I make a free switch to a 15 (or 30 or 60, have not checked the actual speeds yet) Mbit cable connection, but I am unsure if I do want to pay extra $3 :) Given the (free) D-Link 2300 running a 2500 firmware is really showing its age sometimes now (after 6 or 7 years of non-stop work), it may be indeed time to switch (not that I need anything more than 5 Mbit downlink, I think though). This is a state provider, there are many private ones around, and their prices (usually for a 50-100 Mbit downlink via usual Ethernet cable) are $10-20 per month (comparable, that is), if I remember correctly. The ADSL quality has always been good, btw (esp. given I wired the modem to telephone cables probably 30-40 years old :) ) -- decent pings, stable speed, was down only once or twice (in all the years).

mlvljr 12y ago
UPD: not going for this, checked reviews at http://prov.telekomza.ru/providers/sankt-peterburg/rostelekom/ http://prov.telekomza.ru/providers/sankt-peterburg/rosteleko... (there're some quite funny ones, not sure if auto-translators can convey the humor though)
driverdan 12y ago
I'm curious why you're satisfied with 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit. Do you never use streaming video / music? Don't you get frustrated waiting for large downloads?
- mlvljr 12y ago
  2 Mbits means 900 Mbytes per hour -- enough for youtube streams in 480p (and more often than not, in 720p, without pauses to buffer), and ok if software distributions are downloaded (XUbuntu 14.04 was 900 Mb, iirc); music takes a fraction of the downstream capability... Shortly, people used to 30 MBit downlinks might have forgotten how little most of our (modern-day) media requires -- often a megabit, or two per second :)
  - ksec 12y ago
    I am on a 4Mbps ADSL line, I would have liked a little more like 10Mbps. But Stability and Ping time matters A LOT more for an internet connection. The only real downside is uploading speed. Which meant i dont to enjoy Google Drive or DropBox as much. Hopefully when G.Fast arrive next year, those who are still relying on copper will get a very decent upgrade.