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internet speeds in Hungary are not so high. Look at east Romania what offers, you get 1GBps for 7 euro/mo.
by pentium10 12y ago
internet speeds in Hungary are not so high. Look at east Romania what offers, you get 1GBps for 7 euro/mo.
- sz4kerto 12y agoRomania is really an outlier -- but compared to the USA or the UK, Hungary still fares very well (a cheap 100 Mbps internet basically 'should be enough for anyone' -- not completely true, but that can serve multiple 4K video streams at the same time, so for most households it's perfect).
- Ecio78 12y agoI am paying 50euro/month for 30Mbit/10Mbit Fiber in Luxembourg :/ In Italy I was paying about 25-30Euro/month for 20Mbit/1Mbit ADSL (and actually 20 was never 20 but more around 12-15..
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- wil421 12y agoDo people actually have multiple 4k montiors and multiple streaming services to serve content to those devices? I pay about $40 for 50Mb/15Mb and there is barely anything I can do to max this out.
- scrollaway 12y agoPlease remember that not everyone lives in a household of one. A household hosting say, six independent people can easily cap a 100Mbps connection.
- wil421 12y agoI live with 3 people and unless someone is downloading a torrent there is no way netflix/hulu/youtube playing at once is going to cap 50Mb or 100Mb.
- scrollaway 12y agoHow about a group of 4 friends who buy a game on steam together and want to download it and try it out together? That can easily be 30 gigabytes that has to be downloaded by 4 people, capping the connection over a sustained amount of time.
- qq66 12y agoSure, but does any public policy need to be directed towards this use case, or the six simultaneous Netflix streams? I would think that increasing Internet adoption by 1% would have more tangible gains than increasing speed by tenfold, once you are at figures like 5 or 10 Mbps.
- ericd 12y agoYes, because there are many use cases which will crop up once internet speeds aren't so constrained in so many places. If you could download very large files very quickly in almost every location, I'm fairly sure that computing would change rather dramatically.
- scrollaway 12y agoThink of it this way. What do you think would have more effect on the world: Increasing processing power 100-fold, or increasing desktop usage by 1% of the entire world population? How about 10-fold and 5%? I can guarantee you it's the former.
- jimmaswell 12y agodownload it once and copy over the files locally
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- mrottenkolber 12y agoI was living in a household of ten heavy internet users on a 18Mbit/s line. The only times we had trouble was due to our service provider (outages, severe packet loss). This included mostly games and streaming.
- Chronic29 12y agoTo counter your single anecdotal data point, I'll give my own: in a house of 3, we routinely reach 80 Mbps with video down and upload streaming, torrents, and game downloads/game play.
- zoner 12y agoYou don't probably do torrent or just ignoring the fact that the vast majority of internet traffic globally is peer to peer traffic between dynamic IP addresses, so clearly torrent. It's more true in case of Hungary where the minimum wage is around 250 EUR and people have a relatively luxury broadband speed, need (and addict) for car and historically good in pirating content since the world invented the VCR.
- cbg0 12y ago12.45 EUR actually with VAT, assuming you just buy the Internet connection, and not as part of a package.
- NicoJuicy 12y ago"Fun" fact: the reason why internet is cheap / fast is because of the webcam industry in Romania.
- MrJagil 12y agosource?
- paganel 12y agoI'm not so sure about that. Source: I'm Romanian. The best and most accurate explanation that I could find after a quick search was this one: http://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_internet_speed_in_eu_by_country/cjiyt5n?context=3 http://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_intern... """ tl;dr Romanians love movies, we needed a way to download them and fiber was the answer. Much cheaper than copper, no risk of the cables getting stolen. """
- shock 12y agoSpotted: Python programmer ^^^
- hippiehippo 12y agoTL;DR: BitTorrent being the reason doesn't sound so interesting for a Vice article. As a person who helped build a "district ISP network" back in the early 2000s, I can tell you that that reason is just some Vice.com style linkbait. Romania has great Internet speeds because the authorities tolerated us installing cables all over the darn place. Back then it wasn't uncommon to have almost half a dozen ISPs in a one square mile neighbourhood, all offering 50-100 mbps in the city and 1-2 mbps actual Internet speeds, without any FUP. We were almost the same age and people didn't care about the low international speeds because we could all share movies and music at 50+ mbps (and 0.5 mbps was more than enough for browsing). This was happening way before the video chat industry took off. Also, for that kind of stuff you need good sustained upload, but the ISPs are still limiting the upload speed to around 30 mbps even for gigabit connections. This doesn't affect BitTorrent (which can be left open over night).
- butterbeer 12y agoAre there data caps? Also, how is the upload speed?
- sbalea 12y agoNo data caps, 100mbps in network, 30mbps upload speed to the internet at large.