Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World.

[Don McKenzie]

Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World, Shown Visually:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/10/i...-around-the-world-shown-visually/#more-362769

Be sure to click the above image to see it in its full glory.

Yes, Australia if 5th from the right hand end of the graph.

Cheers Don...



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[Clocky]

One thing you will notice about the countries with very high speed
internet - they are all small with high population. Much easier and
cheaper to provide high speed broadband to a reasonable slab of the
population in those circumstances. I wonder what level of access people in
say rural France have though. At least in Australia, most people in major
cities have access to 8MBps (although very few opt for faster than 512K),
and most people in rural towns have access to 1.5MBps. Thanks to the
government assistance, people on farms etc have access to 256-512kBps via
satellite which is a damned site better than what they could get through
phone lines. We still have some way to go, but personally I'd prefer to
make 1.5MBps available to anyone who wants it, rather than having some
people in some cities with 60M and regional areas / people with pair gain
etc with 14-33K.

**** that, why should my internet experience be limited because of the tiny
percentage of the populus who choose to live in the middle of nowhere?
Besides, your assumption that those countries with high speed internet may
have remoter areas with poor service is just speculation.

 

[PhilD]

**** that, why should my internet experience be limited because of the
tiny percentage of the populus who choose to live in the middle of
nowhere?

I've never been to Perth or Hobart and only visit Adelaide roughly once a
year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from memory none of the Capital cities
have Uranium/Gold/Iron/Coal etc mines in the middle of them and I believe
that most of the food growing areas are outside the cities. That being the
case it's hard to see what the Capital cities do other than consume our
products, produce copious pollution and provide services to support the
productive regions of Australia that keep people like you in a comfortable
lifestyle.

Somewhere in the world there is a village short of its idiot, please feel
free to take up the vacancy.

PhilD

 

[The Old Bloke]

Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World, Shown Visually:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/10/i...-around-the-world-shown-visually/#more-362769

Be sure to click the above image to see it in its full glory.

Yes, Australia if 5th from the right hand end of the graph.

Cheers Don...

I wonder how they determine that our cost for 1mbps is $1 - $5 per month.
Even if that is per each 1mbps, it seems far too low.

Regards

 

[Rod Speed]

The Old Bloke wrote

I wonder how they determine that our cost for 1mbps is $1 - $5 per month. Even if that is per each 1mbps, it seems far
too low.

They appear to be taking the average broadband speed available in
each country and dividing that into the lowest cost per month available.

Rather dubious on the lowest cost per month, but otherwise not too bad, although
it ignores the fact that many of ours only bother to pay for 512 or less speed wise.

 

[terryc]

Rather dubious on the lowest cost per month, but otherwise not too bad,
although it ignores the fact that many of ours only bother to pay for
512 or less speed wise.

More than enough speed.

 

[SG1]

More than enough speed.

Now now we are talk Bps not Roddles per message???????

 

[David L. Jones]

Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World, Shown Visually:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/10/i...-around-the-world-shown-visually/#more-362769

Be sure to click the above image to see it in its full glory.

Yes, Australia if 5th from the right hand end of the graph.

Cheers Don...

Well, my Telstra cable gives me up to 30Mbps so no complaints there, but
then they sting me $70/month for 12GB including uploads :-(

Dave.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Rod Speed wrote

More than enough speed.

Depends on what you want to do. ABC's Iview doesnt work that well at those speeds.

 

[terryc]

terryc wrote



Depends on what you want to do. ABC's Iview doesnt work that well at
those speeds.

True, but I can only afford 2 hrs max of that per day anyway.

The big problem with iview is that by the time you could watch news, it
was ancient or weeks old.

Cheaper and faster just to buy a USB san/dongle for the desktop box

 

[terryc]

Well, my Telstra cable gives me up to 30Mbps so no complaints there, but
then they sting me $70/month for 12GB including uploads :-(

Erk, Exetel even. No uploads count. $40 for 12Gb downloads in peak, 56Gb
downloads in off peak and no uploads.

You can run your soho business and get a static IP if you wanted. DNS is
$50p.a. or go elsewhere.

Check http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au

 

[David L. Jones]

Erk, Exetel even. No uploads count. $40 for 12Gb downloads in peak,
56Gb downloads in off peak and no uploads.

You can run your soho business and get a static IP if you wanted. DNS
is $50p.a. or go elsewhere.

Check http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au

Nope, been there, done that, fought for several years with endless ADSL2+
problems. Basically it doesn't work at my place, too far from the exchange
(>5km), and I'm using some bizzare pair which is routed differently to
everyone else in the street.
So I'm stuck with Telstra cable.

Dave.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Rod Speed wrote

True, but I can only afford 2 hrs max of that per day anyway.

Some ISPs dont count Iview in the quota.

The big problem with iview is that by the time you could watch news, it was ancient or weeks old.

It is however useful for stuff you miss on the FTA.

Cheaper and faster just to buy a USB san/dongle for the desktop box

But that doesnt allow you to watch stuff you missed.

 

[son of a bitch]

Internet Speeds And Costs Around The World, Shown Visually:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/10/i...-around-the-world-shown-visually/#more-362769


Be sure to click the above image to see it in its full glory.

Yes, Australia if 5th from the right hand end of the graph.

Cheers Don...

Butt

Oz is among the Elite Highest usage of Computers per household.
Now if Howie was still driving the boat, we'd be pretty much the same
place we are now. But After Ruddy installs a super fast highway that
only the government will be able to afford, we're still going to be in
the same boat.

No matter what happens, we will always be paying too much for too
little, that much is a certainty.

 

[Clocky]

Perhaps - but in a day or two you'd be so hungry you wouldn't even notice
if the farmers were whinging.

Farmers whinge by default.

 

[Clocky]

I've never been to Perth or Hobart and only visit Adelaide roughly once a
year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from memory none of the Capital cities
have Uranium/Gold/Iron/Coal etc mines in the middle of them and I believe
that most of the food growing areas are outside the cities. That being the
case it's hard to see what the Capital cities do other than consume our
products, produce copious pollution and provide services to support the
productive regions of Australia that keep people like you in a comfortable
lifestyle.

Which has sweet **** all to do with my internet experience being restricted
to appease a minority group.

 

[PhilD]

Which has sweet **** all to do with my internet experience being
restricted to appease a minority group.

I never said it was related and you should be able to get a suitable speed
internet, and so should everyone. My comments were about your view of
non-city people. If you take domestic and export production, the "minority
that live in the middle of nowhere" that you so willingly put down
contribute far more to GDP and export income than major city people ever
could. The wealth of the whole country that gives you the luxury to have
your high speed internet is dependent on a healthy economy. The ability for
business's to operate effectively with all forms of communication doesn't
just stop at the edge of the capital cities. Those mines/farms/country
towns/people further out happen to also improve their operation by getting
an effective communications system at reasonable cost.

You remind me of a child on first finding out that honey isn't just
something that magically appears on a Coles/Woolworths shelf, it actually
comes from the work of people/animals that you put down as being a "minority
group". You need a similar waking up experience, or maybe you just need to
grow up.

PhilD

 

[terryc]

Yeahbut if we didnt buy your stuff you would be winging about that too

Most farm produce in Australia is exported anyway.

 

[terryc]

Minority groups and crackpots are the only ones that have rights or a
voice in this society in case you havent noticed.

Well, all you have to do is look at the collective contents of our
parliaments to tell you want the majority do. Baah, baaah, baah.....

 

[Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF]

Most farm produce in Australia is exported anyway.

Most farm produce on Australian supermarket shelves is imported.

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