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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Symmetric broadband provider

2010/9/30 Peter Sjoberg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca>

> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 15:07 -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote:
>
> My parents in Sweden lives in outside Jävre(pop 600) just south of
> Piteå(pop 40000), a Ottawa equivalent would be something like outskirts
> of North Gower or so. They (and there neighbours) have fibre to the farm
> house and can subscribe to 100MBit up & down for 320sek/$45cad per
> month! (yes, I have seriously considered colocate a server there)
> And that is not some kind of exception, when I think about it I don't
> know anyone in Sweden that doesn't at least have access to high speed
> (>10MBit) internet. If you belong to the people who doesn't have a fibre
> connection (I know none) you can still get up 60/20Mbit over ADSL if you
> close enough to the CO (<500m, scales down to 2/.1MBit 7km away)
>

Yes, compared to the rest of the world, our Internet is expensive and the
bandwidth sucks.

Then there is packet shaping, lac


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