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 > -- > Peter Sjoberg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Cheers! Rick Eeny, Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak! -- Bullwinkle Moose