Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
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Re: Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
#2It’s not just the speed. The costs are depressing as well. A 50Mbps connection (DSL, because cable is not even available in this area) at my current location costs €40/month. 40! It’s mind-blowing.
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#3It's really expensive for companies, too. The company I work for (small to medium sized) has a 34/34 Mbit/s fiber connection and it costs us 600€ per month. Included are 8 IPv4 addresses and an 8h response time (which has never been met and when we sued after a week of non-working internet, we lost in court).
It's just ridiculous how expensive it is for businesses. We simply cannot afford a 100/100 MBit/s connection and we are located in a larger city near the center, not even in a rural area that needs an extra fiber just for us.
So it doesn't come as a surprise that German companies are so much behind Americans in the tech sector. My company has a lot of manufacturing customers and we don't even need to think about a cloud strategy because most of them are still on 6/0.6 MBit/s DSL connections. So it's on-premises or nothing.
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#4I came back from Germany in April. Infrastructure (trains, roads, airports) are wonderful, compare that with crawling slow internet.
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#5Wait, average internet speed in the US is 120 Mbits? About a gigabyte in 1 minute?
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#6It’s not just the speed. The costs are depressing as well. A 50Mbps connection (DSL, because cable is not even available in this area) at my current location costs €40/month. 40! It’s mind-blowing.
Why do you consider that expensive? If it’s reliable, it sounds very reasonable to me. 1 dinner out.
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#7I came back from Germany in April. Infrastructure (trains, roads, airports) are wonderful, compare that with crawling slow internet.
I can assure you that trains are as bad as Internet.
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#8Germany sounds like it's about in line with suburban America.
Re: Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
#9It’s not just the speed. The costs are depressing as well. A 50Mbps connection (DSL, because cable is not even available in this area) at my current location costs €40/month. 40! It’s mind-blowing.
Wow, I wish you could get a reliable 50mbps connection in Australia for that cheap. The government is still installing new Fibre to the node (DSL) there which can max out as low as 12mbps.
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#10It’s not just the speed. The costs are depressing as well. A 50Mbps connection (DSL, because cable is not even available in this area) at my current location costs €40/month. 40! It’s mind-blowing.
Home internet regularly costs $80 in the US, or roughly €72. €40 seems pretty reasonable by comparison.