What's the general connection speed of everyone on HN? Does anyone have an insane connection?<p>Mine is 4Mbit/s in South Africa, we're getting 8Mbit/s soon and possibly 10Mbit/s. It's pretty expensive; ~$200 p/m for an shaped and uncapped connection.
I know this isn't Reddit so hopefully there will be no whining to preempt here. But I just want to point out that except for two cases on this list, these are just pilot programs, and of the production installations only Sweden's seems widely available.
Several companies offer this here in Norway.<p>We used to live in a building with 140 apartments, and it shocked me that we had to work for close to 6 months to find more than 10 people interested in getting a true 1Gbps link installed. The rates would end up being cheaper than the ADSL/cable people already had, but still no go.<p>Originally, we were supposed to bring on board more than 20 people, but the company installing the link felt so bad for us that they went ahead with the few we managed to find anyways.<p>And then we moved to get out of the city. Back to unstable and horrible cable. Bleh.
What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too?<p><i>That</i> would make me happy. :)
<i>Canberra, Australia: TransACT, an Australian service provider, is trailing a network with speeds of up to 1 Gbps for residential customers.</i><p>Uh-huh. What's the quota (bandwidth limit)? Knowing Australia, it's something like 30GB/month, meaning that theoretically you could burn through your entire monthly allocation in under 5 minutes.<p>iiNet and Internode are also playing around with fibre in some new housing estates, here's an internode pricelist:<p><a href="http://www.internode.on.net/pdf/products/home-fibre-pricelist.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.internode.on.net/pdf/products/home-fibre-pricelis...</a> [PDF]<p>Oh boy, $99 a month for 15GB of data, but it's delivered <i>really</i> quickly!