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>>37390
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_subscriptions
Who knows. I don't know anything about internet here. But here, it's ruined by a monopoly of the vast majority of infrastructure, which raises price ridiculously for ISPs who, at some point, have to deal with the one company that has little reason to compromise. Because of this, there are cases where it costs more to move data over a single room than across the ocean. Maybe that's the standard, though? Who knows.
Presumably, after a few years the current plan to introduce fiber infrastructure nationwide will improve the situation by increasing speed and lessening the relevance of monopolizing the existing copper. Still, that's a network within the country, but I believe there are still very few undersea cables connecting us with the rest of the world, which is part of the problem.
Compare it with the US, for instance, which doesn't actually have very good internet either. Australia has near-universal data limits on internet usage, and these limits are generally very low. In America, some ISPs have usage limits, but they're unofficial and only vaguely drawn boundaries, starting from something like 250gb a month. To get that much in Australia you'd need to be with a good ISP and it'd cost you say 85 USD. The cost of a connection is much more for an inferior service.
Though, despite the Australian dollar being worth more than the USD, everything seems to cost much more here in general. Especially when it comes to digital media. For instance, for a new major video game title on PC, xbox 360 or ps3, you can expect to pay around 107 USD or more. Prices on steam are also inflated for Australian customers due to the publishers choosing pricing by region. The same goes for European customers, though I think we have it worse. Skyrim would cost me 96 USD from steam, and I think I paid around that from gamestop even though I'd usually import because I couldn't bare getting it a day late.
But the minimum wage here is also something like double the USD of the US one. That probably has more to do with the distribution of wealth difference between the two countries than anything else though, and maybe it doesn't really affect the base price of things. I couldn't understand the first thing about economics if I tried.
Anyway, I've actually been satisfied with my internet for a long time now since usage limits improved steadily over the last few years. I think that was due to more undersea cables being constructed, increasing competition for the cost of transferring data. I get more a month than I can use without putting in a serious effort, and although my speed is terrible relative to others, it's enough to not test my patience. But that's talking in terms of downloads. Uploading at a fast speed is, I believe, simply impossible with DSL infrastructure. The maximum upload you can get is 1mbps. I could try cable, but I think cable internet is probably terrible in general here. Or it was in my area. Back when I played WoW having cable would cause me to drop out constantly and be able to reconnect in prime time, which always got me kicked from raids or unable to join them in the first place. I had to switch to DSL just to finally be free of that. However, it might have just been me. So, though I do wish I could upload at a decent more so I could stream you all all see my shotacon collection and other such things, I've given up on that.
I wonder what kind of connection Cake has. Either he lives down the street from the exchange or he has cable the likes of which I've never seen. I don't remember what his upload speed is, but his download speed was something like twelve times mine at the time.
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