On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 03:11 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 7/12/10 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> Ah, I must pity you who have to live with what you've got in the United >> States being under the rule of these tyrants. You guys probably can only >> dream of getting a 100MB fibre connection for 13USD/mnth or a 1GB fibre >> connection for 30 or so USD/mnth. I hesitate to keep the chaps in >> Australia on the list to be pitied now that Telstra is being dismantled. > > It's okay, soon we'll have a new monopoly to whinge about: NBN Co. ;) > > The real problem here is the quotas on broadband connections, although > that is in part due to the cost of hauling almost all the data > half-way around the globe. Thanks Ben, you just gave me another thing to coo about that I had forgotten. What quotas? :-p > > The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects > everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when > Australia does get this fabled fibre-to-the-home, it still won't be > symmetric. *sigh* > Fibre connections that are not symmetric...sure going out of the way that.