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cries in $60 for 50/20 D:
australia.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I'm Aussie but I live in the USA now. I've heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren't symmetric? Crazy for a network that's supposed to be "modern".
I had ADSL2+ "up to 24Mbps" in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was... an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
Yup. No symmetric gigabit plans here. But you have to have fttp to get gigabit. Which, thanks to the Liberal government, hardly anyone has.
What's crazy to me is that some of the big internet companies in the USA are rolling out symmetric 2Gbps over cable using DOCSIS 4.0, by upgrading their equipment. In theory that should be possible over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks in Australia too, yet I haven't heard of any attempts to do this.
Bruh, I get 50 Mbps for less than 10 USD.