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Old 06-11-2011, 05:27 PM  
rowan
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by garce View Post
In Canada you'd get a gigabit connection, but would be limited to 60GB per month unless you bought bandwidth insurance.

I've got a fiber optic connection and I can easily run through my allotted bandwidth in a week. Even a pathetic 20Mbps connection is more than this backwards country can handle. I don't even have NetFlix.
Sounds a bit like Australia.

Back in the mid 1990s they introduced cable modems, with a speed of 10Mbps (I think), which WAS fast then. Catch is there was a ridiculous 100MB download limit, with excessive penalty rates after that. The net overall was a lot slower back then but it was still easy to go through the download limit in less than a day.

Someone likened it to driving a Ferrari on a racetrack, but you ran out of fuel 10 seconds later at the first turn.
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