this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Would love to see average cost per megabit as well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is Romania hogging all the speed compared to their neighbours?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sitting here in rural mountain Canada with 980Mbps 🥴

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I definitely am. It's crazy that after moving from Toronto and formerly in Vancouver and Montreal that I have better access to faster Internet that's even cheaper than the metros is out here in the boonies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm in a Canadian metropolis and feel lucky for my 60mbps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And this is why I'm in a Canadian metropolis and feel guilty for my 2Gbps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean I could upgrade to something like 400Mbps for twice what I'm paying now, but I see no reason to. The one thing that bugs me are the ridiculously low upload speeds in most internet plans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not even top tier Internet or here - 4 hours from any city...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Average is not that helpful, ADSL tops out at about 24Mbps, FTTC 80Mbps, and FTTP 2.5Gbps. however you can get the higher speed products in slower speeds, so a percentage of population per higher possible teir would be better to look at. My parents went with 200mbps cable, even though 1gbps was available, based on cost and need

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feel free to share if you have a better map or table

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best I can do is UK data https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-broadband-coverage-and-speeds/

Most interesting is the second one, select national overview the slower connections. Unless you want a deep dive in to local constituency speeds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Tippon 2 points 1 month ago

To add to this, high speed plans can skew the results. A few years ago, the maximum available speed in my area was around 16Mbps over ADSL. It's an old area that had old copper lines to most buildings. Lots of places were still on around 3Mbps. Fibre rollout had recently started, so pockets had gigabit speeds. Because they were in the same postcode area, all the speed checker sites started saying that the average for the area was 75Mbps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

would love to see percent with data caps as well

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not a thing on land lines in Europe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not even Russia or Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We only have caps on mobile data around here, Ethernet connections are generally unlimited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What countries still have cap on mobile data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I guess it's not a hard cap, you just pay extra when you go over, depending on your plan and mobile data provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this community a move of [email protected] to piefed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, that's the idea. I was feeling like people were missing the "casual" part of [email protected], and were posting political content, which wasn't really in the scope.

Also thought it would be nice to give the new Piefed features a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

cool! I’ll stay subbed to both, see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well... looks like you will only have one now.