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europe is small and densely populated so they don't have to lay the miles of cable to reach remote places. that said, the fios guys are showing up friday so i'll have 15/2 which is fast enough.


Cleetus lives in the NYC hive which I think is not less densely populated than mostly European cities. I think it has more to do with the regulatory environment - there's no requirement from regulators to offer broadband (and the US just went through moving away from a unified national communications system 25 years ago).

The one advantage of the US approach is that many areas have access to multiple economic broadband connections, which I think is rare in the rest of the world. I have some clients set up with both DSL and a cable modem.

I "only" have 10 Mbit of download bandwidth, but it's spread across two WANs, and even though neither is nearly as reliable as the UUNET line I used to have the combination of the two is, and is far cheaper. A small business can easily afford this.
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