[elmotri]

Germany and UK were not even able to get in the ranking of the FTTH Council Europe… They do both not have 1% of all and at least 200.000 households connected to fiber… what a shame

[Nux]

The internet in UK (London, Virginmedia) is terrible; whenever I need to download and especially upload something (some video, hires pictures, system backups) there is serious swearing involved. In comparison, _eight_ years ago in Bucharest I had 100/100 Mbps, just like anyone else.

At least Virgin realised they suck at it and sold the Broadband division to UPC/Chello, but that's not much reason to be optimistic.

[EwanToo]

I don't know what the deal is in Germany, but in the UK BT have finally launched a FTTH option, so the numbers will start creeping up.

The name, in case anyone wants to look it up, is "BT Infinity 160Mbps" - it's 160Mbps down, 20Mbps up.

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/fas...

[kayoone]

In Germany you can easily get >100Mbps through cable in many cities. FTTH would be nice, but overall i dont think average broadband speeds are really lacking behind that much. I got 50/5Mbit cable at home and 120/10Mbit in the office.