Comment Broadband Backwater? (Score 1) 847
Try it at this end. I am living in a capital city in Australia and broadband is the exception. The vast majority of home internet connections are dialup. A large amount of people don't have access to broadband at all.
It is quite amusing to see the expressions on both sides when American IT professionals come over here to talk about setting up systems over WANs. The costs for what most Americans consider minimum requirments are astronomical.