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> * For reference, my last flat in Berlin (the capital of the largest economy in the EU), on the ground on a main street in the city center, was serviced with approximately 14MBps ADSL, and this was the fastest offering available from any vendor.*

That seems really low to me. I was under the impression that Europe had generally better internet access than in the US. Comcast delivers much better speeds than that even to boondocks cities, let alone major metropolitan areas?



It has. I have 100mb/s in Berlin. Seems that his street is not connected well, or he lives too far away from the distribution node, there is also 1gb/s cable in some streets.


The location in question was in Skalitzer Strasse, only 50-100m from Lausitzer Platz and Görlitzer Park.

I had better connectivity to Freifunk via their churchtower hub in Lausitzer Platz than I did to the actual internet.

You'd think something that central would be better connected, especially directly along the U1. Oh well.




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