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Originally Posted by
hypermj
I was speaking more from a dev pov ( any kind of optimization is a dev cost and usually requires to design proactively for it ) but user pov is always valuable, thanks
I know that optimisation is dev cost (I work in a software development company), and that this usually means lots of hard work noone thanks you for

. Which is why I appreciate it all the more.
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Originally Posted by
hypermj
well, if anything less than fiber glass is "rural", then my country is 90% rural area I think

Ah, should have elaborated on that a bit more.
I live in the Netherlands now, and over the last few years we had a huge push (encouraged by the government, I guess) to get glassfibre (FTTH "fibre to the home", specifically) laid down wherever possible.
According to Akamai, the Netherlands are #6 worldwide in average connection speed.
Here's a good map of average speed per country in Europe:
http://jakubmarian.com/average-inter...try-in-europe/
Now, averages never tell the whole story, naturally. And this is where we get back to the "rural areas":
I'm originally from Germany. DSL via copper cable is still the predominant technology there (different issue, not going into that now), followed by TV cable.
But you still have a lot of less populated and/or further out areas, where the lines are too long to make DSL feasible without significant extra investments. Those poor folks frequently are still stuck with ISDN and/or Satellite uplink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Germany has some info, if you are curious.
That was what I had in mind when I mentioned "rural areas". Didn't realise how much assumed knowledge is in that short statement. Sorry for that.