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Why, it's really fast in Europe: "Sorry, this video is not available in your country" loads impressively efficiently.

I though Europe had much better access to fast and cheap Internet compared to USA? Lowest offering from my ISP is 100/10 for around $16. No problems with HD video. Especially not with Youtube's interpretation of HD.

I don't know about USA but most "third world" eastern europe countries have some of the best internet infrastructures in the world with peanut prices.

Europe is made of many independent countries with different regulations and different operators.

In France it's €30 for triple-play, €20 for Internet only, but less than 50% have access to optical fiber. For more than half it's still ADSL. It works great if you live close to the telephone exchange, otherwise it can be very slow.

Grouping is a habit common by Americans, that I am still not able to grasp. They say Africans, Arabs, Asians, poor countries, third-world countries, Europe, Asians, etc. I specially hate it when they say I went Africa and now "The Muslims" all thrown together in politics, ugh.

You are modded down but internet in India is faster AND cheaper than USA.

But much less reliable, in my experience.