The ability for windows 10 updates to be shared across computers in a network (signatures are still verified of course) doesn't sound so bad in cases like this.

Interesting definition of "developed"...

I'm in Sydney, at home my fastest option is ADSL2+ which gets me 15-16Mbit on a good day (7-8 if it's rained much recently...)

My ISP contacted me mid last year to offer pre-signups for our "National Broadband Network" on Sept 4th. A couple of months ago it became public that the old HFC cables they were planning to use were completely not up to the task, with major problems reported pretty much everywhere it'd already been rolled out, and they've now stopped and new HFC rollout using that (Optus) coax for at least 9 months.

I _think_ Sydney Australia counts as "the developed world", but even 100Mbit for me right now is at least a year away...

Why do you think this? The U.S. is among the worst in the "developed" world. More specifically it's highly fragmented.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/616210/average-internet-... https://www.recode.net/2017/9/7/16264430/fastest-broadband-s...

Hardly. I live in Germany and I was able to upgrade to 50,000kbit/s, of which I effectively get ~35,000 most of the time, only last year. Before that it was 5,000 for a few years and before that I was happy to have 1,000.

And I don't live in the country either, I'm a 10 minute walk away from a technical university und multiple research institutes.

Funnily enough, I had 100mbps fibre when I lived in Africa. Now that I live in the UK my best option is 12mbps ADSL.

I'm in freaking Seattle and this isn't available in most of the city limits.

That is utterly incorrect. I get 15% of that under ideal circumstances.