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And now for a bit of perspective, here in India I am working with a 512kbps connection, which is the only one I can get without any 'fair use' caps. The latency for the fastest DNS is about 350ms, and on weekends, my bandwidth can be as low as 200kbps.

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Are you in a major city or a more outlying area? Is that a wired, or wireless, connection? Even wired access could have wireless backhaul... assuming yours is wired, is that the reason for the slowness, or have they really been mad at work all over India laying conduit with copper instead of fiber?

It is is same all over the country. That's the only plan without any 'fair usage cap'. You might get 4Mbps for $55, but after 15GB of usage, the bandwidth will be cut down for the remaining month.

Also, 3G just launched in India. No more than 50 cities have it, and the maximum they can provide is 32Mbps, again with some fair usage cap!

Probably in an outlying area. I live in Hyderabad, and I get 4 Mbps for ~$55. Sigh.

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