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>> For example, I once measured the time to send a “ping” to downtown Toronto from my home office in the suburbs. It took 0.13s to get downtown and back. That is the normal ping time for Istanbul, Turkey, roughly 8,000 km away.

Ya. Canada is like that. Lack of choice in ISPs, high costs and horrible uptime performance.

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Yup, it was Rogers, which is what my building has, and which I'm stuck with for TV. Other, luckier, people can have Bell (sorta-maybe better) or TekSavvy (definitely better)

The terrible performance is spotty: that was a particularly glaring example I detected when everything was failing (:-))

I'm with Bell for my home internet. I had no choice. It was either them or a cellular connection. Install went ok, but the kid got a panicked look in his eyes when he realized I knew what "1.5gb" actually meant. He had me plugged in using some shoddy cables that couldn't handler more than 100mbps. I fixed it once he left.

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