>> ADSL2+ is available pretty much everywhere here in Germany.  If I paid 10 
>> euro more per month I could have 16 Mbit/s instead of 8.  Also if I lived 
>> about 5 km closer to Munich I could get VDSL2 which is 50 Mbit/s :-D

Dream on. What you get depends on where you live. If you live in a city, 
perferably in the heart of a large city, then you are right. If you happen 
to live in the outskirts, no chance.

Examples from Berlin (German capital) and surrounding areas:

- Berlin outskirts, near the former Berlin wall (1 Mbit/s downstream, 128 kB 
upstream)
- regular street but: street surface is sand - when it rains the area 
becomes unpassable, have seen more sound streets in Egypt - at least they 
were dry...

- Brieselang, 11.000 inhabitants, 15km west of Berlin
- center of town, 1 minute away from train station (3 Mbit/s downstream)
- other, more remote areas: less than 1Mbit/s

- other areas in east Germany (the areas where there are just 20 year old 
glass-fibre cables available)
- ISDN available only, no ADSL (max. 2x 64 kbit/s at forbidding cost)

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