Not really surprising considering how sparsely populated Finland is. On the other hand, you can get really fast connections for quite cheap in cities.
landgeist maps are utter trash tabloid kind of bullshit.
im german, permant residency in finland. I can bet you my bratwurst that finland has 10x faster internet than germany, no matter if city or countryside.
My speed is like 5.8 MB/s still, and if I upgrade to a better one, it won’t work at all because of katve I recall, despite living in southern Finland and not in a forest either. This is from Elisa. DNA would offer a faster speed probably.
I call BS because I lived in Germany and my internet speed has always been waay better in Finland
I have had 200/50 last 10 years in Finland and next month 1000/1000
I guess this could be right for finland, there probably is bunch of people who have not updated their internet speed in decade. Doubtful about some of the other countries 😀
Personally I lowered my home internet speed to 100mbps because I got it for free for 2 years, so for free its good enough, mobile speed depends if there happens to be good 5G reception, just now ran speedtest and it shows 222mbps (I get this “free” also as its my phone benefit from work).
Haven’t found the need for those extra high speeds. Last time I complained was when was using 3G. Now have the slowest possible light. They do try and try to sell 10x the speed, but don’t want to pay extra for something I don’t need. Maybe will change my mind if will watch 4K movies.
Would be nice to see this map, but with areas in countrys. There is huge differences in finland atleast.
I came here to say Vitun Telia
I Hotspot my phone and get faster internet than my buddy with fiber optic back in Massachusetts
So, I live in Finland (Vantaa) and I recently got fiber to my 100 year old omakotitalo (house). It was free of charge to install and costs me 39€/month. Took them 2 years from sales call to actually getting it done, but now it’s definitely worth the wait. My point is that Finland is pretty aggressively pushing fiber to houses now with very low cost of entry. The projects are a total shitshow, but in the end you only have to deal with that for a year or two and then you have the fiber. Hopefully for the useful lifetime of your house. And since the pipes are laid, they could just blow new fiber through them if they need replacing.
In a big chunk of Spain you are lucky if you have a half functioning slow ass connection. That map is BS
My internet speed is dramatically better than in the UK and I know my friends there still suffer. Only my experience but I don’t see any relation here to reality.
No idea about the accuracy of the speeds, but internet speeds are so much better in Finland than many countries on this map with supposedly higher results.
One that’s not on the map, is Australia. The speeds there are easily a tenth of Finland’s, at 2-4 times the price. It’s incredible how affordable internet access here is.
My internet is free via my work now, but when I did pay for it, I was paying around 30-35€/month for around 1000 MBps. That would easily be 70-100€ in Australia.
Makes sense because it’s all averages, some places in Finland don’t even have good 4G internet to tap into. I had 4G for years in my location but now full stick 1 gigabyte fiber. Went from 25 Mbps down 5 up to 1000 Mbps down 1000 up after paying for the ground works.
Makes sense to me, we have no option for fiber. DSL is 100/10 plan but in reality 50/10.
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Not really surprising considering how sparsely populated Finland is. On the other hand, you can get really fast connections for quite cheap in cities.
landgeist maps are utter trash tabloid kind of bullshit.
im german, permant residency in finland. I can bet you my bratwurst that finland has 10x faster internet than germany, no matter if city or countryside.
My speed is like 5.8 MB/s still, and if I upgrade to a better one, it won’t work at all because of katve I recall, despite living in southern Finland and not in a forest either. This is from Elisa. DNA would offer a faster speed probably.
I call BS because I lived in Germany and my internet speed has always been waay better in Finland
I have had 200/50 last 10 years in Finland and next month 1000/1000
I guess this could be right for finland, there probably is bunch of people who have not updated their internet speed in decade. Doubtful about some of the other countries 😀
Personally I lowered my home internet speed to 100mbps because I got it for free for 2 years, so for free its good enough, mobile speed depends if there happens to be good 5G reception, just now ran speedtest and it shows 222mbps (I get this “free” also as its my phone benefit from work).
Haven’t found the need for those extra high speeds. Last time I complained was when was using 3G. Now have the slowest possible light. They do try and try to sell 10x the speed, but don’t want to pay extra for something I don’t need. Maybe will change my mind if will watch 4K movies.
Would be nice to see this map, but with areas in countrys. There is huge differences in finland atleast.
I came here to say Vitun Telia
I Hotspot my phone and get faster internet than my buddy with fiber optic back in Massachusetts
So, I live in Finland (Vantaa) and I recently got fiber to my 100 year old omakotitalo (house). It was free of charge to install and costs me 39€/month. Took them 2 years from sales call to actually getting it done, but now it’s definitely worth the wait. My point is that Finland is pretty aggressively pushing fiber to houses now with very low cost of entry. The projects are a total shitshow, but in the end you only have to deal with that for a year or two and then you have the fiber. Hopefully for the useful lifetime of your house. And since the pipes are laid, they could just blow new fiber through them if they need replacing.
In a big chunk of Spain you are lucky if you have a half functioning slow ass connection. That map is BS
My internet speed is dramatically better than in the UK and I know my friends there still suffer. Only my experience but I don’t see any relation here to reality.
No idea about the accuracy of the speeds, but internet speeds are so much better in Finland than many countries on this map with supposedly higher results.
One that’s not on the map, is Australia. The speeds there are easily a tenth of Finland’s, at 2-4 times the price. It’s incredible how affordable internet access here is.
My internet is free via my work now, but when I did pay for it, I was paying around 30-35€/month for around 1000 MBps. That would easily be 70-100€ in Australia.
Makes sense because it’s all averages, some places in Finland don’t even have good 4G internet to tap into. I had 4G for years in my location but now full stick 1 gigabyte fiber. Went from 25 Mbps down 5 up to 1000 Mbps down 1000 up after paying for the ground works.
Makes sense to me, we have no option for fiber. DSL is 100/10 plan but in reality 50/10.
The map uses this speed test for the measurements: https://www.cable.co.uk/broadband/speed/
No idea, why they dive such low values for Finland.
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