Friends of similar worlds, how's internet connection in your area?

My internet is great. But your situation gives you a good excuse for not responding to messages here. Lol.

Manageable, yet not ok. This is more a suburban area. Not either rural, nor urban. So there's always something lacking.

[quote]can't even download a lecture[/quote]
You can use programs like wget to download instead of the web browser. You can tell wget to keep on retrying until it succeeds.

See http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.html

Generally good but I live in a moderately well-populated area with a short distances from the exchanges, and I think most the cabling now to the street distribution points is glass-fibre in place of copper.

Estimated download speed, 63-70 Mbps. Fast enough for all my needs and wants.

16-18 Mbps the other way but I don't send much material out.

I do know though that a lot of rural areas have much less powerful services.

It's slow but pretty consistent.

It's alright. It's usually pretty snappy but sometimes drops randomly.