As I said befor (One other reason to love Netherlands) recently I was in Netherlands and I continued my job: How is access in Amsterdam. I've just updated the Fedora Core 5 Linux on my laptop and took an screen shot. Here it is:



As you can see this is 8 mega bits recieve (and 1 mega bits send) line. My host said that this connection costs her around 20 euros each month.

Ok ! know I'm back in Tehran. I'm one of the lucky people with an ADSL access at my home. I have to mention that "being lucky" means paying 1/20 of my montly salary for this connection: 20 euros. Let's update the laptop again and have a new screenshot:



wow.. At best, this is an 128 kilo bit per seccond line and I'm paying 20 euros for it. Don't forget that this line is filtered and you can not search for "women" on it or check to "youtube" or ...