Yea, enjoy your ultra fast internet while you look at the dozen or so pages that aren't filtered by the great firewall of China.

Dang, I was going to say that :-(

...and, as far as I'm aware, you will soon only be able to use that 8mbit connection to look at web sites which have applied for and received certification by the government.

Have fun with that.

..8 megabit is 32 times faster than .25 megabit...my bad...

Daemon, your ideas of China are WAY out of date. The internet here is not just as good as yours, it's probably better.

When I first came to China nine years ago, I was able to get 8 megabit unlimited up/down 24 hours a day for the price of ...$20 a MONTH.

Note this is true unlimited; I'm speaking as someone who is connected 24 hours a day. Also not that it DOES run at the advertised speed; I actually get downloads running at 1 megabyte per second and uploads the same. (Or aggregate totals running at that speed.)

At the time, Australia was offering 256K down / 128K up with a three gig per month download limit for $80 a month (Hah!!! Call that broadband??? Puny even at the time...) .... to reiterate, that's .25 megabits per second for $80 with a three gig cap, whereas China gave me 8 megabit (16 times faster) with no limits for only $20....

Nowadays you can get much faster, and the price has gone down even further .. I can get true 2 megabit up/down unlimited, for example, for $150 *A YEAR*.

So..what does your country have to offer?

..lol@300baud modems!!! (BTW I've actually used them, AND connected to bulletin boards that only allowed single users .. I think about 20 years ago???)

It won't be long before the headline reads "Canada/USA will squeeze the Internet even more." I'm trying not to sound crazy here; but who doesn't think an Internet version of 9/11 is fast approaching...

I here those blazing fast 300 baud modems are selling very well over there.
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For a government that does not officially believe in a God, aka Communism, I find it strange they would push moral values onto people like the Taliban.
Has the definition of Communism has changed, I don't think so. It's more of the same that is being dished out by ever growing governments all around the world, CONTROL