How The INTERNET in GERMANY 🇩🇪 is Totally Different Than in America

Just because it is known as the world wide web does not mean that everybody's experience using it is going to be the same around the world! We discovered this to be particular true after we moved from America to Germany and realized that Germany has some major digitalization issues... 😊

00:00 - Beginning
1:42 - Difference #1
5:33 - Difference #2
7:32 - Difference #3
9:11 - Difference #4
13:12 - Difference #5
15:00 - Difference #6

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[atdynax]

I live in Germany and have 270 mbps. My walls are 7-8 cm thick. Where i grew up i had only 4MBps and only 2G phone internet. The reason why Internet is so bad is because Helmut Kohl stopped the fiber optic distribution when he was Chancellor.

[interculturalcat]

When compared to other countries regarding internet connectivity and speed, it always aches me being from Germany. The government always talks a lot about to improve everything, but still in the last 10 years little is done.

[essemPlays]

As a computer scientist, it's always painful for me to hear when someone is measuring their internet connection over wlan and then blaming their ISP. Wlan performance is unreliable and can be influenced by a LOT. I installed a 10m cable to my router because i was sick of lower speeds and interruptions.

[TheAxel]

I work for one of the largest Internet service providers in Germany. Our internal joke is: "Either you live nicely or you get Internet!"
In fact, network expansion has been neglected over the last 40 years. The governments of the past decades have always retreated to the position of "the private sector will somehow fix it".

In the metropolitan areas, coverage is still mostly okay, with fiber-optic, cable and VDSL line paths now being increasingly expanded.

However, in rural areas or when it appears suspiciously idyllic when you look out of your window, the situation is usually terrible:
If at all, only old copper lines with a maximum of 16 MBit/s are available. But if the line distance is 3 kilometers or longer due to the residential location, then usually only 6 Mbit/s or less trickle out at the other end.

In such desperate situations, the only thing that helps is switching over to 4G or calling a psychologist.

[Nikioko]

Instead of glass fiber, Germany wet for seminal copper-cables in the early 1980s. And that has nothing to do that the wife of then postal minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling was involved in the copper industry. In fact, as we learned just recently, chancellor Helmut Schmidt made contracts to improve the German telecommunication infrastructure with fibers. But then Helmut Kohl became chancellor, and to do his good friend Leo Kirch a favour in his effort of expanding cable TV, he ordered Schwarz-Schilling to cancel those contracts and lay copper cable instead. That's why we today have ultra-fast 100 Mbit V-DSL internet on our TV cables instead of 1000 Mbit FTTH.

[sociallyawkwardpenguin]

Measuring speed tests with a wi-fi connection is pretty pointless, especially when its apparently a bad one, as it doesnt say anything about the actual line capacity.
I cant complain about internet speeds, my cable provider offer up to 1 Gbit speed at very reasonable prices. Even most DSL customers are currently getting the speeds bumped up from 100 Mbit to 250 Mbit through Vectoring.

[yasminesteinbauer]

There are browser plugins that click away the cookie messages for you.😅

[dirkschwartz]

I switched my provider and from a DSL to a cable connection just before the start of the pandemic. My current speed is 250 Mbit/s download, 25 Mbit/s upload for 40 € per month including VoIP telephony. This is for a town with 27, 000 inhabitants in the vicinity (25 km) of Bonn.

[cml]

You never measure your internet speeds over wireless!
To be honest, most people dont need more than 50Mbit, but they need this speed at the end device and there is in my opinion the problem for lots of people, they are not able to install a proper wireless network and end up with speeds below 10Mbit.

[leDespicable]

We switched providers a few years ago. Before that, we only had a 16 mbit contract, which was honestly hell on earth to use with 4 smartphones, two PCs and one laptop being in the same network at times. Now we have a 500 mbit Vodafone contract, and how we've even managed before that baffles me now...we're pretty lucky that they put in fibre-optic cables in our neighbourhood a few years ago, otherwise we'd still be stuck with horribly slow speeds.

[Greyk]

Here in a village in Schleswig-Holstein we have optical fibre with 1000mbit down and 500mbit up. Since we have 3 Access points in the house there are no slowdowns across the house :)
Price for the access is around 80-90€

[twinmama]

Yes, the internet should be considered a utility. I don't trust big corpo and rather have my government to have oversight and regulation when big corpo goes overboard with using and selling my data without my consent. Don't get me wrong, I'm pro privatization when it adds to affordability, access, convenience etc. but not for essential goods like water and in this case onformation.

[robfriedrich]

10:40 Tuvalu's internet domain is used by TV stations. YouTube itself uses Belgium's.

[myvillagelifeintheupperhar]

We live in the Upper Harz, and we have never had an issue with our internet. I teach online and have noticed no issues. I also like the cheaper cost for internet here in Germany. I am from Oklahoma also. We paid three times the rate in Oklahoma that we pay here in Germany. Unfortunately, we are geo-blocked as well.

[daniel_ghax]

I live in Cologne and got 1Gbit/s download speed.

Couple years earlier same flat, max speed of 40Mbit/s.

[galahad]

im from a small german town and we got fibre cables directly to house in the last year its a dream^^ 1gbit down 500mbit up price is kinda hefty contract is like 150€ a month ( i myself use the 200mbit down and 100mbit up line that is at arround 60€)

[hape]

Fiber optic internet is good, but wide areas of Germany already have cable TV connections, which is not bad at all and does not yearn for fiber. I for one have cable in my apartment and switched just last week from 250 to 1, 000 Mbps download and from 25 to 50 Mbps upload. I live in Augsburg, btw. I'm quite sure that everyone in Germany, who lives in cities has decent, if not perfect internet. And little villages won't have perfect internet nowhere in Europe nor in the USA.

[DrNagi]

Me from Germany: Had slow internet for the longest time but recently got upgraded to 300 mbit/s both up & down

[bonniea]

US user here - I get the cookie pop-ups on most websites too. However, I can ignore them and I believe the website assumes you've accepted their default cookie policy if you don't do anything with it. I do always check the settings tho.