WhatsApp is as popular as it is because it's a cross-platform group messenger. Not locked to android or apple, can do lots of things sms can't. There are technically better options nowadays, but for that kind of service, ubiquity/availability is the number one priority, and WhatsApp as the oldest service is the app that everyone has, so changing to something with better ui or privacy makes all groups you'd need impossible, so WhatsApp stays far at the top.

If you want to know why people use WhatsApp in Germany, it started when most kids / teenagers had prepaid cash on their phone, and most people had to pay around 20 cent for each sms. They did however mostly all had a internet Flatrate. So to get around paying for each message they used WhatsApp, which sends messages over the internet so you did not pay anything other than your internet flatrate. Moreover WhatsApp added the ability to see if your friend is online, or even send voice messages. I think another reason is that most people here do not have an iphone but instead use Android phones.

I live in Munich, our download is 934.76 Mbps (just did the speedtest). But what "patchy internet availibility" in Germany really means (at least to me) refers to the speed and coverage of internet OUTSIDE your home when you access with your mobile dataplan. And that is indeed so patchy and thus very annoying!

Just to clarify - in germany a fax is a legal document - that means signed contracts can be sent by fax and are legally binding - emails are not. This explains why govenrnment offices have fax machines. By the way, in the video you showed they were having problems with the WiFi (which is NOT the internet connection). They should get a better router. Generally proces here are VERY much cheaper that in the USA.

Wether it be Android or iOS, almost everybody has Whatsapp. In a 2020 survey 94% said they used WhatsApp on a regular basis. nobody uses SMS anymore or the integrated default apps. I also think its is much more user friendly and just nicer to handle compared to the SMS apps that are installed by default that you use (which wouldnt work anyway here cause SMS is not free)

These cookie banners are pro consumer rights and it should be made more obvious and clear how to denie all tracking cookies in each method. Getting rid of them would be a very bad idea.(Unless you ban tracking cookies altogether)

I don't even remember the last time I sent a regular text message. It just seems like a nostalgic thing of the past to me. WhatsApp has become the norm here pretty much since the arrival of smart phones. Part of the reason is that Android phones have a much larger market share and so the apple specific messaging features aren't something you can use for texting most people. WhatsApp on the other hand is universally compatible. Also the rates for text messages were always specific to your cellphone plan and texting or calling internationally comes at a higher cost and back in the day you often still paid per message sent which was also circumvented by using WhatsApp since it just uses your regular data plan regardless where the person you call or text is located.

It's shocking that they don't use WhatsApp when almost everybody in the world uses it. I communicate with my boss and my clients through WhatsApp, with my friends and family, I don't know what I would do without WhatsApp. And for those who wonder why WhatsApp and not a text message, I don't know in other countries but here for each message you have to pay, you can also make groups, send gifs, images etc. but I think it is useful because everyone has a WhatsApp account

The smartphone market in europe isn't an almost monopol of apple. And texting/iMessage is only good for apple devices. The normal messaging is quite limited. It sucks with pretty much everything else than plain text. For us it is just normal to have an extra app. It's usually the first app to install on a new phone. Good thing is that it's accessible for almost everyone because it runs on every smartphone equally. Even cheap /old ones. In the US you almost have to have an iPhone. Edit: almost monopol is too strong. I looked up the markest share now and it's "only" roundabout 55%. That leads me to the question: How can americans without an iPhone not use a third party messaging service? I mean normal SMS an MMS is pretty shitty, isn't it?

A few years ago, a lot of UKposts was actually geoblocked in Germany (up until the end of 2016). All videos that contained music and all VEVO videos (even if they didn't have music in them) were blocked and they didn't even turn up in the UKposts search. The reason for this was a dispute between Google and GEMA, which licenses music in Germany. Needless to say, I used a VPN before it was cool lol.

Almost everyone who has friends in other countries uses WhatsApp, also people from the US. Maybe it depends on where you live in the US or how international your work and daily life is.but when you travel a lot and you’re in countries all over the world, you know and use WhatsApp.

Hmm...I was really surprised by the supposed slow internet in germany, because my internet is insanely fast...then he mentioned that Cologne (Köln) had 80% fibre optic cables...And I live in Cologne...So that may be the case 😅 Also, I thought WhatsApp existed everywhere...it's like the main way we text in Germany, we hardly ever use regular texts, since texting using WhatsApp only requires an internet connection and is free otherwise, so no additional costs occur. 🤷🏼‍♀️ - But yeah, the cookie pop-ups can be annoying, but they are incredibly important and make me feel more comfortable, because I DO want to reject them. So it's important to have the option, and be able to protect oneself.

Also a German here, living in a small village of 500 people 30 minutes away from any city and i have 250/40 internet and it is also delivered. Regarding Cooky banner, it is important for me to select if i give consent or not because of privacy concerns. If they are annoying then there are browser extension for firefox and chromium-base which always will accept or decline them automatically.

ngl this was a shock for me when i found out people doesn`t use whatsapp in other countries hahaha

I assumed WhatsApp was widely known and used. It's preferable to texts because you can also send photos and videos, voice messages & make international phone calls for free - which is invaluable to people like myself who live far away from their family, and to be honest, it's still great for sharing things with people you see regularly. Many workplaces, sports groups etc. also use it because you can create chats with multiple people and that way keep everyone up to date rather than having to text them individually. It seems odd to me that it's not used in America... What do you use instead?

It’s actually mind blowing every time, that people wouldn’t use WhatsApp on other parts of the worlds. But also we had an exchange student from Korea and they asked me for my Kakao and with my friends in Japan I use Line. And I remember back in the days, when my extended family (mostly living in Belgium and France) bullied me into downloading Viber (feels like that one died down, lol). Texting is really quite different depending on your country.

SMS feel a bit old-fashioned now, but are also more expensive than Whatsapp messages unless you have a flatrate. I learnt somewhere that many Americans use preinstalled messaging apps on Apple devices, but here Apple has the image of being overpriced (I think that too). Their fans usually pay for the brand, not the device, and you have to be able to afford that to begin with. So most people I know have Android phones.

In my opnion: One should not (neccessarily) mix up "the internet" VS "the state of digitalisation of society" As an example of Geoblocking. If I wanted to watch a on-demand stream of content from a certain U.S. network (a popular TV show for example), I may be denied access for playing that video. Just because I am not located in the U.S. but in Germany IP wise.

Many people already wrote about the advantages of messenger Apps like WhatsApp. Another is the ability to do video calls no matter which device the other person owns. And if you are on vacation in a country outside the EU you simply need a moderate Wifi connection to still do video calls or send photos and videos you‘ve taken.

One problem why fax machines are still widely used in Germany is also the German jurisdiction in courts: Many formal letters to authorities are considered invalid if they are sent digitally/online etc. and not sent by post, fax or delivered in person. Even we Germans have been making fun of this for a long time. But the judges and the authorities in particular still live in the digital stone age in many cases.

Most people in Australia use Whatsapp. Good for creating groups and seeing who and when the messages have been read.

As a German, living in a small 2000 people village, I have stable 250/40. my parents with next neighbours in >200m away have fibre with gigabits of internet possible 😅

I do not think that the computers are outdated here in Germany but yes they stick to the old fashion way like working very much with papers. The want to move and have real physical work (that is what I observed).Take note, Germany is more on saving, saving saving and saving!

There is geoblocking from US sites in Germany. I use a VPN to get onto US sites. I live in a rural area in Germany. Our Internet is OK. It is difficult to stream different content from more than one device. But we just signed up for fibre optics so it should be better soon.

Im in Australia, and I use whats app to talk to my friends overseas, and when I was travelling (precovid) to Hong Kong, I could call home for free using my own phone

Fun thing: Kim Dotcom is actually from Germany. His story is quite interesting.

Mate, your clips are always very interesting - thanks for sharing on YT! I‘d love to see one where you watch Switzerland (I‘m Swiss).. ;)

Hey Ryan, it's recommended to not do speed tests while using your download capacity, like when you're buffering videos von UKposts. Maybe try it again when you're not using the internet, or even when your computer is turned off. Also, regarding WhatsApp (and other apps like Telegram): I recommend watching the video "Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!" by Marques Brownlee. It does a really good job at explaining the international differences.

As someone who had worked for Germany's first commercial ISP from 1993, the infrastructure development is truely glacial. And that only became apparent to people and politicians with the Covid crisis when everyone was forced to stay home during lockdown.

with whatsapp belonging to facebook i really thought america would use it too. as a side note, next to whatsapp there is also signal and telegram as reasonably popular messenger apps in germany. also, i remember a billboard advertising the "new super fast 4g mobile data", where when looking at the data volume and the speed, they did advertise 8 seconds of super fast internet each month.

If you have any questions burning on your tongue, we, as the community, would love to answer them. ( I believe we do).Oh and Moin to all Germans and non-German from the Northside of Germany ✌🏻

2:36 that is exactly it ryan. a very precise remote diagonsis/analysis!

Denmark here… I love their channel cause they do really good background check too… About internet speed - I pay for a 100/100 and are closer to 120 each way. In Denmark they aren´t allowed to announce up to xxxx. They have to deliver at least.

Here in the Netherlands, I get 397 MBps download and 38 MBps upload. I am still amazed that Americans don't use WhatsApp. You can call, text, group text, and group call for free no matter which device. It uses WiFi and is cost-free.

The cookie thing is not only related to the EU, it´s also related to the CCPA (California consumer privacy act).

For quite some time a lot of music videos on UKposts were geoblocked in Germany due to distribution rights discussions (gema). Clicking on the Gangnam style music video just opend up a blacked "Video"/picture telling you that due to right issues the music video is not available in your country. So of all the views making gangnam style the most watched music video of all time ten years ago and kept it here for quite a few years, nearly none were from Germany.

In Germany there are some rural places that don't even have phone lines set up, let alone broadband. There's also a few places where time simply stopped and in order to use the internet you'd have to use devices no longer produced nor sold. As for geoblocking that's a major hassle outside the US as a lot of commercial services either don't offer service to europeans over digital rights concerns or inferior region-specific access. Eg some shows on Netflix aren't available in Germany and others are only available with German dubs because some other rights holder has distribution rights for the original english version over here. It's a mess.

I live in a student dorm in Germany where we share 3 rooms+bathroom, and actually only one of the rooms gets the dorm wifi. The Vodafone internet for my phone (contract) doesn't have any access inside the apartment or any neighbouring apartmens, but opening a window and standing next to it helps. Must be the walls. It's in the city, so generally the speed is not bad, but it is very common to be out of internet for a few minutes or even some hours or up to 2 days. So it's more a question of stability than quality from my experience. For houses in villages it depends on which cables are there, can be anything from nothing to good, but internet connection to phones is also difficult sometimes. For example if you are 1 km outside of a city's borders between the fields and such, often no connnection, or while being on the train between two cities, usually no connection at all, so you can spend 2-3 h train rides without internet connection.

Easiest example of geoblocking is on youtube belive it or not "This video is unavailable in your country" it used to happen with musikvideos all the time in the early 2010's

the cookie thing is for you to agree to have them install third party things on your computer that track everything you do. so they get your data and can use/sell it. basically every website has it here and i always make sure to not agree. if there is no option to agree/reject then i can only imagine that they are allowed to install everything they want onto your computer without having to ask you.

"The walls are thicker so the internet is bad." Me thinking: "So that's why americans build with cardboard..." (I had to think about how people punch through their walls. Our walls are made of stone so that'd hurt.)

We use WhatsApp because an SMS costed like 3 cents or something. The providers were too slow to catch up with pricing so people just didn't use SMS for texting and used other apps instead. And the Germans are sparfüchse and WhatsApp came as a semi free service then was bought by Facebook and was established as standard and is completely free. While there are other apps around like telegram and line in Germany people just generally decided to use WhatsApp. And even now an SMS costs like 1,5 cents or something? contracts provide some free smses but even 200 won't be enough for most people and then it will get expensive.

I was on a round trip in Scandinavia a few years ago and I remember having a break from driving in the swedish wilderness, where roads meander through forests and empty lands and the next village is 50km away. I had 4G/LTE reception. Life changing experience for me as a German.

The main reason why Germany is lagging behind with network expansion is probably the different standard of the infrastructure. While in other countries a fiber optic cable is simply nailed to a wooden mast, in Germany the lines are laid invisibly underground. It costs.

With very few exceptions ("those up there are spying on me" guys), everyone uses WhatsApp. From the beginning, it was cross-platform, and normally you don't even ask, if he/she uses WhatsApp. Even iPhone owners use it and don't care about iMessage, as you would have to switch between the apps all the time, depending on whether the other is using an iPhone or Android device.

German here. Yes wifi/broadband can suck a lot depending where you live but the bigger issue is mobile data. I live in a bigger city so I do get 4g. My parents live in a small village/ town and the get 3g with some luck but it's mostly e. When they were in Thailand they had 4g in the middle of nowhere

I should add something about the consent banner/GDPR/DSGVO, as I don't even see it in the comments: This banner appears mainly when you visit a site for the first time - once you consented (or not, besides the mandatory stuff) you won't see this banner anymore, or at least not for quite some time (some sites need updated consent after some time perhaps). So it's not that annoying for everyday use, but can get annoying when you're researching something and visiting lots of sites you don't normally visit. I for example don't think I ever get it for Google & UKposts (and many other sites I'm using frequently), I mostly come across it when I'm using these sites in Incognito for example, where there won't be any cookies or the like stored, so the site doesn't know that you consented to it.

i just noticed that u just started 3 months ago and got consistently solid views from the first video on. very impressive there will be a lot more to talk about but im still kinda interested in what you are gonna do when u run out of topics xD not in a bad way tho

Poland here: everyone uses Facebook messenger for calling or texting but WhatsApp is also known especially when you travel to other European countries. SMS isn’t really used anymore

WhatsApp and similar services are very popular because they are not limited to a specific operating system like iMessage and FaceTime. You can send texts, make phone calls, have video calls using these services. Moreover, they work across country borders (very useful in Europe) and you don‘t have to pay for international calls. But some people in the US have WhatsApp. My brother in Texas has it, and it‘s how we communicate because he is Android and I am iPhone. Without WhatsApp, no phone calls or video calls unless you have a phone plan that includes international calls (I do, but only because I have family in the US).

I'm German and after seeing this Speed-test I had to try. I live in Berlin, the WiFi (glass-fiber) is at 70 download and 26 upload, my mobile is at 25 download and 10 upload. What was actually meant by the bad German-internet is the Mobil market. With in the centre of Berlin with higher buildings the singnal sometimes doesn't reach the ground and as soon as you leave Berlin for Brandenburg (the Bundesland surrounding Berlin) the signal fully drops off, mostly you get no signal at all. "Urban areas"/"the countryside" (villages and stuff) are/is not developed at all an has to be improved tremendously right now.

I'm living in Germany and in my region the "Deutsche Glasfaser" (=German fiber optics) is planning to lay fiber optics in every Town and Village in my region. My current speedtest is: Download: 56.31 Mbps Upload: 10.63Mbps and Ping: 10ms

PassportTwo do so good content. Donnie is really very dedicated to do proper research. The animations are also gorgeous. Definetly one of the best channels for Germany related content. I'm happy you subscribed.

21:14 the only thing one needs to rise up against is not to let them willfully steal your information and sell it but against google putting the content of websites on google already and therefore stealing the ad revenue from these websites. nothing of what you find so convenient is actually something thats considered a good thing by many. the majority who still does think of it as a good thing quickly changes their mind once youve told them what that is actually about

Hey Ryan do your broadband test wired to your router, to get the correct results, e.g. i use powerlan for distribution in the house cause i don`t want to slit the walls, there is a significant drop over Wlan and Powerlan compared to being directly wired to the router. and take care that you are the only user during test period. usually there is a 10% technical overhead . so divide your result by 0.9 to get your brutto values of bandwidth

According to the latest broadband coverage report for the Canary Islands 2020, the Canary Islands enjoy excellent connectivity and access to fast networks (up to 1 Gbps) is guaranteed in the main urban centers and towns. In the Canary Islands, broadband connectivity of more than 100 megabytes reaches 97.8% of public centers

Tbh in most german schools a Overhead projector is the most modern piece of equipment

I am German and I have to say that the Internet in Germany is not slow at all in many places. In my home village, which is not close to a city, we have a download of 250 mbs without a fiber optic connection 😂

I love my local provider for power & water. When they build new houses here, they hook up to their own fiber network and they have a modular rate, where you pay 20 € / month for telephone plus 50 mb down but they have very nice rates, for example we're paying 45 € for 300 mb down / 150 mb up with a static ip

1 Gb/s up and download is very common in Switzerland. You can even go to the mountains and still have mostly a very good connection.

the reason why we dont use instant messages is that not everybody has an iphone, you need one app that is used by android and apple phones. whatsapp is pretty bad these days but was groundbreaking back in the 2010s. SMS are really outdated and limited, you cant send proper images or videos with that and is also pretty expensive.

You basically have a internet connection everywhere in germany. It can get slow as shit though. My parents still have 16Mbit/s because they live in a small village. I lived in quite a few cities all over germany by now and my connection was never slower than 100Mbit/s. BTW I always find it quite amusing that the US is such a technological country but still uses SMS for texting haha But thats probably due to the fact that SMS isn't always free here (mostly but not always)

a few years ago they managed to hit a fiber optic cable during construction work in the neighboring town. Three towns were without a network for almost 2 days

2:04 - you can experience geo blocked websites pretty easily if you live in the US. Just try to use the VoD-Service of the 1. german television (ARD). You will be blocked for many shows because you try to stream it from outside of germany. It´s just a licencing thing.

As a Swede I am always shocked that almost every country uses WhatsApp. It is barely used in Sweden, since most use Facebook Messenger or Snapchat instead.

Why Whatsapp? Because most germans have android phones - so noe iMessage. Whatsapp provides the same feature crossdevice

I am from germany, and while i have pretty good WiFi now, a few years back, i couldn't even watch UKposts videos above 360p without lags, but it really depends on how much you're spending, and most people i know have pretty good internet

Question: how about the costs for internet access in the USA? In our household we have a combination of internet/telephone (landline)*/television for a fixed price of just under €50/~49.00 USD per month. (fiber connection) *The price can change if you make calls outside of Germany or have used up the monthly free minutes for calls outside of your region/your telephone network. Depending on the provider, there are additional options for using mobile phones.

22:35 It's because the texting is not free here and never was. One SMS is only a couple characters (140 or so), using diacritics and emojis takes lot of that space, leaving you with even less characters, or they will bill you for multiple SMS, even if it's just one. I text only when it's something important or urgent and/or the other person doesn't have any texting app or internet connection - and lot of people doesn't, especially older people. 🙂

We use wattsapp because imessage and facetime is specific for iPhone wich is used by only less than 30% of all smartphone users in germany as well as it is in the rest of the world. The US is the only country where eveeyone uses ios

I wanna give some information about the what's app comment you gave (22:40) I live in Belgium and we use it alot too. The reason is why we use it over texting. When you don't have a subscription, you use paid cards. Prices can very due to the amount you get. What'sApp is mostly included separate like Facebook and/or youtube (i think snapchat is included as well). It doesn't take data from your card or subscription and you don't have to pay for it. Just simple as that. It's free, it's easy and user friendly plus not linked any platform like android or apple or windows. Texting costs money and drains the budget really quickly, so would u use something that is free and no data loss or would you use something you pay for ?

Just did a speedtest. Here in central Poland I get DL 153Mbps and UL 25Mbps, however 8ms of ping. It is the lowest possible plan at my tiny local ISP and it costs $10 a month without any data limit and with close to zero downtime or instabilities. The highest they offer for homes is a 940/60 Mbps connection and it is $18 a month. They also offer a symmetrical 1000/1000 Mbps for businesses. I remember when just as en experiment I played online on NA servers from the East Coast and I had lower latency then some people within the US playing on US servers.

In switzerland the internet is really really good!!

WhatsApp was there at the right time when instant messaging became a thing and regular texting was like 19ct per message.

8:10 I live in Italy and I have a radioDSL operator with goes 30Mb in download and 3 in upload. Although I known some people with fiber and they have 100+Mb internet connection. Also in my town 1000Mb fiber optic was brought last year by a local operator, and now all the major national operator are bringing they fiber with fibercoop, while since 2016 we have 100Mb FTTCab (the fiber optic mixed with old copper cables). In generally in Italy the connection gap is between cities, were now you can find 2.5Gb connections, and rular Ares were you can be lucky and already have fiber optic or radioDSL operator who arrive at 100Mb, or shitty 7Mb ADSL reeling on decades old copper cables

I actually love what's app and use it multiple times a week to chat with my family in Germany and France for free !

I hate that in my country streaming services except Netflix and Hbo are blocked. Like, you are telling me I am willing to pay you to see the content but you won’t except my euros...why? Can someone smart explain it. I know I can get Vpn but I wonder why they block it in the first place. So I go to Pirate bay.

WhatsApp is in every mobile phone accross Europe. Video call for free, etcetera. Again, usa is really messed up. And i pay 5 euro month for my mobile phone plane.

1:06 Wi-Fi signals can of course be transmitted much better through a wooden house than through houses with solid walls, which is why we often need repeaters, depending on how big our house or apartment is. But you can get 1000 Mbit download and 50 Mbit upload for 40 € here in Germany, or I currently have 250 Mbit download and 50 Mbit upload for 25 €.

I live in a small town in Germany with a population of roughly 2500. A few year ago, the most we could get was 16 mBit, and even that was "fast" compared to the 1-2 mBit previously available. We now have fiber to the home (FTTH) for every house with1gBit up/download.

We use Whatsapp bc the most people have an Android Cell phone instead of an Iphone, Apple is overpriced old tech with nice looking software.

The cookie pop ups are not required by law. European law simply says, if any company takes any data from their visitors (and cookies are a tool to collect data) they have to get permission by those, whose data their are collecting. The companies absolutely make it as horrible as possible, so that everybody just decides to click that one button, that frees you from more pop ups. It is like organized crime.

Im currently living in Germany for a pretty long time, almost 9 years to be exact. And from my expirience i can say, that many many things here are very old and upgrading to new ones is very expensive! "And if the old ones do still work, why should I buy new ones even though it will increase the efficiency and my quality of life and also save me alot of nerve and time in future?" This is the mentality many Germans are living with right now, the consumer Market is mostly based on personal things and not on social ones. Very good example are phones and mobile network vs network-infrastructure. Many Germans buy new phones and pay monthly for their prepaid accounts and other premium stuff. Alot of people tend to spend alot of money on their mobile network connection to be as fast as possible 4G is standard 5G is what many people want. The Faster The Better! BUT ! Our network infrastructure is very old and very VERY outdated. The Routing of the cables is inefficient + some areas arent even accessable directly thus resulting in a D-Tour of data transfering. But the biggest problem are the cables themselfes, they are as old as they were laid, cable replacements are very rare but even the newer ones are still old technology - metallic wiring to be exact. "Optical wires? Nonono - thats not possible, too expensive and too much work to do!" We don't have optical wiring here, atleast my region. We changed our provider twice and we asked each of them if we can get a new wifi router and an optical wire connection, yet all of them laughed in our face saying how dumb and expensive this impossible idea is... Well guess what, Khazakhstan, - a country that is considered as a 3rd world country, has optical wiring in the majority of its cities since about a decade... I started noticing posters about "Digitalization is the future" with optical wire pictures on them yet nobody really talks about this stuff in politics - right now we are focused on 1st shutting down the cleanest energy sources aka nuclear powerplants, because every one fears the "catastrophic disaster of Fukushima" 2nd Covid - yes its still a topic here and many "experts" are talking about a "very possible comeback wave of covid" in the autumn/winter. 3rd Ah yes, support Ukraine by rejecting gas import from Russia, meanwhile its October -> winter is near, the majority of houses are heated BY the GAS which we DON'T HAVE -> Gas and Gasoline imports have been reduced thus the remaining supplies are getting expensive + other imports are total D-tours thus also getting expensive -> everything is now 3 times more expensive + wages and the income of people remained the same or suffered from the pandemic -> all of this results in inflation of the € buy-ability - the € buy-ability is sinking here in Germany very very fast. And the daily news and politics are feeding people with propaganda just to keep everyone below the radar. The missinformation is very obvious, especially when you compare the news from different sources, but people still buy it and thus dont notice it. Watching the american news, comparing them to the french ones then to german ones then to russian ones then to brittish ones - its all a big mess. And this mess is slowing everything down.

In France, suburb of Lyon, village of 3k inhabitants, 0.94ms latency, 923Mbps DOWN, 493Mpbs UP. Internet is very good here in France, and with good prices, and I'm so grateful for that.

WhatsApp is a messenger service in the internet. Do you know ... the internet ...

I just did a speed test too and got 120mb download and like 6mb upload, I'm in Dortmund Germany. That being said, I know many people in more rural Germany who do struggle a lot, although they pay for the exact same thing as me. And also don't expect to have mobile internet connection in the countrysite at all

I love the "Dream Big" in the background.

I live on the outskirts of hamburg and here, it is really good. hamburg and Norderstedt, where I live, especially have really invested into fibre optics. But when i visit my Grandma by train near lünebur, about a two hour train ride, as soon as we leave Hamburg, the Internet starts getting _real_ patchy and sometimes just drops of all together

In home WiFi problems are honestly a user side problem not a provider problem router placement is most often the easiest fix and you can use different solutions like repeaters to get a better signal. A bigger problem is old in house wiring its not uncommon that you live right along a fiber optic line but the speed you get is complete trash because your home was build 80+ yeas ago and has very basic copper lines for normal phone access throtling speed harshly.

Tokelau is a small island in the pacific that gives out free domains, which is why it’s so popular

I live in small town in Czech Republic and I have connected three different fibre optics endpoints from different providers to my house, now I'm on 1000/500 fibre from T-Mobile for 420CZK(17,78€ or $19,04)/month

That cookie banner came so often because he used a private tab and probably used a new one for each search in the video. Usually you just click it once and then it never comes back for that site.

Living in quite a rural area of Germany, and my download speed is 200 Mbps, upload 8.7 Mbps. That's a middle price offer, could pay more, then it would be 1000 Mpbs download speed and up to 50 Mbps upload. Guess it really depends on how much you want to pay.

I also had 2MB Download in Germany. That was 2007.

You can send photos, videos, geolocation, etc, you can create groups and it is very easy to use

I'm in Kent, UK, 313 mbps download, 107 mbps upload. I often visit Germany on holiday, never had a problem getting decent service, really depends on where you are.

For me an an Austrian (living in the country next to Germany) it is often terrific that Germany has such a bad internet in comparision to us Austrians. I personally live in a rural village and get via mobile internet connection an average download speed of about 150MBit/s - Upload average 50MBit/s. And as i mentioned I do not have a wired Internet at all - its ohny via mobile network.

I used to live at the edge of a city of around 100k citizens. The internet speed I could have gotten was 384kbit/s down, 64 up. Yes, kilobits, back when 16 or 25Mbit/s were the norm. I moved to another part of the city, I can only assume they fixed this since. I also know a village of ~1k which got "broadband" just recently, subsidised by the state government. Deutsche Telekom as the former monopolist is required to provide phone access (which might mean GSM coverage outside the house), anything on top is provided based on ROI.

Tokelau and Tonga are archipelagos in the pacific. They are relatively small states whose economy consist to a significant part of selling domains.

Fwiw I'm getting 1Gbit/s for ~50€ p.m. in a pretty average German city. At least in my area bad coverage is mostly found in rural regions. Steel reinforced concrete being bad for WiFi is definitely a thing, but nothing that can't be easily remedied by proper AP placement.