In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local "green cabinet" which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.
My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.
My parents' place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the "up to" rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+
I think you have to be kinda rural before you're much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn't an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it's not typical)
Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.
I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn't bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too
I mean.... You can still technically use Eclipse if you're a masochist.... Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense though
If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor
If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn't a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler
I mean, this is more the BBC who have a penchant for broadcasting nutjob views in the name of impartiality
Ground news is an aggregator that informs you of what kind of slant you'll get for any given outlet, it definitely doesn't publish any of its own news. The point of it is to make sure you are aware of how outlets you don't read are reporting on a given issue. Frankly the main use of that for me is knowing what nonsense my right-wing relatives are gonna otherwise blindside me with at family gatherings.
Now you can, however, definitely bemoan the fact that one of their bias data sources is notoriously biased itself though (Media bias fact check, which equates respectable centrist paper, the guardian, as equivalent in factuality to Breitbart, the literal nazi outlet).
Ground news just kinda says "here's what everyone is saying about a given topic", not that all views are equal.
In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local "green cabinet" which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.
My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.
My parents' place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the "up to" rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+
I think you have to be kinda rural before you're much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn't an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it's not typical)