All is not lost.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/04/01/lebanon-internet-speed-up-soon/#

So, you should be moving up from basically last soon.

Given that many of their people are still nomadic and their country is in the middle of fricking nowhere by any standard (when your neighbors are Siberia, Sinkiang, and Inner Mongolia), they got on the ball with wireless internet earlier than most, because there was little real point in laying a lot of lines for such a low population density, and less so when those few people moved about a lot

You picked news from an unfortunate day of the year...

Sure it's april first but I mean... that would be about the lamest prank ever.  There is also a 2009 Article that talks about the plans.

Just taking a while to implement, which makes sense... considering.

Its hard for your country to build up an infrastructure when the dicatorship to your south bombs your country regularly.

#64!!!!!

WTF Canada.

Nicaragua can suck on that, I spose?

Internet in Australia sucks balls.

>Playing WoW

> Housemate says he's going to bed, takes his laptop

> Sustained very high latency for the next 15 minutes

> :'( mfw

It's the same reason the US and Australias internet is so slow.

Canada is huge.  Huge countries with areas that are remote will lag behind because it isn't cost effective to build infrastructure in those places.

Low blow, this isn't a thread about Israel.

Pfft... what's the UK's excuse?