I live in Indonesia, don’t ask me about internet connection quality. It’s really sad, pretty embarassing to share the speedtest result.

I just live a few kilometers from the capital, btw.

“do you think a fast connection is needed for software development?”

For these needs:

1. git pulling and pushing
2. basic ssh, curl and other terminal things
3. visiting stackoverflow

i think it’s already good. Having a good stable connection is already a heaven for me.

I feel your pain. I live in a small town here in brazil. Besides the problem with the internet connection there is the problem with the devaluation of our currency which limits very much the ammount of paid material we can get each month.

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I love my service, ~$60/month, I have a fairly low service (they have gigabit at most and tiers in between) but my router is ancient so I’ve not seen a point to get higher. It is fast, unmetered, and unlimited (normally slows down after 300gigs/month but if you pay the extra $10, like I do, you get unlimited, and I often use well more than 300gigs/month because of working on my servers and lots of VNC over SSH), plus since where I live sits straight on an L3 backbone my latencies are utterly fantastic! I’m always the one who ends up hosting game servers between friends. ^.^ But yep, my latency fluctuates depending on the time of day between 4ms to 12ms to google, latency is one of the big things I look for because of my ssh/vnc work.

This is about the only perk of living in the desert. ^.^

Saw several Indonesian tests here and can’t help but cringe. I guess that’s what you get when your former Minister of Communication and Informatics asked (quite rethorically, sadly) “What would you even need fast internet for?” I don’t know about the current minister, but there hasn’t been any significant change AFAIK.

I don’t even want to share my test since I believe it will not be that much different than the ones already posted (not to mention the ISP I use–one of the bigger ones–is so unreliable lately).

I began learning how to develop by teaching myself how to build an iPhone app in Objective-C while I was deployed to Afghanistan. The Air Force had a stupid rule where you can not share notes with other Airmen for career tests. I was a JTAC and was required to take a proficiency test once every 6-18 months. People would make a thousand flash cards to study (you had a two week notice) and not be able to share or even use the same exact flash cards you made for your last proficiency test.

The Air Force looks at software differently and would allow people to stop making flash cards. So during one of my deployments to Afghanistan I paid $180 per month for a 256kbs connection (not including peak times, otherwise it was <100kbs) and taught myself how to build this app. It took me 7 months, but I finished it. I really only needed stack overflow and at night I would download a video to watch the next day. Typing it out sounds like it would be very frustrating, but you get used to it and a lot of time was spent thinking in front of an editor.