&gt;if not the most technically advanced country in Europe that people claim to have very high-quality living standards<p>Germany shares it&#x27;s place with the UK at the bottom of high speed internet availability in Europe (I actually live in the UK but where i live OpenReach (I&#x27;m leasing 2 OR truncated lines through IDnet), Virgin Cable are available at their max speeds and very soon 1gig from hyperoptic will too).<p>FTTC is available throughout most of the UK <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.thinkbroadband.com&#x2F;#!lat=50.50176004214942&amp;lng=6.73187367968751&amp;zoom=6&amp;type=terrain&amp;tbb-fibre-speeds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.thinkbroadband.com&#x2F;#!lat=50.50176004214942&amp;lng=6...</a> many other EU countries are far far better off than the UK and apparently Germany.<p>You only need between 5 and 10mbit upload to being able to stream 1080p, neflix streams 1080p between 4000-5300 kbits based on the profile, Plex has similar profiles depending on if you want to use transcoding or not.<p>&gt;You can see even over here in Europe 40Mbits upload is not quite common if almost 85% of the population don&#x27;t have access to it and 5% couldn&#x27;t even afford it if they wanted to.<p>That&#x27;s not exactly the case <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ispreview.co.uk&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;mixed-uk-results-in-eu-study-of-broadband-speeds-price-and-coverage.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ispreview.co.uk&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;mixed-uk-result...</a> (these are peak figures so they account for network congestion) most of european FTTx subscribers is getting quite close to 40mbit in some countries, but as I said even 10mbit upload should be sufficient for this purpose.
Sure I don&#x27;t expect people living in remote areas with DSL to be able to stream 1080p but that&#x27;s not really a surprise.<p>As for the cost, what do the cost have anything to do with it? people who live on unemployment cannot afford many other things, and if you are not employed and living on social benefits perhaps deploying your own streaming service from home should not be on top of your priorities as the computing power, storage, and multiple client devices that are required for such service will or should be out of your reach in the first place.