Filling in solvable groups and in lattices in semisimple groups

We prove that the filling order is quadratic for a large class of solvable groups and asymptotically quadratic for all -rank one lattices in semisimple groups of -rank at least 3. As a byproduct of auxiliary results we give a shorter proof of the theorem on the nondistorsion of horospheres providing also an estimate of a nondistorsion constant.