This is a national disgrace! internet speeds in USA

[Nicklibergamer34]

This is a national disgrace! Many developed countries have faster internet connections than we do. Are Americans unwilling to invest in better infrastructure for the internet? When will America enter the 21st Century? Seriously this is ridiculous!

 

[specsaregood]

not getting your porn fast enough? Most of those developed countries don't have the sheer landmass either. I suspect that map would look differently if they limited it to urban/suburban areas.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Have you ever actually been to these other developed countries? If you had, and if you had used or tried to use the internet there -- that is, if you actually knew something about the topic -- you might have a very different view of the topic. The internet situation in the US is very good, in my opinion. Quite nice.

 

[juleswin]

Why anyone needs a residential internet connection speed of more than 2 Mbps is beyond me. I currently have a 3 mbps internet connect service which actually delivers 1.5 ish mbps and I do everything I want to do just fine, I stream netflix with virtually no interruptions, play online PS3 games with the most problem being a few dips in frame rate and on top of that I am sharing my connection with 2 other apts in my complex who again are doing just fine with the speed.

But then again, its not the nation's problem to deal with internet connection speed and also, I shouldn't be responding to you cos you are a troll

 

[TonySutton]

Google has a solution

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

I just measured 50.4Mbps here. Pretty decent I think.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

From the title I thought this thread was about sir golfs alot....

-t

 

[oyarde]

America will no longer be a national disgrace when the Fed govt starts doing about nothing as it should .

 

[green73]

US internet is terrible and it's largely due to fascistic laws that protect the big providers.

 

[jllundqu]

This is a national disgrace! Many developed countries have faster internet connections than we do. Are Americans unwilling to invest in better infrastructure for the internet? When will America enter the 21st Century? Seriously this is ridiculous!

Are you proposing the government (the same government that spies on everything you do) take up the task of building a massive internet cyberstructure to the tune of billions of wasted dollars?

How is this preferable to organic growth in business whereby the internet will become more accessible without force and taxation?

Oh I forgot.... trolls don't answer their own posts...

 

[helmuth_hubener]

US internet is terrible and it's largely due to fascistic laws that protect the big providers.

Why do you think that? Where else have you experienced the Internet, under what circumstances, and where in the US have you experienced the Internet?

 

[juleswin]

US internet is terrible and it's largely due to fascistic laws that protect the big providers.

www.speedtest.net

I would like to know what you consider to be terrible internet speed.



That is what I get on campus. You can literally download a lifetime worth of whatever it is people download in 2mins . Yes, I know its anecdotal evidence but the speed is available to anyone who is willing to pay for it.

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

www.speedtest.net

I would like to know what you consider to be terrible internet speed.

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That is what I get on campus. You can literally download a lifetime worth of whatever it is people download in 2mins . Yes, I know its anecdotal evidence but the speed is available to anyone who is willing to pay for it.

I'm paying 30EUR/40$/month for half that speed and 40 channels of cable TV.

 

[FunkBuddha]

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That is what I get on campus. You can literally download a lifetime worth of whatever it is people download in 2mins . Yes, I know its anecdotal evidence but the speed is available to anyone who is willing to pay for it.

You need better Internetz.

 

[juleswin]

You need better Internetz.

So you get to open Google search 0.0000001 sec faster than me? Whoopty doo

But I have to ask, who(residential users) really needs more than 10 mbps? I mean what are you doing on the internet that you need such a break neck internet speed?

 

[green73]

19 State Laws That Stop Your City From Installing Blazing Fast Internet


According to FCC data released in 2013, over 39 million Americans have less than 2 wired broadband providers they can get broadband service from.

Our team at Broadband Now has been obsessed with this fact because without a competitive market, companies have little incentive to treat their customers well or improve their infrastructure leading to poor customer service [1] and questionable business practices.[2]

Lucky for some consumers, municipalities across the country have been stepping into help underserved populations get access to better more competitive broadband service.

While this introduction of new competition sounds like a win for consumers, incumbent providers have been leveraging their lobbying power at the state level to limit what municipalities can and can’t do.

cont.
http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks/

 

[green73]

Why do you think that? Where else have you experienced the Internet, under what circumstances, and where in the US have you experienced the Internet?

UK. 50mb/s. That's on the slow side for Europe.

 

[green73]

@ the speeds of socialist state schools.

 

[FunkBuddha]

I have a 4G connection to the internet with a 20GB cap. It's my only option because I live out in the country. I live out in the country because I'd rather be doing shit outside without some busy body bitching about whatever crazy shit I might do. Last night my boys and I pissed in an outdoor fish tank we're trying to cycle. The night before that I squeezed off about 100 rounds of 7.62.

Fat internet pipes are for fat folks and their fat families to sit around on their fat asses and watch Netflix on all of their fat TVs. How's that for a generalization?

 

[CPUd]

So you get to open Google search 0.0000001 sec faster than me? Whoopty doo

But I have to ask, who(residential users) really needs more than 10 mbps? I mean what are you doing on the internet that you need such a break neck internet speed?

People running remote desktops and cloud apps are gonna need more and more as these services become more mainstream. Think of something like video editing on a remote machine, where the response is faster than what it would be if you were doing it on your own machine.