This is a national disgrace! internet speeds in USA

Current speeds are adequate for just about everything. Im not going to complain about needing to wait 15 minuted to download a pirated hd movie. Streaming 4k, if it ever takes off, i think would be the next reason to widen our tubes.
 
I wish theyd do something about that pesky speed of light limitation so i could get better ping time to game servers though.
 
green73 said:
UK. 50mb/s. That's on the slow side for Europe.
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Interesting, thanks. The UK does seem to have a good internet situation, based on my limited experience there.

The US is just not horrible, though, internet-wise. I would not characterize it as horrible. I would say it's very good.

Statistics like this don't give a whole picture, but here are some:

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

The UK averages 29, US and Germany 27... it's all about the same.

I don't doubt that things would be much better with a free market in internet. However, relatively speaking, the US does have a freer internet market than many of these countries with supposedly faster internet. It works pretty well for us. The UK, Germany, the US, these are the places where things actually work. I'm sure Luctor loves Spain, and Spain does seem to have fast internet for some reason (probably big gov't spending on the project), but consider this: can you even get land-based internet, or even electricity, out in the Catalonian countryside? No, you cannot. Now look at the geographies involved. Catalonia is not even that far from civilization! Contrast that to Wyoming. What if Spain had a Wyoming, 500 miles away from anything and everything? Would it have 7 megs of average internet speed? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

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So basically, we're just fine. Let the market work. To the extent there are barriers and impediments to the market, tear them down, of course. It would only make things better -- either increasing internet quality, or freeing up wasted resources to do more important and valuable things. That last possibility is not insignificant. Internet is not the only valuable thing to people; there's always tradeoffs. Look at Romania on that map there, clocking in at 55 megs. How many windows did they have to break to get that? Do you really think the first priority of the poor people of Romania -- per capita income, $8k per year -- was to build a cutting edge internet infrastructure? Next up: a Maglev train network! These things are distortions. They are a curse to the countries whose politicians have done them, not a boon. They are wealth destruction in action.
 
brandon said:
I wish theyd do something about that pesky speed of light limitation so i could get better ping time to game servers though.
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Well don't let the government at it. Government would legislate the speed of light down to the speed of sound and set up radar traps to enforce it.
 
green73 said:
:rolleyes: @ the speeds of socialist state schools.
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Yep.



UT’s Bandwidth Hits 100 Gigabits Per Second Milestone
JUNE 20, 2014

For some, getting on the Internet can be a blast.

Now, thanks to the Bandwidth for Leadership in Advancing Science and Technology project—known as BLAST—it can also be faster for computer users at UT.

A lot faster.

“This is quite an accomplishment, for both UT and for the researchers who use the network,” said Victor Hazlewood, chief operating officer at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and the National Science Foundation’s principal investigator on BLAST. “This really positions UT well to continue to be at the forefront of innovation.”

The upgrade, completed May 25, is a combined effort between JICS and UT’s Office of Information Technology and makes it possible for UT users to make use of Internet speeds up to 100 gigabits per second.

For comparison, most research institutions have Internet speeds around 10 gigabits per second.

“UT’s Top 25 initiatives included improvements in infrastructure and expansion of services for research,” said Larry Jennings, associate chief information officer in OIT and BLAST co-principal investigator. “BLAST is an initiative that demonstrates the campus’ commitment to that overarching goal.”

In proposing the plan last year, planners said that the aim was to “improve science and engineering researcher productivity and facilitate scientific discovery.”

Achieving that goal would have other beneficial effects, too, such as the ability to move large amounts of data, whose sheer size would have made the task prohibitively slow before the upgrade.

“The BLAST project is another step toward UT’s goal of being a top university,” said Hazlewood. “UT is the first member of the Southern Crossroads research and education consortium to upgrade its wide area network connection to 100 gigabits per second.”

The BLAST project was completed in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which provided the long-haul fiber optic infrastructure supporting such speeds.

All told, the project cost $4.5 million, with funding coming from the National Science Foundation, UT, and ORNL.
 


I live secluded in a very rural backward corner of the country.. And have their cheapest DSL. They do offer higher speeds (at higher cost)
I can still stream video (most of the time) and play WoW.
 
I'm in the center of Seoul. My home desktop computer bandwidth test (speedtest.net) is 94Mbps down and 95Mbps up.

Using my 5ghz home WIFI connection, My Galaxy S4 gets 18Mbps through my VPN subscription to another country in Asia.
 
Here is what I have at the moment. Even though I pay for the fastest plan and am in that dark green zone in the op's post. Of course, it's 9:30 too so...don't know if that matters much or not.

I've tested my connection before and had twice as good results. Plus I have a lot of things running at the moment too. I'm not really an internet wizard so I don't know.

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Ty OP. This is clear evidence that free markets simply don't work.

I want others to pay more taxes, right now, and fix this fucked up capitalist garbage.

Don't forget to tip your waitress.
 
Comcast, verizon. I guess that's one too many to be considered Soviet.
 
helmuth_hubener said:
Interesting, thanks. The UK does seem to have a good internet situation, based on my limited experience there.

The US is just not horrible, though, internet-wise. I would not characterize it as horrible. I would say it's very good.

Statistics like this don't give a whole picture, but here are some:

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

The UK averages 29, US and Germany 27... it's all about the same.

I don't doubt that things would be much better with a free market in internet. However, relatively speaking, the US does have a freer internet market than many of these countries with supposedly faster internet. It works pretty well for us. The UK, Germany, the US, these are the places where things actually work. I'm sure Luctor loves Spain, and Spain does seem to have fast internet for some reason (probably big gov't spending on the project), but consider this: can you even get land-based internet, or even electricity, out in the Catalonian countryside? No, you cannot. Now look at the geographies involved. Catalonia is not even that far from civilization! Contrast that to Wyoming. What if Spain had a Wyoming, 500 miles away from anything and everything? Would it have 7 megs of average internet speed? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Spain_US_Size.png


So basically, we're just fine. Let the market work. To the extent there are barriers and impediments to the market, tear them down, of course. It would only make things better -- either increasing internet quality, or freeing up wasted resources to do more important and valuable things. That last possibility is not insignificant. Internet is not the only valuable thing to people; there's always tradeoffs. Look at Romania on that map there, clocking in at 55 megs. How many windows did they have to break to get that? Do you really think the first priority of the poor people of Romania -- per capita income, $8k per year -- was to build a cutting edge internet infrastructure? Next up: a Maglev train network! These things are distortions. They are a curse to the countries whose politicians have done them, not a boon. They are wealth destruction in action.
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Good points, and I agree. It's just make my blood boil, the cronyism that limits choice and speeds.
 
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