WTF is wrong with internet speeds in the USA????

fvaldes

fvaldes

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:xomunch:im a Minsk right now and blown away by 90megabits.second they have here.

It is not even the fastest they have! and in Spain they have 100mb/s and I heard Portugal had a 1Gigbyte/s option... and Japan goes even faster.

oh, and all these at the same price we pay for a shitty 3 to 6megabte/second.

Why?? I am guessing then their cable TV business would suffer since youd be able to download a HD movie in 1 minute. Also Piracy could increase?
 


fvaldes said:
:xomunch:im a Minsk right now and blown away by 90megabits.second they have here.

It is not even the fastest they have! and in Spain they have 100mb/s and I heard Portugal had a 1Gigbyte/s option... and Japan goes even faster.

oh, and all these at the same price we pay for a shitty 3 to 6megabte/second.

Why?? I am guessing then their cable TV business would suffer since youd be able to download a HD movie in 1 minute. Also Piracy could increase?
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Here's what someone said back in 2007 about your question.

World's Fastest Internet

pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"Ministers have earmarked £12 million for the Shoreditch project..."

This is what I find most amazing about the article. That's $21mil U.S.

If we asked for this in the U.S., first we would be told that it was technologically impossible. Then they would tell us it would cost $300-400 million. They would sell that figure to congress, who would believe it. The telcos/cablecos would get billions in tax abatements to build the infrastructure, and there would be no oversight. Finally, we would end up with a service that's 1000 times slower and costs us 5 times as much as it should. We would ask, "Hey, where's our uber high-speed internet access?" and the telcos would say that it was technologically impossible. Rinse and repeat.

That's how it would go.

Oh, wait. That's how it's already happened!

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Here's a few links to world internet speeds:

Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future - washingtonpost.com

Top 30 countries ranked by fastest internet speeds | Jamaipanese

World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec - Times Online
 
The communications industry in the US has always been anti-competitive. Even with all the ISPs we have, the bandwidth pricing is ultimately decided by the Tier 1 backbone providers like AT&T, Qwest, WorldComm, etc. The costs of laying down fiber is so prohibitive that small or medium companies have no chance to compete...they can only lease existing infrastructure from these companies. That expense also deters the big guys from improving their networks.

Now Japan and most European contries are much smaller compared to the USA and updating its comm lines has a lower relative cost. Higher population densities mean more customers per square mile, which means upgrading networks to the latest tech is feasible from a business perspective.

I'm sure there are other issues but in my mind those are the top reason the USA is still paying out the ass for bandwidth...even availability in the USA isn't so good, many people don't have something like FiOS as an option!
 
Taiwan sucks also. They have fiber to the curb, fiber all over the island, but they can't figure out DNS, routing and load balancing. They sell you an 8M line, but your lucky if you get a quarter of that. The people that got suckered into the fiber connections have less throughput than the old DSL lines (figure that one out!). It's not an infrastructure issue. The reliability has been good though, didn't lose connection once even with this last typhoon.

Don't need to waste time webcamming with hot Asian bitches though!
 
Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).
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Ministers have earmarked £12 million for the Shoreditch project as the centrepiece of its New Deal for the Communities. It is designed to connect residents of deprived estates with a range of internet services and community television channels.
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What the fuck? They're just gonna use it to watch porn all day!

I mean I would too, but at least I could get some productive use out of it too.
 
Other countries have faster WAN speeds because they're geographically smaller. The US can't reasonably push fiber to every residential home because the costs of repeater equipment becomes prohibitively expensive.

And no, Japan does not have 1 Gbps+ residential Internet. If you're in a city, you get around 100 Mbps. If you're out in the country, it's about where ours is at.
 
customs said:
In Russia (West Siberia), I have 3mbps up/down for $12/mo., and in my opinion it's great, because 2 years ago we had 512kbps max and for $80
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im in Minsk visiting and have almost 100mbs/s...... thats insane... i downloaded a movie in under 1 minute.
 
I get a 2mbps line with only 10GB/download limit (yeah it sucks) from national internet provider (India) at around $50/month & obviously every month I cross my download limits and end up paying around $100/month on internet bills.
 
its moreso a geographical issue in the US. I live in a major city though (chicago) so i get 100mbit for $20 a month however.
 
well idk what to say...apparently companies didn't wanna invest in fiber (till now) and those shitty copper wires can only handle so much bandwidth.

Also, no real competition in most areas made internet companies smug...

there was a nice article in NyTimes about how American companies charge more for less speed as compared to internet in Japan, South Korea, Europe.
 
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