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Blake
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 Posted: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:11:47 Post Subject: U.S. Still Has Weak Broadband |
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CNN Money has released the top 20 countries providing top quality broadband service in 2009 and the U.S. is still lacking, even falling behind Lithuania?! On a positive note we did manage to rank better then Estonia.
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Doctor Feelgood
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I was on another site this week where people were comparing their speed tests results... It was crazy! Around here my 30/15 speeds are pretty good, but people from Australia were posting speeds in the 80-110 Mbps download range... And I see they are only 13th on your list!  Not sure what else counts towards quality, but we definitely lack widespread speed. |
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Blake
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Those speeds would be awesome! At work using Speedtest.net I get a whooping .88Mbs down and 1.05Mbs up 
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acruxksa
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I'll just point out that with the exception of the US, Australia and Canada, every country on that list is about the size of one or two states in the US.
heck some of them could be covered with about 4 wimax towers or a couple hundred miles of fiber 
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Wait a minute... I was gone a few days and HackaX0rus snuck back in! 
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And acruxksa... You're right. Those little nugget countries have it easy. Like covering a large US city for some of them. |
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mrweasel
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Dude, my server room is bigger than Luxembourg. That doesn't count.
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(TSC)Bender
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| Hellfire wrote: | I'd be curious to see how many of those countries are "pay for time used" service compared to "pay once, use all you want" type of service.
Most here in the US is the "pay once, use all you want" type of services. I heard a while back that many countries you pay a high price for the time you use on broadband. |
That would be pretty interesting to see. A lot of ISPs are moving toward the limited bandwidth option as well to decrease load. I'm lucky i'm eternally low on HD space or i'd be eating up Comcast's 250gb/month limit like candy. |
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HackaX0rus
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| Jason wrote: | Wait a minute... I was gone a few days and HackaX0rus snuck back in!
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Yeah I forgot how to use the internets for a while.
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