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- Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -1/+50When I read the headline, I figured the article would be about the abysmal speed of USA broadband. I have a friend who lives in BC. He pays $29.99 Canadian for 100Mb fiber. ***** fiber? I pay nearly twice that for this loust 3 meg *****.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11 i want lifetime wireless 10mb for $10
- championchap, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Seriously, quit your bitching.. Im on a meg download and I pay about the same as you.
Living in the countryside is lovely, but the connections suck. I have a friend who's still on bloody Dial Up for Christ sake. Broadband is unavailable in his area. - ibeetle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Looks like someone did not read his EULA. That $39.99 is only for the first 12 months. After that say hello to $59.99.
- fishymann, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Australia is way behind the rest of the world. I get DSL 512k/128k for $49.95 a month (after $10 discount for bundle with landline) with 7gb of downloads, plus 14gb of off-peak bonus downloads from midnight to noon.
- psykiv, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10OMG. Wordpress. 53 Diggs, Front Page, and still not down?
The digg gods must be watching over it. - zykt0n, on 10/10/2007, -1/+632mb DSL here in London, £29.99. uncapped.
- AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Verizon Rocks. I got the 20down/5up plan for 39.99 a month and will am hooked.
- Tivor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5South Korea is the place to go for internet access, where fiber optics access is becoming a norm and wireless access is almost everywhere.
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yet another person who doesn't know what they are talking about. It has everything to do with Wordpress. It all has to do with bandwidth buddy. A site with Wordpress is going to go down 10x faster than a site with just plain blog in plain (X)HTML format. Believe me, I have had Wordpress before, and it's only for people who absolutely don't know how to code a blog on their own. It's ridiculously slow (and no I'm not going to OPTIMIZE IT), and way too bloated.
Not only that, but there is nothing more annoying than a program altering my own hand code. That's was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. So yeah you don't know what your talking about. Dugg down. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4*****
- fixinah, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9America doesnt need broadband, I thought you guys just communicated through the word of jesus right?
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3the rest of the uk - 8meg (if you're lucky) capped £30
- cabazorro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I just switched to Verizon triple play FoSS for 100/month. 270 Channels. Broadband and VoIP. Will see how that fares.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Eventually the market is going to saturate. That's when the real price and speed competition kicks in.
- DavX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually most webservers will limit the bandwidth on a per-cnnection basis, so no connection can ever move at more than that rate. Usually something like 1-2MB/s, which is still pretty fast. This is done so when I download an ISO from the webserver, I can't take that servers full bandwidth, if I have 100mb, and you have 100mb, and the server has 100mb, we could easily take all the bandwidth at once, unless it was capped. (This doesn't take into account disk limitations, but that doesn't matter in this case)
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I want that candy. :)
- Dustmuffins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeesh, I feel for ya, bandwidth limits SUCK. I would use that in a day =P
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2that sucks, even in russia I have better and cheaper tariffs
- brownspank, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4So, who wants to play finish the sentence?
- Yancie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have lived in a rural community for about 6 years now. It's Bellsouth Territory and from what I can tell they havn't had any growth in the past 6 years. They are content offering expensive land lines and crappy customer service.
- DavX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Many, if not most, ISPs do this.
- tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23meg *****? umm i pay $50 aus for a 512kbps connection and a 10gig download limit.. and that's considered a 'good deal' here.
- octophobic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Only in the bible belt. I hear the transfer speeds are sinfully quick though.
- Mushroonaut, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2I'm from Chile and we have very expensive broadband service. I currently pay $62.00 USD for 1MB dsl.:-(
- Price, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Japan and Sweden are good too from what I know, in terms of speed and price. I've got a friend in Sweden who gets 100/100MB connection for about £20 a month I think. Whereas in good old Jersey (UK), I get 2MB for £15 a month.
But yeah, SK has like 90% of the population on high-speed broadband I think. - tuartboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Another chip in here from Fort Wayne. I agree about the reliability. I have been using the 15/2 fios for about a year now and it has only gone down 1 time. That was a serious outage due to a bad trunk line, however, and took out most of our neighborhood. They sent crews out to our area and had us back online later that morning. The service is just as fast as they advertise and I have had BT clients running for months with no bandwidth cap or warnings of any kind.
- justineatworld, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2 In NY we've got Verizon FiOS now.
$50/mo 20mb down 5mb up.
It's basically candy for pirates - zebulonSWE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, I am from Sweden and I have 100/10MB. It´s a shame that they reduced the up-speed from 100MB to 10MB. But, anyway, it's good since the Up and Down are independent from eachother.
- farther, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm paying $45 CDN per month for 8Mbps cable in Ontario. I'm highly doubtful that anyone in Canada gets fibre for $30 per month, let alone $100. Your friend is ***** you.
- ikoul, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2They need to focus on providing enough bandwidth for the users they already have. I'm sick of this overselling crap. They'll get more subscribers when they have decent service, instead of 'barely in the top 20 countries in terms of connectivity' service.
- joe361, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Are you dumb or what?
- octophobic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's not a lot less than what I pay for Comcast. How many of those 270 channels are West Coast / East Coast duplicates?
- yunus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean there is such a thing as market saturation where you run out of customers to sell your product to? Shocking, just shocking.
- farther, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"U.S. broadband subscriber growth, which had been rising at a blistering pace for nearly 12 quarters," is still as slow and bug-plagued as ever, as U.S. telecommunications companies still refused to get their heads out of their arses and improve technology. A representative, who oddly enough represents all of the American telecoms, is reported as saying that, "[the American telecom industry] loves their oligopoly and their price-fixing just fine, thank you very much". The representative went on to say, "we're rich, you're paying through the ass for what little we want to give you - it's a wonderful thing". *****.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I pay 50 a month for optimum online. It is 15/2 and my only gripe is the price...way too expensive.
- somecheesypoofs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes. It kicks ass. I've had the FiOS internet since 10/05 in Ft. Wayne, IN, USA. (It has only gone down twice - in 2yrs - due to storms. I lost all power, so I imagine that had something to do with it.) I just signed up for the FiOS TV and they are so busy signing up people around here it takes 30+ days to get it installed. Comcast would come out that same day. That just tells me where the future is (FiOS) and where everyone is leaving from, the past (Comcast). I'm not complaining about the 30 days - i'm excited for all of the channels and HDTV goodness. I'm spending the time upgrading my 2 new TiVo HDs to 750gb now......
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And for online gaming. :)
- fixinah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I'd go with what?
- mcman1223, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1seems like great stuff for the consumer. what i would like to know is what the effect on these companies' stock price will be, and if diggers are looking at something that could possibly make us a lot of money in stocks.
- schnikies79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1At least you can get broadband, I have no options outside of dial-up and satellite. I live in the county, but I'm only 25mins from a large city. Verizon is supposedly going to have DSL in this are by the end of 2008. We'll see.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You sir, are a complete *****. There is no "bandwidth cap limit" on web servers. Any site that's under heavy load, such as digg for example, are going to be located in a Network Operation Center where there's plenty of overhead.
People are complaining about residential bandwidth speeds, and rightly so. The Bush administration has done a piss poor job of fostering a competitive environment for broadband players in favor of helping the incumbent providers retain their hold on the market. Generally that consists of DSL from your local baby Bell, and a cable company, i.e. Comcast or Cox. If you're lucky you'll find a good local WISP. - howea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Except there will be no net neutrality, so you will be screwed as well.
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Lifetime for 10mb/sec? So in 50 years, do you still want 10mb/sec? :)
- unluckier, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Survey says.... "Growth"
Ding ding ding!
"Growth" is the missing word! - bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Novus has a good urban and I'm looking into it once I move into the Downtown core closer to work. But unless you're in a high-density population area, sometimes it's just not cost effective to run kilometers of fiber for a handful of residences.
- grakker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yet another person who knows only a little about what they are talking about. Most of your points are valid, if you are someone who wants to code your own. Otherwise, with not much effort, wordpress can be tuned for better performance.
I remember when this site:
http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/04/15/why-my-wordpress-site-is-so-much-faster-than-yours/
made it to the front page of digg and still worked fine. So, whatever to the wordpress bashers. I've used it, didn't really like it to much and moved on. - DavX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Doesn't really have much to do with diggers...
I don't know why people insist digg is this huge multi-national thing that everyone knows about. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's been slomo.
The US is actually behind when it comes to high speed due to much of the greed that ISPs have.
In reality, our speeds should be at LEAST 30-40 Mbps, but they're not. - octophobic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Does anyone use Verizon FIOS? I might want to switch over to that when I can also get FIOS TV.
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