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- ALiberalMind, on 03/28/2009, -2/+107***** Comcast.
- thesportoflife, on 03/28/2009, -2/+40***** is ridiculously slow and expensive in Australia.
- BlackJackJester, on 03/28/2009, -1/+39Yes, farmer john might have to make some sacrifices...but urban centers have no excuse. I live in San Jose, and between the hours of 10am and 2am (the next day) the internet is dial-up speed to Google (which is about 10 miles away). It's hideous. I live in a brand new apartment building, with Comcast.
- inactive, on 03/28/2009, -1/+24and censored
- Khast, on 03/28/2009, -2/+24In given time, the US will probably have the broadband equivalent of dial-up for the fastest speeds. And everyone else in the world will be cruising the web at 1Gbps as the lowest tier. (Well except Austrailia, they will all be banned from the internet.)
- Wreckage, on 03/28/2009, -3/+22Well considering those "top countries' are the size of a US state....
Send em out here to string some fiber up in Alaska or across the Rockies. - inactive, on 03/28/2009, -11/+28I hate when people completely ignore the incredibly difficult logistical aspects of wiring a country like the U.S. and just start railing on how our "slow" speeds are just another sign of the country's failings.
- Culero, on 03/28/2009, -3/+18I would move to France, but I am le tired....
- tavallai, on 03/28/2009, -7/+2120mb/s right now, upgrading to 100mb/s fibre at no extra cost soon... Vive la France !
- mcsenget, on 03/28/2009, -2/+14dugg for jokes
- IanG73, on 03/28/2009, -2/+13I vividly remember when I was in 6th or 7th grade (Currently a college freshman now) former president George Bush said that he wanted everyone in the United States to have access to high-speed broadband internet by the year 2007
...... - FishHammer, on 03/28/2009, -1/+11I live in the country in Minnesota and all I can get is 512k DSL. This article just makes me sad.
- bergur1, on 03/28/2009, -0/+10they should just go by state in the US
- strangewill, on 03/28/2009, -0/+10***** Time Warner.
1.5mbit for $45/month. Thanks hosers. - TokenBlack, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/Images/commenta ...
Probably not up-to-date, but still pretty effective at getting the point across. - smindsrt, on 03/28/2009, -3/+11Speeds have got very fast over the years but living in some areas it's tough to get a fast connection.
- simplyintricate, on 03/28/2009, -6/+14Oh look at the countries above the U.S., they're much smaller!
It's easier to build fast broadband infrastructure in a small country. - BlackJackJester, on 03/28/2009, -0/+8@shdwfx - it's a legitimate argument. It takes physically more fiber/copper to wire a larger area, which means more maintenance out in ***** nowhere, as well as more repeaters/nodes/data centers.
@gloth - Canada's 'population' is almost all within a couple hundred miles of the US border. So really...not as infrastructurally big as the US. We're worse than those other countries because of the fight for power between the states and the fed's...I don't feel like explaining that because I don't want to write an essay on digg. - BlackJackJester, on 03/28/2009, -0/+8I'm not really sure how ownership of the transmission lines and whatnot happens, but It seems almost logical to me that the city would own the lines, and maintain/upgrade them, while the ISP's would simply lease them for use, so it would be possible for small ISP's to operate and break up the horrible horrible monopoly certain companies have over cable internet. Maybe not though.
- ileftfark, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8The biggest issue with this comes down to regulation... In the US, most ISPs have a monopoly or collusion that allows them to charge $50/mo for 5mbps. This isn't going to change unless legislation opens up the playing field. It's akin to the gas station down the street that always stays within a few pennies to the gallon against the gas station across the street from them. It's difficult to enforce any realistic semblance of a free market within these confines, which makes the US consumer lose in the end.
- geoffg, on 03/28/2009, -6/+13Clearly we need Obama and government to fix this.
- spoon088, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8We'd have better internet if we didn't give certain countries billions per year.
- BrentFail, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7Here's a breakdown of speeds around the world.
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php
U.S. is ranked 22 on here. - Murrabbit, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7"Web users in the U.S. surf the Internet at an average broadband speed of 3.9 Mbps"
Holy *****! That's way faster than any service I can get living here in the South Side of Phoenix! Like twice as fast in fact. I'd kill my own mother for internet that fast. - shdwfx, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7How does the absolute size of a country matter?
Plus, having fewer "centers" would hurt them, if anything, because centers can be wired pretty nicely.
As to who built it: you have any sources for your claim? I don't doubt it, but I am curious... - spazzm2008, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8Damn straight. Even a line that is nominally 7 or 8 mbps crawls down to 1 mbps if you try to access anything outside of Australia. Having a sparsely populated country separated from the rest of the world by huge oceans tends to do that.
Then there's the whole censorship FAIL. - creepnitreal420, on 03/28/2009, -1/+8Do you seriously not know Canada is bigger than the U.S. with a much smaller population density?
- zeth006, on 03/28/2009, -1/+7You sir, will get dugg up very soon for that lol.
- kyleabcd, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6Don't move to Australia, I pay roughly $70 US for the 'fastest' service and a 25gb usage cap which includes uploands and downloads.
- leandrotami, on 03/28/2009, -1/+7Not to mention all those billions used to finance wars and for saving mismanaged private companies from bankruptcy.
- plasmoske, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6you do
- AngelBunny, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6The article is wrong about DOCSIS 3.0. 50mbps is the highest tier comcrap sells to home users. The spec can handle much higher speeds easily. Also, 30% of the country is not DOCSIS3.0. It is a spot in Oregon and then one or two other cities in the country and that is it right now. Comcast still has to upgrade most of its peers to DOCSIS 2.0 first. Their timeline is 2010 to remove DOCSIS 1.1 officially and on an estimated timeline 1212 have all of their consumers at least DOCSIS 2.0.
Btw on comcast's network currently DOCSIS 2.0 for me supports 30 (or so) mbps down and 12mbps up. It is easy to tell if you're on DOCSIS 2.0 on comcast's network. Go to speedtest.net, run the test. Is your upload higher than 4megbit/s during the 'speed boost'? If so you're on DOCSIS2.0. Most are not today. - gloth, on 03/28/2009, -4/+9@fragowell: ah, yes, the standard excuse. Please provide some reasons why you think the US is at a disadvantage, compared to countries like Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, who all have faster internet access and lower population densities.
- garionw, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5lol, that made me laugh.
I hate Rudd. And Telstra - MonsterRayn, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Technically everyone has "access to" it, but is unwilling to pay for high speed satellite internet, which with Wild Blue, costs up to $59.95 for 512kbps download speeds, and about $95 for 1.5kbps. So the access to it is there, just most are unwilling to pay such a high amount. Not the former ( former-former-former actually) president's fault. :-D
- themastersb, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6I have a 500KB/s connection for free. (leeching wireless from around the neighbourhood is awesome)
- boozinf, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6It's been thirteen seconds since I looked at a globe, but I believe only Russia, China, and Canada are larger than the U.S. in terms of land mass. And only China and India are larger in terms of population.
+1 for, uh, sarcasm? - DontGiveADamn, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Yeah, like Egypt and Israel.
- WL92, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6***** you, Comcast. Do you hear me, Comcast, ***** YOU!
- tavallai, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6€30/mo for phone/TV/internet.
It's like Comcast Triple Play back in the states, only not sucky ;)
There's a ton of competition for broadband in France, so the prices stay low and the bandwidth high. (In the big cities, at least.) Who woulda thought it?? - NHeerDesign, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5"Malik (and others) expect connections in the U.S. to continue to get faster..."
No *****? - Barackalypse, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4How do you like the 19.6% sales tax (VAT) and mean income tax rate of 50%?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Taxes_By_ ... - Netrilix, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4I've got DOCSIS 3.0, but even with DOCSIS 2.0, I really don't see anything to complain about speed-wise. P2P maybe, but when you're pulling off servers, I doubt Comcast is your limiting factor in very many cases.
- spiffyfitz, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Nelson: Ha ha!
- Wreckage, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Not at all. The average US speed is brought down by the number of people in areas that can not get DSL or even cable because of the distance from a central office.
The top country on that list is "Tunisia", you could probably wire that in a weekend. - arunforce, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Shoulda put Al Gore on the job the first time, he created the internets.
/s (he should of been president though) - hermizzle, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Dear Government,
Embiggen my internet tubes - wonkavsn, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Canada is like 192nd.
That's right - slower than North Korea. - boozinf, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3Study brought to you by Akamai Technologies, founded at M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sincerely,
User of Digg, founded in San Francisco, CA, USA, via the WWW, invented on a NeXT, over the internet, invented by DARPA / Al Gore...
p.s. Part of what is great about the federal system is that the US can be a relatively cogent whole with low-connectivity regions such as "Wyoming" while being primarily (not wholly, but primarily) responsible for the entire notion of "connectivity." We have Kevin Rose, we have Ted Nugent. What a country! - xRand0mx, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3I wish I could digg you up a thousand times.
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