American DSL is infamously bad, but I mean seriously 1.1 mbs???
WTF, everyone in my state using my ISP gets at least 2mbs. (I use at&t yahoo dsl, by the way). I'm dead sure I was getting 2mbs when I first upgraded my connection too, since I set my muTorrent to 250kbs max download; I've since had to throttle it down to 125.
Meanwhile the average Canadian can connect at 7mbs, the average French at 17mbs, and the average Japanese at like 50, or some other disgusting number.
... and the average Australian connects at 256kbit.
Yeah, before bitching about Internet access in the US, come live in Australia for a year.
Australia is for koalas.
>>1
The government wanted to invest a fair drop to improve overall internet speeds. Telstra didn't want to spend so much.
Australia. That is all!
Aussies pay per-unit for bandwidth. Teh ultimate suck.
Everyone pays per-unit for bandwidth.
Unless you're talking about download allowance, where there are some accounts which have you pay per GB. Although I'm not on one of those.
A typical australian ISP would offer 256k, 2GB or 10GB download allowance, and if you exceed the limit you get slowed down or have to pay per MB. All for roughly $40 per month. Most of these figures vary but that's what we put up with.
No Telstra and Sol didn't like the idea of "competition" using their lines!
>>12
No, it's worse. All the New Zealanders move to Australia, because there is no work there.
>>2
I'd probably kill for that kind of speed.
Rural America doesn't get any kind of broadband service. The best we get is 50kbps, which is super lucky.
>>12
New Zealand's similar.
japan can do 50mbs? can anyone confirm this? holy shit im moving to japan if true
Well, we've been suffering long enough in Germany.
16MBit/s flat rates are now fairly common here; thank god.
But I know your pain. We fought for this, do the same. Found communities, complain to the government, etc.
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=4&country=78®ion=375&city=1111
More like 20mbs in Tokyo, which is pretty common with their fiber-optic lines. Although I understand this speed is mostly intra-Japan, they don't connect to US servers any faster than we connect to theirs, obviously.
That may not be such a big issue as long as there are enough BitTorrent peers in Japan downloading the same files. :-)
>>22 Perhaps you should upgrade the capacity?
no u. and stop distorting time, asshole