The U.S. is Catching up in Internet Connection Speeds

[puddleglum]

[citation][nom]Chainzsaw[/nom]Wow lucky all of you guys. My speed is 1.5Mb for 80$ a month with a 10GB/month limit. Yes its horrible. Yes I have to deal with it. No I don't want to move. Especially being one of the people "in the know" about computers, I find it painful to deal with these speeds sometimes, and the ping times? Horrible. 700MS average. Google - if your reading this please send some 1Gb connections this way. www.qiniq.com[/citation]Going by your avatar, you live on The Moon. You're lucky you get the internet at all. 😀

 

[tomfreak]

mine fiber line 5Mbps @ $50

 

[dextermat]

And Canada is going back to dial-up 😛

 

[acadia11]

Verizon, ATT, Comcast, Cox, you all Sux giant baby balls! When did the US get happy to let everyone be more technologically advanced than us. Hell China, has a space shuttle now, and we don't... I hate the GOP.

 

[elcentral]

[citation][nom]The-Darkening[/nom]And to think that here in Argentina we're getting charged 20 U$S for 1 Mb. There are faster speeds, they become increasingly unaffordable. Max I've seen is 20 Mbs for 110 U$S monthly.[/citation]

All i can say is wow. We got a deal for 4g 35bucks and got 80mbps down and 38mbps up unlimited. I feel for you i really do

 

[The_Trutherizer]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]One of my friends is consistently getting 200 Kb/s on his broadband connection. It dips below 54 Kb/s during the evening or a storm.No surprise[/citation]

That's nothing. In South Africa we have to make do with 4mbps for about $125 a month. I would pay $80 for 20mbps with a smile on my face. Economic powerhouse of Africa my behind.

 

[fyend]

How is the USA doing on capping usage and overage charges compared to the rest of the world?

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]fyend[/nom]How is the USA doing on capping usage and overage charges compared to the rest of the world?[/citation]

Or better yet, price per data?

 

[jtsyo]

Is this broadband only or looking at 3G/4G and other wireless?

 

[warlock101]

i pay 51 US dollars for a 512kbps connection with 8gb downloads and upload limit but it comes with unlimited downloads from 10pm to 7am :\

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]The-Darkening[/nom]And to think that here in Argentina we're getting charged 20 U$S for 1 Mb. There are faster speeds, they become increasingly unaffordable. Max I've seen is 20 Mbs for 110 U$S monthly.[/citation]

Ouch, i got 100/100 mbit for below 20$ (Sweden) and could almost get 2x 1/1gbit for those 110$

 

[apone]

It still bugs me that American cable companies such as Cox, Time Warner, and Comcast still advertise ridiculous download speeds on their commercials, neglecting to mention that "blazing 12 mbps speed!" connection is a shared cable between you and your neighborhood. So the only true way to remotely get that speed is if no one else but you is online (3 am?) or no one else is downloading anything (as if).

 

[heffeque]

I guess that speeds are getting higher because caps are getting lower.

It amazes me how a supposedly first world country like the US has internet connections with monthly bandwidth caps.

 

[nebun]

this is so sad, considering that the internet was started in the US....greed, greed, greed....you want more speed?....how about you pay me an arm and a leg....that should do it...

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Don't forget there are still vast areas of this country that is still in the 56k dial up era if they even get that much. I have to cough up $52 a month for what is supposed to be a 2.5mb connection but only get around 300-500kb a sec but that is all I can get. The other options cost even more and two are slower grrr. This country needs to update it's infrastructure badly.[/citation]

If your speed is truly small mb, and not MB, then 300-500 kbs is right.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]this is so sad, considering that the internet was started in the US....greed, greed, greed....you want more speed?....how about you pay me an arm and a leg....that should do it...[/citation]

What?!

Sure TCP/IP owes it's existence to the US Gov. but without Sir Tim Berners-Lee there would be no internet like we use today.

 

[Guest]

You are confusing the internet with the world wide web. The internet is the hardware backbone, the web is the http software frontend we use today. Tim Berners was responsible for the www as we know it today, not the internet backend.

Don't get me wrong, his contribution is still very important.

 

[urbanrider]

In Canada I'm getting 100Mbps for 80$, that being said in less dense areas in Canada the internet is archaic.

 

[The-Darkening]

[citation][nom]elcentral[/nom]All i can say is wow. We got a deal for 4g 35bucks and got 80mbps down and 38mbps up unlimited. I feel for you i really do[/citation]


Here we have 2G and a really limited 3G which is totally crowded. In mobile internet we're in the stone age. I was lucky to download 15 KB total yesterday. This is because they offer cheap internet (0.20 U$S a day) and everyone jumps in, saturating the bandwidth for even those who pay for unlimited access. So even if I pay 50 U$S monthly for unlimited, I get atrocious speeds. 3G here is crap. There are no new towers being installed, nothing.

 

[jungleboogiemonster]

Speed means nothing if you're one of the many Americans who can't even get internet service.

 

[rahulbond2002]

[citation][nom]ankit0x1[/nom]man ..here in india, its sick....20$ for 1gb ....and 250KB/s ...for a fucking month!! and 50$ for unlimited[/citation]
Hmmm i consider myself luckier than you then..Get charged the same amount(1000 INR) for a 10 Mbps connection(which is reliable) with a data cap of 40 GB after which speed drops to 2 Mbps and stays there irrespective of further how much i download.I live in HYD btw...

 

[tntom]

We need a more accurate rating that is a product of speed and attainable monthly payload ie. if you downloaded at full speed for the whole month, how many Gigabytes would have downloaded. 100Mbps does me nothing if I can only download 1 or 2 Gigabytes.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Sounds like a lot of people in Japan have free net. Last I checked anything below 20Mbps was free, and you could get 50 for rather cheap.

 

[jordan009]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]There. I Fixed it![/citation]
So true Internet here sucks terribly. Like 60 $/month from Rogers and only up to speeds of one megabit in downloading from Torrents. For SpeedTest.net download speed I got 15.94 MB/s and upload of 0.50

 

[zeek the geek]

3mb/s with 128kb/s up. DSL. It's awful, not to mention paying $70 a month for it, and dial up is $25, this is still in new york, I can't even get a better internet connection where I'm at. With only on internet service and no competition it's a highway robbery.