Comments on: USA Internet Speeds Slow (Really Slow)

By: Broadband In The US Is Slow (And No One Is Surprised) | PCMech

Broadband In The US Is Slow (And No One Is Surprised) | PCMech — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:13 +0000

[...] US is grossly behind the times when it comes to our broadband speed. The last time I wrote about this, the US ranked 15th in the world, with an extremely poor last-mile average download rate of [...]

By: Kris Hulstein

Kris Hulstein — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:33:40 +0000

I would love to be in your shoes to be able to get 3
mbps for only $34. The City I live in in NW Iowa has a monopoly on the whole city and I pay $54 a month for their fastest speed of 2mbps. I play video games online and it lags all the time. I am so frustrated with slow internet for outrageous prices. Towns only 10 minutes away have 2-4 seperate providers to choose from but they aren’t allowed into my town. They aren’t real cheap either, but faster and cheaper than I am paying. The other speed option was 1mbps for $42 a month. Rediculous!

By: thomas brown

thomas brown — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:54:38 +0000

sharron, appears to me to touch a question i have had for many a moon. over the years i have had occasion to work with private phone companies who wanted to provide better services to rural areas and into states with large rural areas. we seem to always find strong resistance to the idea. Why i can only sermise. but when you consider that ALASKA is last on the totem pole??? Isn’t that where a Vice Presidential Canidate is from. I do not believe our poiticians like high speed. Why do they not?????

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:08:50 +0000

Also, Japan on the whole covers a very small area compared to the US and other infrastructures. Distances are shorter thereby needing fewer hops and fewer translations between services, machines, protocols, mediums, on, and on, and on. Also, the difference in price between companies and areas is prohibitive. For instance I live in an area that just happens to be on the edge of two seperate DSL providers. I live directly in one of thoses area and my neighbor across the street is in the others area. We use the same infrastructure, lines go to the same line on the same pole. Yet, provider one charges me $34US for 3mbps, while my neighbor has provider number two and receives 6mbps for $30US! On the same line! Can I switch, my location across the street is not in there call area! We need more competition in more than one area in this industry. Just my $0.02
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By: john

john — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:04:17 +0000

heh I live in RI but which isp is it that has the best download speed?

Also most isps limit bandwidth so even if they “say” you “will” have so and so download/upload speed, you would most likely never fully experience it and only get a margin instead.

By: Sharron (kkomp)

Sharron (kkomp) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:30:42 +0000

‘Not that much better in the UK either: I live within reasonable distance of a telephone exchange and get broadband from BT over the copper wires at between 3 and 7 mbps.

Some people are forced to use Sky (Satellite) or dial-up because they live too far from any exchange to get broadband and outside of the more rural cabled areas of the country so they can’t get Virgin Media’s alleged 20mbps cable broadband even.

It appears as a weird scenario when you note that, as a general rule, the more prominent a country is in the political arena the slower its Internet speeds appear to be, at least to a certain extent.