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2009-08-26 Science & Technology

US 'far behind other countries in Internet speed'

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Might just have something to do with size. South Korea is about the size of Florida. It also has to do with the fact that it is the United States of American. That's 50 separate public utility commissions dealing with regulatory aspects that effect bandwidth. Try wiring the four corners area [Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico] with large areas and low population density versus any major metro corridor something the Netherlands doesn't have to deal with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-26 07:45|| 2009-08-26 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Those willing to pay more can get faster. I have children to send to college, so I'm not willing to pay more. The nice thing about America is that we have such choices.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-26 08:19|| 2009-08-26 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Since America has the majority of the worlds servers hosted there the ping speed will probably be the best in the world, however bandWIDTH at the last mile or so might be rubbish due to scale factors.

Like everything IT it's probably best to look at the Log2 of speeds rather than the raw figures.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-08-26 09:34|| 2009-08-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 It proves what I've always thought, that all those other countries are just a bunch of low ping bastidges and probably hax as well.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-26 09:56|| 2009-08-26 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah? Well, ours is BIGGER than yours. So there.

Posted by mojo 2009-08-26 10:35|| 2009-08-26 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Our cell phone service is much worse than other countries too.

Posted by Iblis 2009-08-26 11:47|| 2009-08-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 How does the USA stack up against legitimate comparison countries: Canada, China, Russia, India? South Korea is about the size of Ohio.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-26 14:24|| 2009-08-26 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 A lot of these countries installed their infrastructure recently. Countries who started playing this game from the beginning are still dealing with a lot of legacy stuff. Besides, I don't need a huge bandwidth. I'll order it if they get the holographic killer app.

Posted by gorb 2009-08-26 14:33|| 2009-08-26 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 But WAY ahead in snark.

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-26 21:44|| 2009-08-26 21:44|| Front Page Top

#10 HMMMMM, HMMMMM, so IOW its NOT the OWG-NWO SKYNET reading, recording, stopping, andor altering, etc. our personal emails at will widout having to ask us or tell us, D *** NG IT ITS BECUZ US NET SPEED IS TOO SLOW + BANDWIDTH NOT BIG ENUFF???

Thank goodness we settled/cleared that up.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-26 21:51|| na]">[na] 2009-08-26 21:51|| Front Page Top

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