Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?
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Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?
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#2What's with the title suggesting slow internet speed relating to unhappiness?
It's a uk website, I can't imagine how many Americans would actually see the article. Writing about some other countries' problems doesn't solve your own.
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#3About as much as you're enjoying your Brexit I'd guess.
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#4Oi, you got a license for posting that article, Brit?
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#5I mean considering the US is 2,959,064.44 square miles and UK is 93,628, I’d say we’re doing pretty good for having 30x the area and only 5x the population.
I’m greatly enjoying posting this from my Google Fiber gigabit connection, thanks.
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#6The article is comparing apples and oranges. The 25 Mbps “FCC” figure is reporting the fastest speeds offered in each census block. This is a really dumb measure for broadband speeds. In particular, every area served by DSL will have close-in customers who can get 25 Mbps, but many who can get only a fraction of that. But that’s the measure the FCC asks for, and has used since long before the current administration.
The 6.3 Mbps figure, by contrast, appears to be an average of 380,000 consumer-initiated Google speed test runs, geo-located to census blocks by IP address. It’s not reporting maximums, and it’s also not clear whether any attempt was made to narrow the results to exclude wireless internet connections from the average.
According to Akamai, as of 2017 25 Mbps average speed would put you as the #2 fastest internet in the world, just after South Korea: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... I don’t think anyone is claiming Georgia has the fastest internet in the world.
The article’s sweeping claims about “America” as a whole don’t seem justified based on a study done in Georgia. Ookla has the US at #7 worldwide for fixed broadband speeds: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed. Akamai has it in the top 10 (see above). The Ookla data probably is skewed upward, assuming people doing speed tests probably have faster than average Internet, but the Akamai data should be very reliable, being based on way more data points than this Google speeds test survey.
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#7I mean considering the US is 2,959,064.44 square miles and UK is 93,628, I’d say we’re doing pretty good for having 30x the area and only 5x the population. I’m greatly enjoying posting this from my Google Fiber gigabit connection, thanks.
Australia is 2,969,898 square miles and 1/13 the population of the US.
I still don't think our internet should be so slow because 85% of our population lives within 50km of the coast (in 2001, probably more now).
Our "average fixed broadband" speed is 33Mbit. I'm really jealous of your fibre. The fastest residential speed available where I live, in a major city centre, is 100Mbit. I'm considering moving to NZ.
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#8> The official US government definition of broadband is 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.
Seriously? That's a broadband definition of 20 years ago. When ADSL was introduced. But now is the optic fiber era. My guts feeling definition is at least 100Mbps both way simultaneously.
I'm enjoying consistent 400Mbps at daylight, 300Mbps at night.
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#9> The official US government definition of broadband is 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. Seriously? That's a broadband definition of 20 years ago. When ADSL was introduced. But now is the optic fiber era. My guts feeling definition is at least 100Mbps both way simultaneously. I'm enjoying consistent 400Mbps at daylight, 300Mbps at night.
Honest question:
What...on...earth...could you possibly do with that? I have 50Mbps and feel like that's kind of absurd.
Netflix recommends 25Mbps for streaming 4K video. [1]
So....streaming a dozen 4K movies simultaneously?
Sub-minute downloads of entire OS images? [2]
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#10> The official US government definition of broadband is 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. Seriously? That's a broadband definition of 20 years ago. When ADSL was introduced. But now is the optic fiber era. My guts feeling definition is at least 100Mbps both way simultaneously. I'm enjoying consistent 400Mbps at daylight, 300Mbps at night.
Honest question: What...on...earth...could you possibly do with that? I have 50Mbps and feel like that's kind of absurd. Netflix recommends 25Mbps for streaming 4K video. [1] So....streaming a dozen 4K movies simultaneously? Sub-minute downloads of entire OS images? [2] [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444 [2] https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/#ubuntu-19-04-vbox
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5y4ysq/largest...
And you can load news websites that "need" 2000 assets in less than 2 minutes. I think that is mostly it, so that you can suffer more advertisement in higher resolution.