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Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by gingabriska »

brokenmachine wrote: post #7
wincy wrote: post #5

I 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.

When I lived in NZ, I used to pay $40 a month for 250mbps up and down.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by beauzero »

paulddraper wrote: post #9
ezoe wrote: post #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.

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

RDP works better for one. I regularly connect with my phone because my 4G connection is better. Out of 4 people in our house 3 work remotely. One requires HD quality upload throughout the day. DSL took a complaint to the FCC to get hooked up. We are about 40 minutes drive from the Atlanta airport about 15 yards from a rural 2 lane "highway"...the State of Georgia's designation not ours. My mother lives on a reservation in Montana, where nobody thought it was profitable to purchase the co-op...they have 100Mbps vs. our 12-15Mbps in ground.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by rasz »

wincy wrote: post #5

I 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.

How about NY? or even just Manhattan? lets say 1st Ave. Pretty dense, populated area right? Wanna guess your ISP and speeds availability there?

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by wincy »

rasz wrote: post #13
wincy wrote: post #5

I 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.

How about NY? or even just Manhattan? lets say 1st Ave. Pretty dense, populated area right? Wanna guess your ISP and speeds availability there?

Nobody lives there though. It's far too crowded.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by Lammy »

paulddraper wrote: post #9
ezoe wrote: post #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.

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

Few people can guess what high-bandwidth experiences might catch on once more people have connections that can enable them

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by brokenmachine »

gingabriska wrote: post #11
brokenmachine wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When I lived in NZ, I used to pay $40 a month for 250mbps up and down.

Very tempting.

I've seen posts from people with 1Gbit, but I don't know how much it cost.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by flukus »

wincy wrote: post #5

I 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.

(Total land area/population) is only be relevant if telecom infrastructure were rolled out in a uniform grid pattern across the entire country. Most of the population lives in a much smaller area.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by paulddraper »

Lammy wrote: post #15
paulddraper wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Few people can guess what high-bandwidth experiences might catch on once more people have connections that can enable them

Ah, ads.

Re: Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America?

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Post by ezoe »

paulddraper wrote: post #9
ezoe wrote: post #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.

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

Not much.

I can download most games from Steam in a few minutes.

I can download twice a year Ubuntu upgrade very fast.

Aside that, I can satisfy 100Mbps bandwidth.

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