| and in canada we get 25Kbytes a sec ugh how were treated up here |
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 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Or where I am. A few miles east is Verizon territory in RI, Cox comes to the other side of town but not where I am, Comcast is close.
I pay $70 for 10/1 right now. The only other alternative is DSL. |
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newz71
join:2002-01-01
Taylor, TX | I pay $49.95/mth for 1.5/768, so stop all ya'lls complaining about price. Yer all too spoiled if ya ask me.
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| said by newz71:I pay $49.95/mth for 1.5/768, so stop all ya'lls complaining about price. Yer all too spoiled if ya ask me. Sorry that your limited view and experience grants you this vision and shapes your opinion in this manner.
But for us, these prices are rather high, and I don't care how you try to manipulate the numbers (because what I'm about to say is probably going to get me attacked with: space, per capita, bla-bla-bla), U.S. Broadband prices are overpriced.
Japan: 100/100 for $33.95. Uncapped. Unshaped.
South Korea (which coincidentally topped the broadband penetration listing): 100/100 for roughly $25 (As of '04). Unshaped. All you can eat. And potentially looking at 1/1GBPS in 2012.
USA (20th in broadband penetration (here come the hecklers)): ???/??? for prices averaging $60 ranging from 768/128 to 101/?? (can't remember cablevisions asynchronus rate), and an average availability of 1 isp per area. 2 if you're lucky.
Welcome to America. |
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| said by PapaMidnight:Japan: 100/100 for $33.95. Uncapped. Unshaped. South Korea (which coincidentally topped the broadband penetration listing): 100/100 for roughly $25 (As of '04). Unshaped. All you can eat. And potentially looking at 1/1GBPS in 2012. What is the population density in those countries? How many people live in urban MDUs versus in rural or suburban single family homes?
I'm sure you wouldn't want to see the cost of living in Japan either. It is absolutely astronomical.
I could live with only 20Mbps speed if it meant that I could afford a fairly decent detached single family home. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by PapaMidnight:Japan: 100/100 for $33.95. Uncapped. Unshaped. South Korea (which coincidentally topped the broadband penetration listing): 100/100 for roughly $25 (As of '04). Unshaped. All you can eat. And potentially looking at 1/1GBPS in 2012. Only inside the same ISP/same country. Connection to USA is ~20/2ish. |
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PapMidnight has points but maybe someone can answwer me a question. 100/100 is nice and all but how many people actually use this in Japan?? I wonder if it is like here where the vast majority use lower priced tiers that are more in line with what we have here. |
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said by fifty nine:said by PapaMidnight:Japan: 100/100 for $33.95. Uncapped. Unshaped. South Korea (which coincidentally topped the broadband penetration listing): 100/100 for roughly $25 (As of '04). Unshaped. All you can eat. And potentially looking at 1/1GBPS in 2012. What is the population density in those countries? How many people live in urban MDUs versus in rural or suburban single family homes? I'm sure you wouldn't want to see the cost of living in Japan either. It is absolutely astronomical. I could live with only 20Mbps speed if it meant that I could afford a fairly decent detached single family home. i'll bite, Seoul, Tokyo and Japan are 8, 11, and 13. in most populated cities in the world.
now if we look at it by metropolitian it's Tokyo 1, Seoul 2, and New York 4.
yet of those cities ny is the only that doesn't have those speeds.
and ny is just as expensive to live in as those cities.
for the usa ny has good speeds, even then it's only some markets. as manhattan doesn't have cablevision, nor does queens they have time warner.
bk and the bronx have both cablevison and some areas have fios.
now even if when all of nyc is wired we still won't have the bandwidth of tokyo or seoul.
to be fair cablevision has a 100/15 tier, it's a nice start but still not up to par in japan and korea. |
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said by patcat88:said by PapaMidnight:Japan: 100/100 for $33.95. Uncapped. Unshaped. South Korea (which coincidentally topped the broadband penetration listing): 100/100 for roughly $25 (As of '04). Unshaped. All you can eat. And potentially looking at 1/1GBPS in 2012. Only inside the same ISP/same country. Connection to USA is ~20/2ish. 20/2 is still faster than what most americans get. |
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