| Heh I'd like to quote a couple of people from other sites:
Here in Slovenia, 100M/10M costs 20 EUR per month. No transfer limits.
For real. I'm currently living in Korea and I don't think that I've been able to find any service slower than 50 Mbps. The standard here is 100-160 Mbps for roughly $20/month. When I read the following line in the article:
"And the blog post notes that Verizon is offering some very high-speed services these days: fiber to the home at 50Mbps down and 20Mbps up in some areas."
I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard. Very high-speed my butt. |
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 Chris 313Come get somePremium
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| said by sonicmerlin:I'd like to quote a couple of people from other sites: Here in Slovenia, 100M/10M costs 20 EUR per month. No transfer limits. For real. I'm currently living in Korea and I don't think that I've been able to find any service slower than 50 Mbps. The standard here is 100-160 Mbps for roughly $20/month. When I read the following line in the article: "And the blog post notes that Verizon is offering some very high-speed services these days: fiber to the home at 50Mbps down and 20Mbps up in some areas." I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard. Very high-speed my butt. What's funny about that? 50/20 is nothing to sneeze at. Unless you don't think 50/20 is very fast... |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to sonicmerlin
said by sonicmerlin:I'd like to quote a couple of people from other sites: Here in Slovenia, 100M/10M costs 20 EUR per month. No transfer limits. For real. I'm currently living in Korea and I don't think that I've been able to find any service slower than 50 Mbps. The standard here is 100-160 Mbps for roughly $20/month. When I read the following line in the article: "And the blog post notes that Verizon is offering some very high-speed services these days: fiber to the home at 50Mbps down and 20Mbps up in some areas." I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard. Very high-speed my butt. Those are great prices, but try asking what their connectivity is to the rest of the world. It's usually a couple mbps per second. |
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Because FIOS costs a great deal more? Isn't that obvious? Not to mention their speeds are not even symmetrical despite running over fiber and costing so much more.
When freaking SLOVENIA trumps your fastest tier and costs almost an order of magnitude less, that's what some would consider a ripoff. |
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Connectivity to the rest of the world is kind of a meaningless statistic, considering most bandwidth intensive online services Americans accesss are hosted within the country. Youtube, hulu, and even Onlive all have server clusters located within the country. Same goes for Australia, China, etc.
And really, the Japanese don't know English very well, so they have little need to access sites outside of Japan.
On the other hand I remember hearing somewhere connectivity to the rest of the world is something like 20/5 (though I could be wrong). |
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Let's look at the other side of the coin, also, shall we ? The speed to connect to other Comcast users is also slow, throttled and encumbered by artificial transfers caps. So no matter what, it is slow, overpriced and lags technologically. No matter how you polish it, it is still exactly what it look like.
So people criticizing Japan, Korea and Slovenia and trying to find faults to what is GREAT service are exactly trying to take refuge in the mediocre service we have here. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to sonicmerlin
But can you get the speeds advertised outside the country? Seems like most of the world's web content is housed in the US. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to sonicmerlin
Not an order of magnitude. I'd take 50/20 over 100/10, and $20 is a mere fifth of $100 (DSLExtreme). |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to sonicmerlin
said by sonicmerlin:Here in Slovenia, 100M/10M costs 20 EUR per month. No transfer limits. Is that available outside doormaned luxury condos/outside the rich urban core?
I can pick an post-communist blighted country such as Ukraine and say 100mbitps for $35 USD »www.tenet.ua/domanet/tarif but its only available in limited luxury buildings. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to sonicmerlin
Hulu is only available in the US, to US based IPs, like many other services. |
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 FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | reply to WernerSchutz
yea. it is kind of amazing how people can embrace crappy service and not move towards something far far better. but then again our "free market" here in the states will do that for us.. phfft yea right. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to WernerSchutz
said by WernerSchutz:Let's look at the other side of the coin, also, shall we ? The speed to connect to other Comcast users is also slow, throttled and encumbered by artificial transfers caps. So no matter what, it is slow, overpriced and lags technologically. No matter how you polish it, it is still exactly what it look like. So people criticizing Japan, Korea and Slovenia and trying to find faults to what is GREAT service are exactly trying to take refuge in the mediocre service we have here. No one is criticizing those other countries, but the grass isn't always greener. There is a lot more in play in countries who have heavy FTTH deployment that simply isn't in play here. |
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| said by Matt:said by WernerSchutz:Let's look at the other side of the coin, also, shall we ? The speed to connect to other Comcast users is also slow, throttled and encumbered by artificial transfers caps. So no matter what, it is slow, overpriced and lags technologically. No matter how you polish it, it is still exactly what it look like. So people criticizing Japan, Korea and Slovenia and trying to find faults to what is GREAT service are exactly trying to take refuge in the mediocre service we have here. No one is criticizing those other countries, but the grass isn't always greener. There is a lot more in play in countries who have heavy FTTH deployment that simply isn't in play here. Such as...? |
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said by Matt:said by WernerSchutz:Let's look at the other side of the coin, also, shall we ? The speed to connect to other Comcast users is also slow, throttled and encumbered by artificial transfers caps. So no matter what, it is slow, overpriced and lags technologically. No matter how you polish it, it is still exactly what it look like. So people criticizing Japan, Korea and Slovenia and trying to find faults to what is GREAT service are exactly trying to take refuge in the mediocre service we have here. No one is criticizing those other countries, but the grass isn't always greener. There is a lot more in play in countries who have heavy FTTH deployment that simply isn't in play here. The grass IS greener regarding the topic discussed. The fact that maybe other things are not as good as here has nothing to do with that here the broadband market is dominated by overpriced low quality monopolies/duopolies . Strawman arguments are not what will hide that fact. |
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said by patcat88:said by sonicmerlin:Here in Slovenia, 100M/10M costs 20 EUR per month. No transfer limits. Is that available outside doormaned luxury condos/outside the rich urban core? I can pick an post-communist blighted country such as Ukraine and say 100mbitps for $35 USD » www.tenet.ua/domanet/tarif but its only available in limited luxury buildings. Versus here in out CORPORATIST heaven such speeds at that price are not available ANYWHERE. |
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