| reply to kdwycha
Re: What A Waste.... said by kdwycha:...the average customer needs a maximum of 512/128 for normal internet habits... nuff said If that's good enough for you, then good for you. But I'd be miserable on 512/128. Hell, I might as well go dial-up for that and stick my thumb in my mouth for that. It's 2009. We should be moving towards GIGABIT, not 100 MEGABIT in the country that freakin' invented the internet. We've been outpaced by every other country in the game we started.
It's obvious what happened here. Competition happened and forced TDS Telecom to offer higher speeds at lower prices to remain viable in the market place. That's how the market should work. If it was like that every where, then we might have some decent internet stateside available instead of the excuse for it we have now. |
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| We're not outpaced by everyone. Just Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and a few countries in Europe. Everywhere else is just as slow, if not slower, than we are.
A bette rquestion might be to ask what the average speed of other people in doing the things they do on the internet. There are a lot of servers that are stateside, so a gigabit symmetric connectionw on't do you any good if your out-of-country speed limit is 20 Mbps.
That said, 50/20 for $50 is what the rpice and speed should be everywhere in the US where cable, DSL or fiber internet is available. Yes I know cable and DSL can't support 20 Mbps up, at least not in most cases. That's what upstream channel bonding and fiber are for.
Anyway, if the entire US had a 5/2 tier for $20, 10/5 for $30, 20/10 for $40 and 50/20 for $50...that would be awesome. Add in a 100 Mbps symmetric tier for $100 and a gigabit tier for $300 and you've got something truly awesome. |
