 Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 |  That's Funny
 Every time I pay my broadband bill I feel like I am being penetrated by my ISP. You know where. | |
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 |  morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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| |  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI
 ·Comcast
 ·magicjack.com
| Re: That's Funny When you look at the other countries on the list (with the exception of Sweeden really) most of the countries are quite small, therefore the population is more condensed, and everything is easier to wire. Its tough and not-money smart for US-ISPs to get broadband to rural folks in wyoming | |
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| | |  damonlabPremium
join:2001-05-02
Detroit, MI | Re: That's Funny If population more condensed = greater access to high speed connections, why don't we have 100+ MB connections in NYC, ATL, DET, SAN, SEA, CHI, LAX, BOS, etc? | |
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| | | |  espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
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| Re: That's Funny said by damonlab:If population more condensed = greater access to high speed connections, why don't we have 100+ MB connections in NYC, ATL, DET, SAN, SEA, CHI, LAX, BOS, etc? It's a combination of multiple factors.
1) Population density
2) Government built telecom (NTT Japan was government built, still partially government owned. Similar situation in South Korea)
2) Investors willing to take on long term (30+ year) debt
Within the US cities you mentioned you'll still find pockets of places with better access. A friend of mine lives in NYC and his building provides 100mbps Ethernet access to all of the condos. Out on the west coast you have services like Paxio.
It's not that the services don't exist in the US -- they're just not widespread. | |
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 mahony
join:2000-06-24
Modesto, CA | FCC to blame maybe now that someone else will head the FCC we will start moving up the list. | |
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| | 8th place isn't so bad. Hey it's top 10 at least. Our nation is not like a world power or anything.
/sarcasm. | |
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quatrixPremium
join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
kudos:2 | And just 5% of U.S. broadband users NEED faster than 5 Mbps | |
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|  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: And just 5% of U.S. broadband users NEED faster than 5 Mbps says YOU. | |
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| | Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: And just 5% of U.S. broadband users NEED faster than 5 Mbps Speeds greater than 5 Mbps are desirable but the bigger problem in the U. S. is the number of people who can't get 1.5 Mbps affordably without caps etc. | |
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| |  CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | Actually - I would put the number at 2% or less that NEED it - you are mentioning WANT not NEED and there is a difference. | |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Greed Greed is to blame for these mediocre speeds! | |
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| | blips
join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL | www.att.com
www.verizon.com
www.comcast.com
www.timewarnercable.com
www.fcc.gov
There are your sources of geed. | |
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|  jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Greed is also to blame for wanting faster speeds for spending the same amount of money (actually, most people would prefer to pay less). | |
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| |  John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:3 | Re: Greed said by jester121:Greed is also to blame for wanting faster speeds for spending the same amount of money (actually, most people would prefer to pay less). LOL
If you keep posting the truth comments like this, we're going to have to ban you.
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| | | jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Greed I know, I don't fit in here at BBR. | |
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| | Romania? How did they fair so much better on the list than we did? | |
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|  icp1Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
2 edits | Re: Romania? said by whatevrzclvr:How did they fair so much better on the list than we did? Heh, that's the one I noticed as well, Japan, Korea, Sweden, those I get, but ROMANIA? Please...
PS I only have 3 Mb  | |
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| | | | Re: Romania? Yeah no kidding, We are the US (well we were the US until Bush) so we should be able to take at least 50 billion dollars to focus on internet improvement.
It was a sad day for me when I heard my insight internet was being bought by comcast. Just as I expected it didnt take long for my connection to turn to junk. Insight gave us an unlaggy no packet losses 10.0 mb connection. Comcast gives us a 12.2mb but its LAGGY as hell. | |
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| jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | All those organized crime hackers need fat pipes. | |
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| openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | While not specifically Romanian, their surge in throughput may have been aided by: one gigabit per second speeds are also available through the new “Beeline” service, launched in the Ukraine | |
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join:2001-01-03
Chicago, IL | Can we get some Japanese style internet? Can we please get some Japanese style internet? | |
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| | | Re: Can we get some Japanese style internet? As soon as we shrink down the size of the US so that rural areas are gone or next to nothing.
OR
Increase the population density like crazy so that ISPs can make huge profit off subscriptions... then maybe they would consider reinvesting money to upgrade. | |
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| | BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: Can we get some Japanese style internet? said by swhitney2003:As soon as we shrink down the size of the US so that rural areas are gone or next to nothing. OR Increase the population density like crazy so that ISPs can make huge profit off subscriptions... then maybe they would consider reinvesting money to upgrade. That's a flasehood. Rhode Island is very small and has a higher population density than Japan( the size of Montana for reference ) or Korea and you don't see 100 Mbps. Not even close. Most MSAs have population densities of 400 people per square mile or greater and that's where most of the populaion lives and yet no broadband close to the sppeds in Japan. And even the largest MSA is no where near the size in area of Japan or Korea so size and population denisty is not the issue. | |
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| | XBL2009------
join:2001-01-03
Chicago, IL Reviews:
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| said by swhitney2003:As soon as we shrink down the size of the US so that rural areas are gone or next to nothing. OR Increase the population density like crazy so that ISPs can make huge profit off subscriptions... then maybe they would consider reinvesting money to upgrade. That's the lamiest excuse...why do people keep blaming the size of America for the lack of fiber to the home?
Every big city in the US could be wired with fiber just like Tokyo.
STOP with the BS excuses and get it done!!! | |
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| | | | | Re: Can we get some Japanese style internet? How about this. Money. Already apparent with Verizon's cherry picking of cities. No one wants to upgrade and spend money, they just want to use whats out there right now and milk it. Lazy American style. | |
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|  Rogue WolfAte Your Homework, And Framed The Dog
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY | It would have to be installed by a giant transforming mecha piloted by a green-haired girl in a sailor suit.
...so, hey, where do I sign up for that?
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| | I'd love to have a connection faster than 5 Mbps... Actually, I'd love to even be AT 5Mbps. I live in an older duplex and the copper in here won't support my DSL going up to its full potential. I'm getting, most days, somewhere in the 3's.
-Adam
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | How will I sleep at night? Wow, 7 whole countries in the entire world have faster internet than we do. This is a catastrophe of epic proportions, how is a person supposed to sleep knowing that?? I mean, its not like there are millions of more important things to worry about these days, right? 
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|  JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
kudos:2 | Delaware Baby! Yeah yeah! The 1st state!
20/5 FIOS here...
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| | | | Re: Delaware Baby! 26% of broadband of users on connections greater than 5 Mbps.
And with all the people that access to ComCrap's "awsome speeds" only 26% of users have over 5Mbps. Could that be because, as I have said many times before, MOST people simply DON'T NEED super high speed internet? Granted, many can't get it but if you listen to ComCrap Rick, DOCSIS 3 and FIOS can't get here soon enough becuase the whole country MUST HAVE 100Gbps in order to survive. | |
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| |  jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | said by JeepMatt:Yeah yeah! The 1st state! 20/5 FIOS here... That armpit of the Northeast? I thought Delaware being a state was just a front. Isn't it just a giant toll booth for people driving through?
The day that will live in infamy was December 7th. Isn't that the date that Delaware became a state? I think somebody got the year confused. | |
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| | Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Sure Wilmington may have them but I wonder if southern Delaware has the high speeds? | |
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| | | Re: How will I sleep at night?
Indeed. This whole financial mess is because of our slow interwebs. I'd go back to dialup in a second to have an economy like the 90s.
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| | With all these caps coming... ...broadband faster than 5Mbps will be useless. | |
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1 edit | bell canada ohhhh bell canada
you make our net not free
ohhhh bell canada
you slow our net with glee
ohhhh bell canada
we pissssss onnnn theeeeEEEE
wheres canada as not one ISP can say we have 5 megabit if they throttle us down for 10 hrs a day, that means canada would not appear on that list as averaged no one in canada has 5 megabit internet.
and a cap on all accounts faster then 5 megabit
remember a 5 5megabit unlimited = 1300GB
japans 1 gigabit has a restriction on downloads that = 900GB
that means hte best account you can get in the world is SLOWER then YESTERDAYS 5megabit unlimited
OMG LET THE STUPIDITY ROLL | |
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| | Grumpy old man speaks Well in my day sonny we didn't have broadband. I remember 28.8kb modems and when 52kb came out boy we sure thought we were in hog heaven. It would take several seconds to download a picture of a neekid girl and we were darn happy just for that.
Now peoples have these new fangled broadband things and aren't happy with 1M down. Times are much easier now. | |
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| blips
join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL | Re: Grumpy old man speaks said by phoneboy3 :
Well in my day sonny we didn't have broadband. I remember 28.8kb modems and when 52kb came out boy we sure thought we were in hog heaven. It would take several seconds to download a picture of a neekid girl and we were darn happy just for that.
Now peoples have these new fangled broadband things and aren't happy with 1M down. Times are much easier now.
That is because we want the movie of the neekid girl. | |
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| |  djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
·Verizon Wireless..
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·VOIPo
·PHONE POWER
| Re: Grumpy old man speaks said by blips:said by phoneboy3 :
Well in my day sonny we didn't have broadband. I remember 28.8kb modems and when 52kb came out boy we sure thought we were in hog heaven. It would take several seconds to download a picture of a neekid girl and we were darn happy just for that.
Now peoples have these new fangled broadband things and aren't happy with 1M down. Times are much easier now.
That is because we want the movie of the neekid girl. In high definition.
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| Not surprising. Fast internet with VOIP or cell saves money versus dsl and a landline. Internet banking, internet tv, saves on cable, saves on sending mail, saves on gas, etc.
I blame the same idiots who bought SUVs and trucks for years, and NOT because they had kids or needed it, because their stupid and don't plan for the future.
The average American are sadly ignorant fools who plan for today and never think about tommorow much less 5 years from now. | |
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| | | Re: Not surprising. Thats because we can. Its also when tomorrow becomes today and we can't get what we want then we will bomb you other nations infinitely til we do. | |
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| | GOOD for them. Weeee... 
2500/412 | |
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| | But yet they want to cap and meter us come on. | |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
1 edit | WOW! I had a 5mbs connection back in 1997.
My 50mbs FIOS connection is much better, and much cheaper per mbs. | |
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| | | Re: WOW! I've mentioned this to you over at HDD, FIOS is merely the exception and very far from the norm. | |
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Thank you VZ!
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| | Romania? How......what?? Unpossible. | |
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| | Also... rated? or real? I ask because the speed I get is usually a bit more than what is advertised. | |
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