US ranks fourteenth in global Internet speed standings

30/15 Mbps with Fairpoint for $40 here in New Hampshire, USA. Well above the average... =)
 
USD. 24 per month for 40 kpbs ( INDONESIA ) ... claimed "BROADBAND SERVICE"
 
The second graph is really sorta ridiculous. Since when is Hong Kong a country? Most of those in the "top 10" are smaller then California. Show the average mbps for the whole country of China. I wonder what the average speeds are in San Fran, New York or LA, those would have been a better comparison or at least equal to the size of the ones in the "top ten". It's like saying America has the cheapest cars, slowest cars...but here's the top ten list: Italy, Munich, Crewe, etc...

Yes, the US isn't running fiber optic cable through out all of Alaska or Bayou's just yet. But since when do Eskimo's and Hill Billies need internet?

I have 40mbps service in Portland, OR, cost me 70ish, which is a lot faster then the "US average". But in a rural city, it is average.
 
technochicken said:
I'm helping to pull that average down. I usually get 1.8 to 2.4 mb/s. We're upgrading to 12 mb/s soon though.

Maybe my math is off but you are usually getting 1.8-2.4 mb/s and you currently are on less than a 12Mbps connection??

Unless your line has a speed boost and you see those speed maybe for the first 10 second of the download something is wrong with your numbers son.
 
My bad. If somebody can delete the above comment, the quote didn't work for some reason...
Anyways:
70/20 Mbps for $18, here in Bulgaria
i know, im in the '3rd world'....
Same thing here, except for about 15$...
So yeah, long live UTP :>
 
Lots of frustrated racists commented on this news (thankfully most have been deleted). Here in Romania I pay 12 euros for 50Mps/ at least 20 external so when I look at the chart I couldn`t be happier.
 
I live in SK and I can tell you that the internet here is fast... Only if your accessing national sites. I get about 92mb/s up and down to Korean servers, but outside of the country its more like 2mb/s. I guess the internet here is great if your Korean... it kinda sucks for foreigners though.

I pay about $30USD a month (with no usage restrictions).
 
35MB's down 7MB's up only 5% of the USA has better internet than me lol
 
I pay 80$ a month for 1.6MB/s with a datacap of 450 MB.. It does renew every 24 hours... Satellite internet sucks b@ll$ here...
 
My internet is 12 MBPS download and 1 MBPS upload. Apparently I'm doing pretty well. Wish I could upload faster, though. And we're only paying something like 47 a month for it. With a 15 dollar connection fee, but for that price it's not bad.
 
As per speedtest.net, my connection speed is 97% better than the rest of the US. My average national grade is 95% and my global is 93%.

That's depressing, considering people pay ridiculous prices for broadband compared to the price and speed of mine.

That broadband plan Obama created is way too far off. By the time everyone in the US has a decent broadband connection, 1Gbps will be available to people who can afford it. So sad.
 
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