Comparatively speaking, broadband in USA stinks!

[TheJamsh]

For clarification:

this [the using of firewalls] explains why some ppl in bz2 are laggy buggers!

Or because they have a 2kbps satelite connection in the middle of China. 

and the rest...

do you know in japan you can complain and sue if youre internet connection is below 28mbps? i mean WTF?!?

[OvermindDL1]

Yea, USA's Internet connections are rather horrible compared to most other countries, and still worse then or equal to near the rest of them, we have just about the worst of all the developed nations (sans probably China).
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[TheJamsh]

well over here, Tony Blair promised to put fibre optic cables in everything. did it happen? i think not...

thats why i find it quite amusing when virgin tries to sell me a broadband package with a fibre-optic cable connecting to my phoneline. i mean WHATS THE POINT! theres no fibre optic cables anywhere else! plus ill also need a fibre optic converter of some description at both ends of the cable which just takes up more space, although not an awful.

so i can have about 10 metres of fibre optic cable which apparently will bring my broadband speed right up! they know about as much as the product they are selling as pcworld...

[Angstromicus]

What Japan and several other countries did right was give government aid where needed. Take for example the power grid, or interstate highways in the US. Now what would the US be like if all the power grids and high ways were proprietary and without government funding? That's pretty much what's going on with the Internet's infrastructure in the US.

[General BlackDragon]

who is tony blair?

[VSMIT]

I hope you're not serious.

VSMIT.

[Angstromicus]

Why he's... Count Rushmore!

[Feared_1]

who is tony blair?

Why he's... Count Rushmore!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair

HINT: He's one of the most important people in the world.

[bigbadbogie]

WAS one of the most important. G.Brown is now PM of Britain.

[TheJamsh]

he is indeed. and he sucks even more...

hence why britain is in the crap right now. i love being british and living here, but gah. our leadership should be sorted out.

[bigbadbogie]

You can talk!!

*imagines k.rudd dancing in a ballet*

Wait, its the TV!! AAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

[mrtwosheds]

he is indeed. and he sucks even more...

hence why britain is in the crap right now. i love being british and living here, but gah. our leadership should be sorted out.

While it is obviously entertaining to blame politicians for everything and anything, it is fairly clear that this particular turd that we are currently standing in is bigger and smellier than anything they could have excreted on their own. It is an international poop puddle of unavoidable size, it is our poop puddle, we made it, all of us.
Had any of them tried to halt the religion of ever expanding economic growth, they would have been thrown them out of office before before you could say "Sustainable economy and infrastructure's"
They can only lead where the people will follow. We have willingly followed them up the hoot creek of our own choice.
This poop puddle may subside, but there is much worse to come if we just try to continue on up hoot creek.

[AcneVulgaris]

Since I got my T1 I've noticed most sites you hit limit transfers to about 150kB/s.  Doesn't do you much good to have a faster connection if the other end is throttled.

For every increase in the home, the content providers would have to provide that * the number of concurrent users...which I just don't see happening.

[OvermindDL1]

A T1 max speed is only 1.5mbits/sec, which is only 192KB/sec, so that is near your max speed.
Everywhere I download from I reach my max speed pretty easily, but then again I do not download from places that only supply 150kb/sec, there are so many places that supply more for free, why would you choose a site that limits you?  Makes no sense to me...
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[squirrelof09]

typing with a psp...

om, that confuses me because the network administrator at our school say that the school is on a t1 connection. i've downloaded at school, and its average is 1.5MB/s depending on where I am downloading.

maybe he is wrong? what must they be running then?