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In reply to the discussion: This is how Internet speed and price in the U.S. compares to the rest of the world [View all]Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)My in-laws up in the mountains have dish Internet. Sure the D/L speed is only 4-5Mb/s and upload is in the Kb/s - that's just barely workable with all ad & tracker blockers cranked up so only text gets through. It's the latency & dropped packets, though, that really kills the usability.
The irony is that in 2000 the telecoms got paid an obscene amount by the Fed Gov to push out broadband everywhere. They took the money, spent the money but didn't build anything except new service to new housing developments during the boom. Now, 15 years later, with an additional influx of Federal cash, they finally put fiber all the way down the state highway my inlaws live on, all the way out to the coast. But there's no tapping off for the little people; the only endpoints are the city halls of the towns along the way.