Two-thirds of Americans surf the Web at less than 10Mbps

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       #30

    And if you're in Australia, 90% of you surf the web at less than 5mbps.
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       #31

    That's definitely right TanyaC, I am lucky to get more than 3mbps, with wireless broadband in a country area.
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       #32

    At home our DSL internet is 5-6mbs. Checking my iPad with 4G speed while shopping in local towns 13 & 25 miles away from home (pop 4,500 & 15,000 respectively) internet is 19mbs & 36mbs. Where I need the fastest internet, I can't get it. Where I don't need it, I do!
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       #33

    Agreed


    TanyaC said:
    And if you're in Australia, 90% of you surf the web at less than 5mbps.
    Agreed.
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       #34

    You guys should move to Poland. The competition here is so fierce with cable providers; there is literally like 10 in my area, they will literally call you up and ask what speed you have and if you would like a faster service. I currently have around 30/7~ internet, cable with around 100 channels ( I do not watch TV, but the other person who resides here does ) and phone with unlimited international calling for about 45 dollars a month. Now tell me that is not a sweet deal? I checked my bandwidth usage, it exceeds 4tb a month down and 400gbs up. That is on average.
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       #35

    crankypenguin said:
    You guys should move to Poland. The competition here is so fierce with cable providers; there is literally like 10 in my area, they will literally call you up and ask what speed you have and if you would like a faster service. I currently have around 30/7~ internet, cable with around 100 channels ( I do not watch TV, but the other person who resides here does ) and phone with unlimited international calling for about 45 dollars a month. Now tell me that is not a sweet deal? I checked my bandwidth usage, it exceeds 4tb a month down and 400gbs up. That is on average.
    We basically have 1.5 companies here is Aus. Telstra and Optus. Optus's share is so small it doesn't really count. With almost no competition Telstra gives customers the worst service they can. If they complain, they just keep charging them fees as punishment for reporting problems.

    There is no legislation protecting customers, the mediating body (The Telecommunications Ombudsman), is gutless and controlled by the ISPs. There is nowhere for us to go...

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       #36

    10Mbs? That's way better than my crappy 1mbs connection, all internet packages here are damn expensive. Consider yourselves lucky.
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       #37

    TanyaC said:
    crankypenguin said:
    You guys should move to Poland. The competition here is so fierce with cable providers; there is literally like 10 in my area, they will literally call you up and ask what speed you have and if you would like a faster service. I currently have around 30/7~ internet, cable with around 100 channels ( I do not watch TV, but the other person who resides here does ) and phone with unlimited international calling for about 45 dollars a month. Now tell me that is not a sweet deal? I checked my bandwidth usage, it exceeds 4tb a month down and 400gbs up. That is on average.
    We basically have 1.5 companies here is Aus. Telstra and Optus. Optus's share is so small it doesn't really count. With almost no competition Telstra gives customers the worst service they can. If they complain, they just keep charging them fees as punishment for reporting problems.

    There is no legislation protecting customers, the mediating body (The Telecommunications Ombudsman), is gutless and controlled by the ISPs. There is nowhere for us to go...

    </ENDRANT>
    Wow, I would be up at night climbing the cable poles outside my house *doing things* lol to get better speed.
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       #38

    There are still areas in this country that don't have service, or if they do it's probably dial up speed. My broadband is via phone line the most download I ever get is just below 4mbps and the upload is a steady 0.38mbps.

    I have unlimited usage for broadband and that along with line rental and anytime unlimited usage of the phone costs are about £36 a month. Some parts of the country do have fibre which gives better speed but that's not something that's likely to happen in the area I live.

    The speed I get works for me at present as streaming live movies or music and other high usage activities is not something I do. I do use iPlayer on the odd occasion to watch a program I missed and that goes for Sky player as well.

    My usage for a months broadband is usually between 10 to 20 GB.
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       #39

    crankypenguin said:
    TanyaC said:
    crankypenguin said:
    You guys should move to Poland. The competition here is so fierce with cable providers; there is literally like 10 in my area, they will literally call you up and ask what speed you have and if you would like a faster service. I currently have around 30/7~ internet, cable with around 100 channels ( I do not watch TV, but the other person who resides here does ) and phone with unlimited international calling for about 45 dollars a month. Now tell me that is not a sweet deal? I checked my bandwidth usage, it exceeds 4tb a month down and 400gbs up. That is on average.
    We basically have 1.5 companies here is Aus. Telstra and Optus. Optus's share is so small it doesn't really count. With almost no competition Telstra gives customers the worst service they can. If they complain, they just keep charging them fees as punishment for reporting problems.

    There is no legislation protecting customers, the mediating body (The Telecommunications Ombudsman), is gutless and controlled by the ISPs. There is nowhere for us to go...

    </ENDRANT>
    Wow, I would be up at night climbing the cable poles outside my house *doing things* lol to get better speed.
    Climbing cable poles wouldn't do you any good where I live, there are no cable poles. There's a difference between having faster service available but not using it and having no better choice.

    My guess is that you live in a city, which is why you have so many choices. Some of us live in rural areas. Where I live there is no DSL, no cable, no FIOS available because the companies don't want to spend the money to bring those services here since there aren't enough customers to subscribe for them to get a return on their investment. My connection is wireless (essentiallly long-range wifi), I have an antenna on the roof of my house that points to an antenna on a mountain on the other side of the valley from me.

    The US government wants everyone to have broadband available to them and provides money to ISPs to expand their service. My ISP has told me that they are in the process of trying to receive funding to be able to bring a much faster connection to my house. However, whenever I ask for a time frame as to when I will see that happen, they tell me 18-24 months (they've been telling me this for at least 18 months now) so I'm not counting on it anytime soon.
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