Stupid slow speeds in the US (DSL/FioS/Cable)

[ohgood]

I was talking with a few buddies in Japan, China, and a couple other places and they were watching two live TV streams. In HD. On their computers. At once.

So we did a little traceroute  ... oh smokes. Latency is only half of it. Then there is "UP TO" speeds advertised here, which never are...

Guys in Japan, China, etc have 30/30 Mbps UP and DOWN, not 'connection' that is advertised here in the US. Oh, and in the US, UP and DOWN speeds are only 1/10th - 1/20th the advertised.

Why can't the ISP's in the US get off their lazy asses and give us fast connections  ? Seems like it would be beneficial to everyone. They could charge tons more, we would have decent specs.

:|

[08GSSteve]

LOL you guys have light speed internet compared to us here in australia....think yourselves lucky

[Paulcet]

A co-worker of mine used to work for a company that made machines that made optical filters.  The filter is a tiny piece of glass that would sit in front of a strand of fiber-optic cable which had been split off of a fiber feed. The fiber feed carries many channels of data, one channel per color of light.  The fiber I'm talking about is a SINGLE STRAND!  The manufacturer of the machines had more orders than they could handle.  High speed data was going to be a commodity--Cheap!  This was just 5 years ago or so.  Then one day the orders for the machines were canceled.  Millions of dollars of filter making machines in various states of assembly were scrapped.  Somebody didn't want true high speed data to be cheap.

[08GSSteve]

Yea Australia has been talking about high speed internet for some time now but at long lst the Rudd government is building the worlds equal fast high speed broadband @100mb/s where as our highest speed atm is 24mb/s.  Problem is though that once we get our superfast highspeed 100mb/s those other countries running 100mb/s will be upgrading to I hear 1000mb/sec.

As fast as you upgrade something else comes along.

[TonyKZ1]

Ha! I'd be happy to even get DSL or Cable internet out to my house. I'm still on "wanna-be 56k" dial-up which usually works out to 21-33k. Try to watch even you-tube on that, let along actually download a webpage or something. However I've read from other site and people that we're quite a bit behind other countries on hi-speed access. Which is why I do most of my hi-speed downloading needs at work. 
Tony