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> if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90. This is the worst internet in america

> if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90. This is the worst internet in america? Wow. That is amazing! I'm incredibly impressed at how fast the worst place for internet in america is. In highschool (Class of 2011) I dealt with 5 mbps just because my parents didn't want to pay for more. It was tolerable as long as you didn't want to watch youtube in HD. Honestly, I have little sympathy for people with 12mbps.

auxym 9y ago
I'm in Canada, greater Montreal area. 5 Mbps for a bit under 30$ is pretty much the best deal around. Honestly it gets the job done. I can watch Netflix in 720p. I get the article, and entirely agree that internet, even broadband is a utility in this day and age. However, 25MBPS seems excessive to get email, file taxes and apply to jobs.
macintux 9y ago
If you read the article in its entirety, you'd see few have access to broadband even if they could afford $90 a month. Dialup sounds like the best most can get, although I didn't see stats on that specifically.
grecy 9y ago
HA! Go to Northern Canada. Right now you'll pay well over $100 for supposedly 5Mbps, but which is really only 1 or 2 at best. If you download more than 5GB in a month, you'll pay $25/GB for overages! And even better, there is only one telco to choose from! (I worked for that telco...)
- passivepinetree 9y ago
  The idea of metered connections for internet makes me shiver. They're likely going to become more popular in the coming years because they're too lucrative not to, but I will be resisting with all my power and pocketbook.
ajmurmann 9y ago
As others have pointed out websites have gotten much larger for no good reason. The article we all just read is apparently over 18MB. My internet also used to be much slower than what people in that town can have. However, the internet was optimised for that.
- BeetleB 9y ago
  >As others have pointed out websites have gotten much larger for no good reason. Yeah, but 12 Mb/s should be able to handle it without even noticing any lag. I have 15 Mb/s and it serves all my needs, including 1080p streaming.
- randyrand 9y ago
  Huge article even by today's standards. So the article would load in ~10 seconds under 12mbps, and thats assuming they don't have asynchronous progressive loading of larger images and such. - which i think they do. Not really a big inconvenience IMO.
Semaphor 9y ago
> > if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90. Wow. I was just in South Africa. We paid ~$115 for 10Mbps down (of which we usually got 4-6) and 1 Mbps up. With frequent outages. Oh and capped of course (not that the cap ended up mattering with those speeds)

auxym 9y ago

I'm in Canada, greater Montreal area. 5 Mbps for a bit under 30$ is pretty much the best deal around. Honestly it gets the job done. I can watch Netflix in 720p. I get the article, and entirely agree that internet, even broadband is a utility in this day and age. However, 25MBPS seems excessive to get email, file taxes and apply to jobs.

macintux 9y ago

If you read the article in its entirety, you'd see few have access to broadband even if they could afford $90 a month. Dialup sounds like the best most can get, although I didn't see stats on that specifically.

grecy 9y ago

HA! Go to Northern Canada. Right now you'll pay well over $100 for supposedly 5Mbps, but which is really only 1 or 2 at best. If you download more than 5GB in a month, you'll pay $25/GB for overages! And even better, there is only one telco to choose from! (I worked for that telco...)

passivepinetree 9y ago
The idea of metered connections for internet makes me shiver. They're likely going to become more popular in the coming years because they're too lucrative not to, but I will be resisting with all my power and pocketbook.

ajmurmann 9y ago

As others have pointed out websites have gotten much larger for no good reason. The article we all just read is apparently over 18MB. My internet also used to be much slower than what people in that town can have. However, the internet was optimised for that.

BeetleB 9y ago
>As others have pointed out websites have gotten much larger for no good reason. Yeah, but 12 Mb/s should be able to handle it without even noticing any lag. I have 15 Mb/s and it serves all my needs, including 1080p streaming.
randyrand 9y ago
Huge article even by today's standards. So the article would load in ~10 seconds under 12mbps, and thats assuming they don't have asynchronous progressive loading of larger images and such. - which i think they do. Not really a big inconvenience IMO.

Semaphor 9y ago

> > if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90. Wow. I was just in South Africa. We paid ~$115 for 10Mbps down (of which we usually got 4-6) and 1 Mbps up. With frequent outages. Oh and capped of course (not that the cap ended up mattering with those speeds)