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Not a US citizen so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems to be mostly country wide. A US colleague of mine lives less than 10 mins from our office (whic
by gizdan 5y ago
Not a US citizen so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems to be mostly country wide. A US colleague of mine lives less than 10 mins from our office (which is close to many other offices), and he is struggling to get anything beyond 20mbps.
- 1123581321 5y agoMedian download speeds in the US are generally 50-70mbps with a few outliers. Here’s a state map. https://www.pcmag.com/news/state-by-state-the-fastest-and-slowest-us-internet https://www.pcmag.com/news/state-by-state-the-fastest-and-sl... Cities will of course be higher, typically ranging from 100-900 for non-gigabit. Rural is more frustrating, and will hopefully be alleviated by the new satellite ISPs coming online.
- mistrial9 5y agoyou must not live in a city -- older homes and older sections of a city are very late to get physical upgrades.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y agoUsed to live in Philly. Had fiber gigabit in old building. Please stop making assumptions.
- 1123581321 5y agoI’ve lived in many kinds of places. But please focus on the data I provided. There are of course exceptions to the general trend of speeds being higher in more densely connected areas.
- quickthrowman 5y agoS/older/poorer/g Here is the fiber map for a Minneapolis ISP laying their own fiber: https://usinternet.com/fiber/coverage-map/ https://usinternet.com/fiber/coverage-map/ The unwired parts of the city are where poor people live, the wired parts are where not poor people live.
- asia92 5y agoit makes sense though, can poorer people afford faster speeds?
- kube-system 5y agoThat map is pretty close to being a population map: https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/ I think that speed by state is a pretty bad measure for conveying anything useful. Speeds vary within each state by orders of magnitude, depending on whether you can get a connection to a particular medium or not. I bet the full data set of speeds is not a bell curve. There are probably huge peaks for each medium, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the mode and mean are significantly different.
- 1123581321 5y agoYes, it’s not great, but I hoped it would serve to correct the misperception that such slow speeds are typical in the US. I hope I can find better data next time.