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It's absurd and real at the same time. My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symm
by thomastjeffery 3y ago
It's absurd and real at the same time.
My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber for $70/mo.
- pcchristie 3y agoI assume the parent comment is making the opposite point? I'm in Australia and I can get 90-100mbps which is very fast in this country - I'd say the average house gets 50-60mbps (guessing, haven't looked it up).
- thomastjeffery 3y agoThat's what I mean by absurd: 120mbit/sec is fantastic! It's also quite slow, depending on what you compare it to.
- cookie_monsta 3y ago> Melbourne here. We just switched to the 5G modem and reliably get 300 down, 20 up. The nanobots I can live with
- permo-w 3y agothose prices are crazy. it never ceases to amaze me how expensive life is in the US. that aside, I'd be delighted with 120mbi/s. that's just under 2 hours to download 100gb. it may well take you longer to actually go to the shop and buy a physical copy
- thomastjeffery 3y agoDon't get me wrong, it's a wonderful thing, and I'm happy to have it. I've lived a lot of my life on much slower connections, usually 10-20mbit.. Over that same span of time, I've seen my local storage throughout go from ~100mb/sec to ~6000mb/sec. The improvement of internet bandwidth for the average person is moving at a glacial pace. I'm happy to live near the middle of that spectrum; and I'm frustrated to be so close, yet so far away, from the bleeding edge.