In South Korea the average household pays roughly equivalent to 20 USD a month for 1,000 Mbps of internet speed.
In America there are people who think a 1,000 Mbps is impossible because they're used to paying 20 dollars a month for 10 Mbps.
Also worth mentioning that many ISPs already have patents for technology that will allow them to discriminate against websites unless you pay extra.
Most trustworthy people I swear.
"We promise we won't throttle your internet, we just want to be able to have the ability to if we wanted to...BUT, we PROMISE we won't."
also google fiber offered 1 gigabit internet but ISPs hated having to compete so they bribed local officials to make it so Google couldn't lay cable
and google said fuck this shit so they slowed their fiber optic plans
and these fucking retards think that removing net neutrality will make this better somehow? Because if you live in kansas city before google fiber ur internet was 1 mbps. After google fiber it's 600 mpbs
what a fucking world we live in
We literally could have gigabit internet in every major city but comcast/time warner/cox cable do not want to improve their infrastructure
look at kansas city. There was 1 real ISP there before google: comcast. Comcast's internet speeds were maybe 10 mbps if u paid 120 a month for it. Google fiber comes in and offers 1 gigabit internet for 70 a month. all of a sudden comcast want to increase your speed to 600 mbps to stay with them.
fucking bullshit
I don't trust them. But Net Neutrality doesn't help the actual problem.
What needs to happen is using the anti-trust laws to break down the companies into smaller ones. There's no competition and Net Neutrality doesn't create it.
But muh "America is too large to build an effective net infrastructure unlike those small Asian countries!"
net neutrality is a superficial bandaid fix to an issue and doesn't solve the long term problem.
Abolish the FCC and all the regulations it had and in the same motion add a temporary regulation that big telecom companies MUST split into smaller competitive companies under penalty of law with a monopoly tax that forces them to pay money into a government fund that helps startups in the field under a certain bracket with infastructure. After enough market freedom is allowed by choking the monopolies per the regulation remove all government regulation and allow it to operate under free market principles.
my post speaks for it self
except it doesn't because posts can't speak because they don't have vocal chords
have you actually heard anyone say that, or is it just an easy strawman for you to shill to Net Neutrality for?
It's 40-50$ here in upper MI even for the lowest package, and even then they double charge you sometimes knowing full well there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. They're the only company here, it's either them or nobody. I can only imagine what these fuckers are gonna do when the gloves come off after neutrality is gone.
People are idiots
Nothing surprising here
They have internet cafe's for a reason... to say 20$ is nonsense. I've played in korean servers plenty of times and their lack of knowledge about the outside world is insane. The only things they know are what they're taught because their internets block them from seeing other points of view.
internet in KR is cheap cuz land is so much more tiny than NA. We even have ISPs going monopoly in some regions within NA. KR ISPs have to compete against 10+ other ISPs in that tiny land, so demand vs supply curve actually applies there. Not to mention laying cables n stuff also costs less in KR cuz the ISPs dont have to do it over large area like NA.
In South Korea the average household pays roughly equivalent to 20 USD a month for 1,000 Mbps of internet speed.
In America there are people who think a 1,000 Mbps is impossible because they're used to paying 20 dollars a month for 10 Mbps.
Also worth mentioning that many ISPs already have patents for technology that will allow them to discriminate against websites unless you pay extra.
Most trustworthy people I swear.
Isnt south korea smaller than florida?
People seem to forget america is fucking huge. And full of 10s of thousands of different regulations due to it basically be 50 different countries.
"I trust Donald Trump and the US congress to control content on the internet, so I support Net Neutrality" - ya, count me out of that one.
In America there are people who think a 1,000 Mbps is impossible because they're used to paying 20 dollars a month for 10 Mbps.
Where can you get internet in the US for $20/month at any speeds? The cheapest internet around me is $75/month for 40 Mbps.
EDIT: Boulder CO area btw
the government literally gave all the ISPs millions of dollars to improve our internet infrastructure
and the ISPs used it for wireless
the FCC said it was ok though
Net Neutrality is basically a strawman at this point.
Actually proving your ISP is doing anything to your connection on purpose is nearly impossible, hence why there have been so few cases. Even up here in the frozen north, 2 companies basically control the entire market, and you have to fork up $100 a month to hit 150mbs.
Except you don't hit 150mbs, and they don't have to do anything about it. Thanks to shitty infrastructure they can't be fucked to improve, I will almost always get a whole 4-6 mb/s when downloading, get choppy connections when I try to play Street Fighter and even have videos struggle to buffer. Even right now the video I have open in another tab can't keep up. No one else is awake right now, I have 1 program utilizing a network connection.
I'd be more up in arms about this sort of thing if there was literally any potential to hold companies responsible, or entice them to make improvements to their technology.
Can I sue Comcast for being a bully?
So your point is that net neutrality doesn't do anything anyway
In South Korea the average household pays roughly equivalent to 20 USD a month for 1,000 Mbps of internet speed.
This is a complete lie.
