Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.
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What's an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?
Heavily depends on where you live. I live near a big city on the east coast in a largely Blue state. I have 1 gig FiOS internet (up and down). In my area Comcast and Verizon compete for customers so our speeds here are alright. But there are plenty of areas in the US that have absolutely abysmal internet. Either because the area is rural so not much infrastructure has been built up or because the ISP in that area holds a monopoly on the market and doesn't have to increase speeds to keep their customers. I've heard horror stories of people being stuck with like sub 10mbps because there are just no other options.
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What's an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?
I'm getting 270 down and 40 up. Fucking comcast has a monopoly in my area, so I'm paying $120/month for it unless I want to go back to DSL.
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I'm getting 270 down and 40 up. Fucking comcast has a monopoly in my area, so I'm paying $120/month for it unless I want to go back to DSL.
$150 on Comcast monopoly for 200 down. I use more than 1.5tb a month and a static ip so need a business plan...
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I got mine, even though it’s 1 gb down 300 mb up, but it’s still rural fiber.
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$150 on Comcast monopoly for 200 down. I use more than 1.5tb a month and a static ip so need a business plan...
Hnnng, I'm so glad I don't have to pay for a static ip
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"America First" is one of his biggest lies
"They say America first, but what they mean is America next!"
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Who says it doesn't?
There's your answer.
Election results say it doesn't. Because they've alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.
You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.
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I got mine, even though it’s 1 gb down 300 mb up, but it’s still rural fiber.
taxes subsidized it and we get to pay extra
https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/ -
"They say America first, but what they mean is America next!"
What they mean was America first for the rich.
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I'm getting 270 down and 40 up. Fucking comcast has a monopoly in my area, so I'm paying $120/month for it unless I want to go back to DSL.
Lol.
Meanwhile here I am in the UK with my ADSL at 67MB down.
Lots of the UK is this way. Some of it is fast though.
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What they mean was America first for the rich.
"America First" was a slogan used by US fascists (like Charles Lindbergh) before WW2. The more things change, eh?
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Election results say it doesn't. Because they've alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.
You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.
Blue collar workers overwhelmingly bought Reagans plastic coated flag-waving bullshit and started voting against their interests consistently. By the time Fox News and talk radio rolled around they were completely fucking brainwashed. Still are today.
I don’t see how calling them undereducated buffoons is an argument for or against whether the Democrats have alienated them either way.
And for the record, they were only too happy to vote for flag waving white Jesus over the future of themselves or the country. They alienated themselves.
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I'm getting 270 down and 40 up. Fucking comcast has a monopoly in my area, so I'm paying $120/month for it unless I want to go back to DSL.
most areas have ISP monolopies, which is somewhat understandable given the high infrastructure costs etc. For that reason they should be regulated as utilities, but aren't because high speed internet isn't legally "essential" in the year of our lord 2025.
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"America First" is one of his biggest lies
chanted by the same people flying "Don't tread on me" flags. what a joke.
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$150 on Comcast monopoly for 200 down. I use more than 1.5tb a month and a static ip so need a business plan...
Wow. Every time I read about Comcast I'm reminded why I hate them so much.
I pay $89/mo for gigabit fiber and a static IP through a local ISP. Not comcast. Hopefully never again.
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What's an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?
I probably have pretty close to the top of the curve with 1140mbps up/down according to my plan. In actuality though my speed test reads at 864 up and 859 down.
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Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?
because the republican party has split the lower and middle classes with fear mongering and emotionally charged cultural wedge issues. e.g. abortion, gun control, "war on christianity", immigration, vaccine "freedom", etc etc.
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most areas have ISP monolopies, which is somewhat understandable given the high infrastructure costs etc. For that reason they should be regulated as utilities, but aren't because high speed internet isn't legally "essential" in the year of our lord 2025.
It's not understandable at all. The telcos took nearly a trillion dollars from tax payers back in the 2000s to get broadband to everyone in the USA....and they basically stole it.
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It's not understandable at all. The telcos took nearly a trillion dollars from tax payers back in the 2000s to get broadband to everyone in the USA....and they basically stole it.
…and they basically stole it
It's the American way. We're honestly lucky that it wasn't feasible for the big telecoms to build their own versions of the Internet, or there'd be several of those too.
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What's an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?
I get 100 down, 50 up, which is the max for my ISP. They're putting in fiber this year or next, so I'll probably upgrade once that happens.
