Cries in German.
Bandwidth is fine at 200 kbps
The real question is: what’s the packet loss?
Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That’s the main reason I haven’t bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.
Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
My Internet bill went up $5/month.
Every damned year
Getting paid by the letter? Why not just say 50Gbps?
I would guess it’s to appeal to the greater United States audience of readers, as at least in my experience most people live in an area where speeds are still measured in the hundreds of Mbps. This would allow for a more direct and distinctly dramatic comparison.
Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.
Minds me of the informal study where people kept choosing pizza that came in more/smaller slices because they thought it was more pizza.
The system has failed us. At least a third of us but, to have a respectable shot, a quarter of us must revolt.
A tenth of a Pound must be soo big!
You get hundreds? I don’t know anyone with that much. Although starting to see very expensive over 100Mbit options now, I use 4G as it’s cheaper and more reliable which is somewhat amusing to be able to say.
Not like I actually need higher speeds anyway.
Lol. I live in a small city that just got a fiber provider in the neighborhood. Their slowest plan is 500 Mbps up and down.
Never lived in a city, 2016 was when I moved to a larger town though and finally got over 10Mbit, got up to a whole 30.
I’m lucky enough to live over a business that allows me to use their Internet as a part of my lease, I do have 25Mbps. A marked upgrade from the non-business options in the area.
No, if they cared for that, they’d say 50,000,000,000 Bps
Fair enough. They could even do 100,000,000,000 Nps
That’s how you know it’s was written by GenAI
I don’t need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I’d be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
0.2 Mbps is sufficient to stream 1080p.
Check your packet loss
You’re getting scammed by your ISP. That’s a terrible value. I bet they have a monopoly in your area too.
Area? Try building. It’s written into the lease of the apartment. Even if you want NO internet, you still gotta pay.
You’re talking about the USA, not China. Internet costs in the PRC are much lower than the USA.
Ok. Forget price. A 2mbps connection does just fine for watching youtube. What is a 50,000mbps connection going to do for me when my internet activity is so minimal?
what need do i have for electricity if i can just gather some wood and make a fire?
You could watch two YouTube films at once. (No but seriously 2Mb/s is too low even for just YouTube. YouTube recommends 20Mb/s. And that’s probably assuming 30hz. So you probably actually want at double or more. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/78358)
You don’t need to pose that question because you aren’t getting a 50,000mbps connection, as you’re not in China.
You heard it here folks, you shouldn’t question something unless you are directly affected by it.
Thanks for always being there and all that you do Miles
That is a lot of propaganda/sec
the grand firewall protects from that
- Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
- You’re Not Immune To Propaganda
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
- Michael Parenti,
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
That is not a subtle deflection. The so-called great firewall is indefensible, as it would also be anywhere else it was implemented.
In other news….
Since the Two-State Solution post got deleted yesterday, I was unable to reply to your comment directed at me when I pressed Send, so I’ll paste it to you below. Ciao.
I’m under no illusions about Western imperialism in its various forms, nor about the slippage of rights Western societies have undergone over the decades, nor about the oligarchic tendencies baked into capitalism, because I have 20 years experience studying and writing about exactly those issues.
However, I live in a world of comparatives, not absolutes, and compared to those in the cities and especially countrysides of Russia and China, I’m incredibly free. Compared to Western billionaires, CEOs, and the politicians that they own, I’m not. When I say death to all tyrants, it’s a broad brush that knows no borders since the bastards can be found anywhere we look, including DC and China, among many others.
I protect no authoritarian regime no matter whether they pretend to espouse the myths of the free market or those of a worker’s paradise. They’re both excuses for a concentration of power, and having lived in various dictatorships as well as purported democracies, I know evil when I see it, and I see it all over.
And now comes the .ml ban. :)
