My God is American internet awful

If you’re going to initiate a new rollout of tech, why rollout already out of date stuff? Just mandate fibre to the prem and 1 gigabit minimum from the start. It will take 15 years to complete anyway!

What about net neutrality? Does anyone remember net neutrality? I'd like that back please. I'd also like the opportunity to publicly flog Ajit Pai as long as we're dreaming.

How is that not already the standard?

Symmetric, right? Right?!

Didn't we already pay for the infrastructure?

Welcome to the United States, where consumers built the internet infrastructure that monopolies profit from and fight tooth and nail to prevent communities from providing high speed internet to its residents. Capitalism at its most corrupt: privatize profits and socialize capital costs and losses.

Gigabit symmetrical or GTFO.

I pay something like $110/mo for my symmetrical gigabit fiber line (plus static IP). This should be the standard, not 100Mbps.

why just 100Mbps? why not 250? that’s still pretty simple for them to do. also: net neutrality, dammit!

100Mbps?? NOT ENOUGH

$40 for 2Gb/s symmetrical FTW!

sometimes I really worry for the US

And at least 50 up?

I pay 30$ for 1Gb/s down, 250Mb/s up. It's usually around 40$ in the Czech Republic.

And? CableOne promised us 300Mbps, we already had 100. Then they went and renamed themselves Sparklight...

Guess what went out the window?...

I lived just outside of Tucson, AZ during Covid. When we bought our house, we were assured that xfinity was extending service to our house and beyond shortly. We tried getting the service and they sent out a truck to do a site survey. Xfinity said “lol no”. Our options were CenturyLink dsl with top speed of 3mpbs down and 768k up or a narrow band wireless repeater service from town. None of those were able to even support a 480p stream of tv, let alone the needs of having to switch to 100% remote. We wound up having to use a shitty 4g LTE router that used some sort data plan through AT&T. 150gb data cap and beyond it throttled down to 3g speeds. At the time starlink was accepting people into a beta but not as far south as we lived in the desert.

Luckily we were able to sell that place and relocate to a much better place. We now have municipal broadband with no caps and a static ip. They are building out fiber services to the underserved rural places around town first and then building here and I’m excited to someday have fiber.

I'm paying $25 fo a 20mbps ADSL, but I only get 16down/1up due to the cable degradation.

This is pathetic.