The average right now in South Korea is 12Mbps. My connection speed is 1.5 which is the main speed my provider sells. A 100Mbps subscription costs $19 a month in South Korea, which includes internet tv. I pay $40 a month for my slow speed. But hey, that's the market in the USA. And the Republicans want to kill net neutrality because it doesn't enrich them.
I am not surprised that we are behind the rest of the world in something. But the internet? Now I don't need massively fast speeds, because I rarely download anything. But it probably affects the way my computer works. This is a new computer with a processor 50% faster than my previous, & I can't tell that it's much faster. Except that video is smooth rather than choppy, & it doesn't freeze up like the old computer did. But websites don't appear to be any faster.
The only time I have super fast speed is when I run Ubuntu off a USB stick. Because of course, I'm using flash memory, not the hard drive, which has to spin & whirr, while running all the programs Windows has. Thus, the processor speed isn't that important. So I don't think my processor is that important for that, & I don't think 1Gbps would improve on that. And frankly the ISP's in this country wouldn't be charging $19/month like South Korea, try $100 minimum. If that fact doesn't change we will remain behind the world.
I am not surprised that we are behind the rest of the world in something. But the internet? Now I don't need massively fast speeds, because I rarely download anything. But it probably affects the way my computer works. This is a new computer with a processor 50% faster than my previous, & I can't tell that it's much faster. Except that video is smooth rather than choppy, & it doesn't freeze up like the old computer did. But websites don't appear to be any faster.
The only time I have super fast speed is when I run Ubuntu off a USB stick. Because of course, I'm using flash memory, not the hard drive, which has to spin & whirr, while running all the programs Windows has. Thus, the processor speed isn't that important. So I don't think my processor is that important for that, & I don't think 1Gbps would improve on that. And frankly the ISP's in this country wouldn't be charging $19/month like South Korea, try $100 minimum. If that fact doesn't change we will remain behind the world.
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