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East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA
Death Metal Maniac writes "The study, which was conducted by affordable-broadband advocacy group Speed Matters, found that the nine states with the fastest median download connections are all located on the East Coast. Rhode Island (6.8Mbps) and Delaware (6.7Mbps) have the fastest, and nearly triple the national median download speed of 2.3Mbps. Rounding out the Top 5 states are New Jersey (5.8Mbps), Virginia (5Mbps) and Massachusetts (4.6Mbps)."
You know who I thank for that? Hank Scorpio!
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Yeah, that's what happens when you live in your parents' basement.
Al Gore was born in Washington D.C. so obviously the internet is fastest on the east coast. The packets don't have to travel as far to reach him.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
RI can be covered by a handful of WiFi APs , so that's no surprise.... ;-)
It's the population density, idiot! It's easier for France to have better broadband because the people are all close together! Japan is even faster because everyone in Japan lives in Tokyo which has a really big population density! You can't compare Paris to somewhere sparsely populated like New York!
No, wait...
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East coast bandwidth should be fastest in the USA, I'd be surprised if it was fastest in Guatemala.
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It's not port blocking that I'm that interested in. It's the forging RST packets that pisses me off. Any ISP that injects RST packets into a communication fraudlently can't be called "not a bad ISP". That's like an airline stopping a non-stop flight from New York to LA in Cleveland and stranding all of the passengers there because someone in the back farted a little too loudly. You certainly wouldn't call them "not a bad airline", regardless of how many non-stop flights they had that stopped in Cleveland and stranded their passengers there.
I live in Jersey. If the level of service here is considered to be in the Top 5, the rest of you lot are screwed.
Bad Analogy Guy, is that you?
I don't understand this at all. Tupac said "Let's show these fools how we do it on the west side, cause you and I know it's the best side." All this talk about west coast is the best coast, now you're trying to tell me east side is better? That doesn't even rhyme! How do you expect me to believe you?
Actually, bad analogy guy is on the no fly list. They won't tell him he is on the list or what he has done wrong.
THey do tell him he can use the slower car to drive to an other state.
Wow, how can I get friends as cool as that?
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