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Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?

Posted by timothy on from the because-of-slate dept.

Anti-Globalism writes "The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidth, sometimes more, during peak hours. While these 'power users' are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load."

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  1. Re:Not so slow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "most expensive internet service in the world"

    According to the chart you linked to the closest on that list is South Korea with $.34 a megaBIT. I pay about $50 a month and have downloaded 50 gigaBYTES in one month. $50/(50 x 1024 x 8)= $.0001 per megabit. Which I'm pretty sure is lot cheaper.

    BTW I downloaded the Ubuntu torrent at 1.2 mbps. Which in South Korea would have cost me 700 megabytes or 5600 megabits at $.34 or $1904. According to your chart the U.S. is ridiculously cheap.