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Sandy, Utah Tops US Cities For Broadband Speed
darthcamaro writes "If you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed in the US, you have to move to Utah. According to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report, Sandy, Utah is at the top of the list for US cities with the fastest average broadband speeds, with an average connection speed of 33,464 Kbps (33.5 Mbps). Overall in the US, the average broadband connection speed in the third quarter of 2009 came in at 3.9 Mbps, down by 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, but that's not a major cause for concern in Akamai's view. 'The overall year-over-year decline in the US average connection speed was relatively minor,' report author David Belson, director of market intelligence at Akamai Technologies said. 'The larger year-over-year sample base may have contributed to the decline, especially as mobile usage grows.'"
They got broadband connections in San D'oria? Damn you, Elvaans!
Signed, pissed off Bastokan.
Seriously, can we please try to remember that this Internet thing is a global medium?
...perhaps at the same time, we can try to remember that Slashdot is an American site, and the majority of readers are American.
Sandy Utah has two ISPs, Qwest and Comcast plus the occasionally available WISP. Not a single ISP in the Sandy area offers speeds in excess of Comcasts standard 16Mbs high end package. It's absurd that some article lists the average as 33.3Mbs as I don't know a single area where that speed is available and I live in the heart of Sandy. There is Metro Ethernet available at the cost of multiple thousands but no one outside large business has it.
This apparent study of internet speeds is worthless and it's conclusions garbage.
I'm trying to figure out what part of Sandy has an average connection speed of 33.5 Mbps, as the article says. Sandy declined to join up with Utopia, and nobody else offers fiber optic that I'm aware of. Comcast's average subscription is most certainly not their 30Mbps nor 50Mbps offering (and even if it is, nobody actually gets that rated speed), Qwest's DSL doesn't go that fast, and... who else even *offers* internet service there?
What am I missing?
Maybe it's a typo for 3.35Mbps?
(I used to live in Sandy, my parents live there, and several of my friends live there. None of my friends know where this 33.5Mbps number came from either.)
So, according to this article, the US, the lone superpower now has at least 7 cities that have surpassed
the average Japanese or South Korean village in broadband speed.
Pour me some champagne.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
I used to live in Sandy. Comcast offers a 20mbit plan, and you can get a 100mbit link from xmission.
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One would assume someone going by "ThreeGigs" would want a faster connection ;)
When I buy a new game on Steam, for example, I don't want to wait for the 7GB download on a 1Mbps connection. (15.93 hours assuming I can saturate the connection.) If I have a 12Mbps connection instead, I only have to wait 1.33 hours instead.
But even if you reject that use-case (and anything vaguely similar), try having a family with two adults and three kids, all using computers and TV-over-IP and VoIP, on a single 1Mbps connection, and tell me if 1Mbps is still acceptable.
Then how about a recently published top ten list of the countries with the fastest broad band?
we can try to remember that Slashdot is an American site
In terms of ownership and editorial staff, yes, although not so much in terms of news coverage
and the majority of readers are American.
Last statistics I saw showed more than 50% non-US readers. The US made up the larges single block, but it was not an overall majority.
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Hey, I saved you the effort - go to http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org where you'll find that Americans comprise 47.1% of Slashdot visitors. While they are the largest single block, they do not comprise "the majority".
Please check your facts, you arrogant Yankee imperialist running dog.
Majority means more than 50%.
Alexa reckons 47% of Slashdot visitors are from the USA.
Majority means more than 50%.
Alexa reckons 47% of Slashdot visitors are from the USA.
"The Alexa Toolbar, an application produced by Alexa Internet, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website statistics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Toolbar
Hmm, yeah I'd totally agree, using Alexa to determine the viewership of slashdot is 100% viable.
Is that like having a speedometer for your speedometer, to see how fast your speed is?
that is odd, I was starting to think it was a British site. I keep on seeing a disproportionately number of stories about the UK government doing crazy oppressive fascist shit. Or may be there is another reason for that......
Discover Card also has a relatively large call center / data center there
I wonder if those sorts of users show up in the statistics
No it doesn't. Majority means the highest percentage
Actually, no. That would be a plurality. A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half the group.