Average Broadband Speed in US Rises Above 50 Mbps For First Time (techcrunch.com)

Internet speeds are getting faster in the United States, especially in cities such as Kansas City, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, and Phoenix, according to a new Speedtest Market Report. The report, by Ookla's popular service, found that fixed broadband customers saw the biggest jump in performance this year with download speeds achieving an average of over 50Mbps for the first time ever. The result marks a 40 percent increase since July 2015. From a TechCrunch report: That average, 54.97 megabits per second is 42 percent higher than the same period last year, and upload jumped even more -- 18.88 is 51 percent higher year over year. This is all based on the 8 million or so daily tests conducted on Speedtest's website and apps, by the way, so the data is pretty sound. Comcast Xfinity took the honors for fastest speed on average, but its 125 megabits wasn't that much higher than the competition: Cox with 118 and Spectrum with 114. [...] On mobile, Verizon and T-Mobile are tied for first place with 21 megabits and change download speed on average, though the latter beats the competition by a long shot with upload speeds averaging 11.59 megabits. Poor Sprint, though.

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[johnsmithperson123]

Is probably the result of people using mobile phone data instead of DSL .

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[110010001000]

Me too. I live in Seattle and we only have 300 baud modems. We share them with 25 other people too.

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[Anonymous Coward]

300 baud modem? My family of 50 has to share a connection, which is just cousin Cletus shouting "one" and "zero" from the top of a telegraph pole and listening for a response from cousin Billy-Joe standing on Comcast's roof.

...and mirrors

[fyngyrz]

My family has to stack wood so we can emit a burst of one's and zero's with our signal fire. The baud rate is terrible, and we keep getting parity errors when the blankets burn through. The cost of enough cords of wood to keep the connection up is horrific.

To be fair, they did try to put a telegraph line in, but the Smith's down the road a ways cut and burned the poles trying to watch porn, and so that never came about.

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[Yvan256]

To be fair, they did try to put a telegraph line in, but the Smith's down the road a ways cut and burned the poles trying to watch porn, and so that never came about.

Well at least he did get wood.