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rcallicotte · August 26, 2009, 08:34:32 AM

http://www.speedmatters.org/content/2009report

Henry Blewer · August 26, 2009, 08:39:58 AM

I used the interactive map. It seems my county, Broome, in New York State is one of the slower in the country. I am not surprised.

rcallicotte · August 26, 2009, 09:53:59 AM

I'm questioning some of the results. After tooling through the many counties, there is one place in SW Riverside, California where the download speed is recorded at 68M. Hmmm. This is the fastest I've seen on the entire map so far.

matrix2003 · August 26, 2009, 05:07:33 PM

These results are whacky for sure. I am on a ten meg connection and that isn't even remotely what they report is going on in my "neck of the woods".
That's Eastern Connecticut talk as in "where my crib is" to others you might read that as "in my hood" still another variation is my favorite: - "where I live."

- Bill .

Henry Blewer · August 26, 2009, 06:08:04 PM

The result was accurate for where I am. Binghamton is rapidly turning into Bug Tussle.

Jack · August 26, 2009, 10:37:14 PM

try newzealand internet $:-\$

300kb/s download speed yeah it sux its the worst of any developed country in the world aye.
thankgod foor french people though lol they maybe putting a new line out of nz which wll really speed things up

FrankB · August 27, 2009, 02:28:14 AM

interesting. and surprising, to me.

I thought the US had a higher bandwidth than that all over the place. I wonder if there's a similar map for Europe somewhere...
Here in Germany, at least in the citites, you can buy a 50.000 Mb/s line for around 50 Euro. But it would be interesting to see these on an availability map like this.

Frank

Henry Blewer · August 27, 2009, 06:06:53 AM

The US companies are very conservative when it comes to capital improvement. In twenty years, if we can't conserve and build renewable/green energy plants, large areas of the country will experience poor to spotty electrical service. New Power lines are being blocked. New cleaner electric plants are not being built. There are small projects, but the whole needs to be rebuilt.