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Alias
May 9, 2013, 5:59:17 AM5/9/13
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On 5/9/2013 4:51 AM, Dan C wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:32 +0200, Alias wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/2013 9:13 PM, awouk wrote:
>>>
>>> 'What's most worrying is that the handful of companies offering
>>> high-speed broadband to American consumers may have little
> incentive
>>> to expand their networks, increase their speeds and lower their
>>> prices.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Yanking Broadband From the Slow Lane
>>>
>>> By EDUARDO PORTER
>>>
>>> It has been almost two decades since @Home Network offered perhaps the
>>> first broadband plan in the country. It was right after the 1996
>>> Telecommunications Act allowed cable companies to get into the
>>> business. Milo Medin, one of @Home's co-founders, still recalls the
>>> price of the pioneering service, offered to residents of Fremont,
>>> Calif.: $34.95 a month - $51.85 in today's money - for a maximum
>>> speed of 10 megabits per second. The memory inspires not a little
>>> frustration about the Internet's progress since then: 17 years after
>>> @Home plugged in its first customer, the residents of Kansas City pay
>>> Time Warner, their local cable company, $46.90 for a 3 Mbps connection
>>> and $55.40 for a top speed of 15 Mbps.
>>>
>>> `At that time the United States was a leader in broadband,' Mr. Medin
>>> recalled. Today, he lamented, `I don't see anybody arguing that the
>>> U.S. is anything but mediocre.'
>>>
>>> These days, Mr. Medin leads Google's effort to deploy superspeedy 1
>>> gigabit-per-second networks - 100 times faster than the 10 Mbps plans
>>> @Home introduced long ago - in several cities around the country,
>>> starting in Kansas City last fall.
>>>
>>> Most of the nation's innovation today relies on a broadband connection.
>>> Yet broadband seems to be the one area of the information economy that
>>> has not followed Moore's law, named after the proposition by Intel's
>>> co-founder Gordon Moore that the power of digital devices would roughly
>>> double every couple of years, radically expanding their capability and
>>> driving down their cost.
>>>
>>> `Internet access is constraining what people can do,' Mr. Medin said.
>>> `This puts American companies at a disadvantage. It puts Google in a
>>> place where we can't innovate as well as we could.'
>>>
>>> President Obama has made much of this deficit. In 2010 his
>>> administration introduced a National Broadband Plan that promised a
>>> path of rapid deployment of high-speed networks, offering 100 million
>>> households affordable access to connections of 100 Mbps or more.
>>>
>>> `We will not succeed by standing still, or even moving at our current
>>> pace,' Julius Genachowski, Mr. Obama's first chairman of the Federal
>>> Communications Commission, told Congress at the time.
>>> Yet most Americans are still stuck in the Internet slow lane, far from
>>> the frontier of our possibilities. And the main roadblock remains much
>>> the same as it has been for years: a lack of competition.
>>>
>>> Last week, President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler, a veteran lobbyist
>>> for the telecommunications industry, to succeed Mr. Genachowski. He has
>>> his job cut out for him: achieving fast universal broadband requires
>>> figuring out how to shake up the oligopolies that run the nation's
>>> high-speed Internet.
>>>
>>> There has been progress lately. The F.C.C. points out that more
>>> fiber-optic cable has been laid in the United States than in Europe in
>>> the last two years. According to Akamai, the nation's average broadband
>>> download speed is about 7.4 Mbps per second, about twice as fast as it
>>> was two years ago. This puts the nation in eighth place in the world,
>>> up from 22nd in 2009.
>>>
>>> Still, speeds in the United States remain behind those in the world's
>>> most connected countries, like South Korea, Japan and Switzerland.
>>> Equally importantly, American broadband, at an average price of $6.14
>>> per Mbps, is more expensive than in most other developed nations.
>>>
>>> This has little to do with the actual cost of moving bits. The price of
>>> transporting data wholesale across the Internet has fallen to about
>>> $1.57 per Mbps, down from $1,200 when Mr. Medin was helping start
>>> @Home. And high prices discourage Americans from opting for higher
>>> speeds. Though 10 Mbps broadband is available in 90 percent of homes
>>> around the country, and four out of five homes have access to 100 Mbps
>>> service, last year only 28 percent of homes that had access to
>>> broadband at a speed above 6 Mbps actually bought it.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
>>>
>>>
>> I have 65 Mbps and soon to get 100.
>
> Sure you do, Aliass.
Grow the fuck up, kid.
> Sure you do.
http://testvelocidad.eu/banner/201305/2r9qv-1ij2.jpg
>
> <CHORTLE>
>
>
You're as right about my Internet speed as you were about Obama losing,
loser. BTW, I posted my Internet speed to you the last time you called
me a liar and you ignored the reply. Planning to do the same this time,
loser?
--
Alias
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:32 +0200, Alias wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/2013 9:13 PM, awouk wrote:
>>>
>>> 'What's most worrying is that the handful of companies offering
>>> high-speed broadband to American consumers may have little
> incentive
>>> to expand their networks, increase their speeds and lower their
>>> prices.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Yanking Broadband From the Slow Lane
>>>
>>> By EDUARDO PORTER
>>>
>>> It has been almost two decades since @Home Network offered perhaps the
>>> first broadband plan in the country. It was right after the 1996
>>> Telecommunications Act allowed cable companies to get into the
>>> business. Milo Medin, one of @Home's co-founders, still recalls the
>>> price of the pioneering service, offered to residents of Fremont,
>>> Calif.: $34.95 a month - $51.85 in today's money - for a maximum
>>> speed of 10 megabits per second. The memory inspires not a little
>>> frustration about the Internet's progress since then: 17 years after
>>> @Home plugged in its first customer, the residents of Kansas City pay
>>> Time Warner, their local cable company, $46.90 for a 3 Mbps connection
>>> and $55.40 for a top speed of 15 Mbps.
>>>
>>> `At that time the United States was a leader in broadband,' Mr. Medin
>>> recalled. Today, he lamented, `I don't see anybody arguing that the
>>> U.S. is anything but mediocre.'
>>>
>>> These days, Mr. Medin leads Google's effort to deploy superspeedy 1
>>> gigabit-per-second networks - 100 times faster than the 10 Mbps plans
>>> @Home introduced long ago - in several cities around the country,
>>> starting in Kansas City last fall.
>>>
>>> Most of the nation's innovation today relies on a broadband connection.
>>> Yet broadband seems to be the one area of the information economy that
>>> has not followed Moore's law, named after the proposition by Intel's
>>> co-founder Gordon Moore that the power of digital devices would roughly
>>> double every couple of years, radically expanding their capability and
>>> driving down their cost.
>>>
>>> `Internet access is constraining what people can do,' Mr. Medin said.
>>> `This puts American companies at a disadvantage. It puts Google in a
>>> place where we can't innovate as well as we could.'
>>>
>>> President Obama has made much of this deficit. In 2010 his
>>> administration introduced a National Broadband Plan that promised a
>>> path of rapid deployment of high-speed networks, offering 100 million
>>> households affordable access to connections of 100 Mbps or more.
>>>
>>> `We will not succeed by standing still, or even moving at our current
>>> pace,' Julius Genachowski, Mr. Obama's first chairman of the Federal
>>> Communications Commission, told Congress at the time.
>>> Yet most Americans are still stuck in the Internet slow lane, far from
>>> the frontier of our possibilities. And the main roadblock remains much
>>> the same as it has been for years: a lack of competition.
>>>
>>> Last week, President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler, a veteran lobbyist
>>> for the telecommunications industry, to succeed Mr. Genachowski. He has
>>> his job cut out for him: achieving fast universal broadband requires
>>> figuring out how to shake up the oligopolies that run the nation's
>>> high-speed Internet.
>>>
>>> There has been progress lately. The F.C.C. points out that more
>>> fiber-optic cable has been laid in the United States than in Europe in
>>> the last two years. According to Akamai, the nation's average broadband
>>> download speed is about 7.4 Mbps per second, about twice as fast as it
>>> was two years ago. This puts the nation in eighth place in the world,
>>> up from 22nd in 2009.
>>>
>>> Still, speeds in the United States remain behind those in the world's
>>> most connected countries, like South Korea, Japan and Switzerland.
>>> Equally importantly, American broadband, at an average price of $6.14
>>> per Mbps, is more expensive than in most other developed nations.
>>>
>>> This has little to do with the actual cost of moving bits. The price of
>>> transporting data wholesale across the Internet has fallen to about
>>> $1.57 per Mbps, down from $1,200 when Mr. Medin was helping start
>>> @Home. And high prices discourage Americans from opting for higher
>>> speeds. Though 10 Mbps broadband is available in 90 percent of homes
>>> around the country, and four out of five homes have access to 100 Mbps
>>> service, last year only 28 percent of homes that had access to
>>> broadband at a speed above 6 Mbps actually bought it.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
>>>
>>>
>> I have 65 Mbps and soon to get 100.
>
> Sure you do, Aliass.
Grow the fuck up, kid.
> Sure you do.
http://testvelocidad.eu/banner/201305/2r9qv-1ij2.jpg
>
> <CHORTLE>
>
>
You're as right about my Internet speed as you were about Obama losing,
loser. BTW, I posted my Internet speed to you the last time you called
me a liar and you ignored the reply. Planning to do the same this time,
loser?
--
Alias
Alias
May 11, 2013, 7:09:14 AM5/11/13
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another test:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2701165885.png
Note, I am using WiFi.
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Alias
May 16, 2013, 6:34:22 AM5/16/13
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Course, he's wrong so much it's beginning to look pretty fucking
pathetic. He predicted Romney would win, for example. LOL!
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Alias
May 17, 2013, 7:32:08 AM5/17/13
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Alias
May 17, 2013, 11:43:24 AM5/17/13
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scurrying under that rock of his.
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