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by axod 5612 days ago
Is the US really much better? As we saw earlier in the week from Netflix, slower average bandwidth than Canada... hardly any competition and so on.

If you want decent internet connectivity, move to Europe or Japan or something. They're rolling out 100mbps broadband in the UK.
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potatolicious 5612 days ago
Canadian expat working in the US here. The situation in Canada continues to get worse, and was always behind even the relatively pokey US internet providers.

It isn't necessarily about the size of the pipe, but rather unnecessary restrictions that negatively impact the way people use the internet. Here I'm on Comcast and have a fairy generous cap (250GB). If people start penny-pinching what they do with their bandwidth it will be the end of web-based industries as we know it.

More accurately for Canada - it never began. Folks like myself who specialize in web-related development, either frontend or backend, basically have no future in our home countries.

I hate to be so down about my own country, but it's the damned truth, though many Canadian developers are too proud to admit it. The software industry in Canada is anemic, grossly underpaid, and that goes doubly for anything web-related.

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Locke1689 5612 days ago
That graph was a useless piece of shit. I have a feeling there's a bimodal distribution there, but can't even get a feeling for it because the graph was so poorly made.

Seriously, a mean without a standard deviation? That's a failing grade in a first year statistics course.

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axod 5612 days ago
Fair enough, but my anecdotal evidence suggests broadband in the US is nothing to be proud of by any means.
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Locke1689 5612 days ago
I find myself pretty comfortable with 25/25 in rural Maryland. I could up it to 150/35 if I wanted.
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Swannie 5612 days ago
"They're rolling out 100mbps broadband in the UK."

Not quite yet. http://www.eclipse.net.uk/fibre-broadband/what-is-fttc-

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axod 5612 days ago
http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-100mb.html

Some already have it. (My brother for one)

Schedule of when areas will get it from Virgin: (Other providers may be different).

http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/100Mb-r...

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Swannie 5612 days ago
Thanks, I'd not heard about this (only been back here for just over a month).

This is excellent news, most places covered by the end of this year. Sadly Bristol is lacking!

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