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Posted on 08/10/2014 7:08:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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It’s where all the politicians live. Not surprised at all.
Why would anyone be surprised.
An unfortunate swath of Virginia has been invaded by DC bureaucrats
It is also where a lot of internet companies have servers and data centers.
It would be a better article if the author knew the difference between megabytes and megabits. The map has Mbps which is megabits per sec.
A better question is why Internet speed in the US sucks compared to the rest of the world.
It’s also much more densely populated. It costs money to build infrastructure and many people in the South are happy with dial-up, as many Freepers can attest.
Averaging internet speeds has little validity.
I have cable internet. It is sold in 3 or 4 different packages — depending on customer use. The slowest packet is about 1Mbps. I have the ‘preferred’ which was recently increased ‘up to’ 50Mbps and 250Gb of downloading. There are 2 more packages that provide even greater download speeds and accumulative download amounts.
There are still people on dial up and satellite. Most satellite offer only about 5GB of downloading per month.
Lumping all of that to get an ‘average’ is relatively meaningless.
the areas around Herndon and Reston have many organizations that monitor all Internet traffic
ans: legacy systems combined with a large, spread out population
Yep! My thought, too.
It reminds me of the Hunger Games.
I can't get over how much faster it is now compared to old mid-90's dialup. Download megabytes in milliseconds almost. Used to download Quinn In The Morning after work, a 17MB show took 45 minutes and don't blink or surf OR ELSE!
It sure surprises me, LOL. We’re in central Virginia. All we can get is Verizon DSL, which is barely able to stream a Youtube video. Movies and TV are absolutely out of the question. Our service regularly goes out. When we call for repairs, the techs know exactly who and where we are.
One of them told us that Verizon spent a couple of million to provide Fios to one of their execs, who has a lake home not too far from here. It was done on the quiet; no one else in the area was offered the service.
I just downloaded an old public domain movie of about 1GB in 4 minutes.
Regarding dial-up, in 1998, I started downloading a large zipped file — probably around 300 Mb. It literally ran 24-hours per day and took a full week to finish.
U-verse here. It is blazing fast. (burbs of Ft. Lauderdale).
I can almost see the fiber optic junction box from my house.
10mb file goes in 3 seconds.
A week for 300mb, phew. I used our local Free-Net at first but they would kick you off every 2 hours, you could redial but when the pimples got home from school, good luck—hello auto-redial! I about soiled myself willing a download of NS Communicator to finish before the time expired, made it by mere seconds—got another provider real quick!
Yep, the real unknown factor is the speed of the server you’re downloading from. Could fly or could be slower than Biden. Luck ‘o the draw.
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