yes
Why would anyone be surprised.
An unfortunate swath of Virginia has been invaded by DC bureaucrats
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.
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
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.
Lets see, the worlds biggest naval base, the entire northern corridor a mix of Feds and contractors, lobbyists, finance and defense contractors. All adds up.
My AT&T DSL connection is slow and getting slower and more unreliable.
I sure wish I had an alternative.
The thing is downright quirky.
I know AT&T has U-verse, but I don't think it is as good according to consumer reports.
The backbone of the internet has always been in northern Virgina (Herndon, Vienna, Reston, etc.).