[Patriot777]

I know of the following types of internet in existence: public-domain, state, government, university, tech, science, space, military, defense. I'm not going to give specific names to some of these as it would be a LLSS scenario. There are extremely fast speeds, just not available to civilians, only to those with top-secret or better clearance.

[Zathras]

I was surprised to find San Diego CA all wired at DSL speeds.
I now have lived in two town with population smaller than 100k who have better internet service

[taxcontrol]

Any person in the US can have Gigabit Ethernet to their house. All they have to do is pay the local carrier to bring fiber optics to their house. If they can't afford that, they can make their own decisions as to the trade offs of speed vs cost. It is call the free market and it does NOT need government to interfere.

[MeshugeMikey]

he done gave us Our Obamaphone and caint give us no Obamanet??

[Buckeye McFrog]

Good to know that the guys at Los Alamos can download their Netflix in 1/8 the time.

[Red Badger]

The internet is like cars.
Some can afford Ferraris, while others have Fords and Chevys.
Some can afford 4G. Some can afford dial-up.

But everybody gets to work................

[Westbrook]

Here in NH, I’m half a mile from a cable connection, so I have to rely on DSL.

Our DSL was great, until the geniuses in Concord decided that a fly-by-night, seat-of-the-pants, shoestring-operation should be given the communications franchise for the whole state.

Verizon out, Fairpoint in.

Now when communications equipment breaks, it stays broken.

I’m thinking of going to satellite, because the on-again-off-again, 1 Mb connection is extremely frustrating to use.

The only time we can see HD is if we rent a DVD.

[TomGuy]

I live in a town of about 14k population.

I got cable + Internet in late 2003. The speed was 1 Mbps and it cost around $35. Not long after, the cable company increased the speed to 4 Mbps.

Periodically (2x per year until the last 2 years) the cable co would raise the rate a $1 to $3. Occasionally, they would increase the speed, too.

About 2 years ago I had to buy a new modem because they had increased their speed, but in order to access it, I needed a DOCSIS 3.0 and I had a 2.0.

Last year, they increased the price and the speed. I now have around 50 Mbps at $65.

The advantage with cable Internet is that my preferred-level service also allows me 250 Gb of download/upload, so video streaming (Netflix, youtube, etc.) is no problem. I seldom exceed 100 Gb of downoad/uploads.

[Fresh Wind]

How could people possibly have survived in the dark ages of dial-up?

[tophat9000]

As a network engineer I am amazed at the stupid of articles like this... ..

people....the “Internet” is a collection on data path for data to travel from you to the other device/ server you want to pull data from or push data too...your only as fast as the slowest segment of that path....and that path is dynamic.. it changes, it get congested and your sharing with others people.. and your not going the same place ever time.. it your roadway between your and anywhere else.. so why the focus on the last mile from your driveway to the street cornet as being the place your bogged down in your daily little Internet commute

Everyone seem to think the “last mile” is their speed to everything....

It like thinking changing your Ethernet interface to the Internet from 1 gig to 10 gig will speed you up..

When truth is it will not do a dam thing if that not an the point your bound....it just one of a hundred possible choke points