On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our ISPs here would like us to believe that 50Mb/s is blisteringly fast
internet speeds, for instance. As a *very* rough calculation (dividing
by 10 instead of 8), and there's handling and other things to take into
account, we know that's really only around 5MB/s, and that doesn't do
all that well in today's bloated internet, especially with multiple
things happening at the same time in your home network.
In the United States, you can thank the idiots in black robes in Washington DC for that. SCOTUS ruled two companies were enough to provide competition for consumers. So companies are allowed to concentrate power via mergers. Then the two remaining companies just carve up the customers and don't compete in practice.
Contrast that to somewhere like South Korea where 6 or 8 companies are competing for customers. South Koreans pay something like 1/4 that of US consumers, and get about 20x the bandwidth. A South Korean customer can literally download a 3.6 GB dvd movie in about 4 seconds.
Jeff
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