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A Disturbing Revelation

Back when I was in middle school, I was an avid online video game player, playing mostly MMORPG’s and first-person shooters. Playing online games on a dial-up connection was mostly an exercise in futility. However, in 1998 cable broadband internet became available in our neighborhood. After a few years with cable internet, I started to notice something rather disturbing. My bandwidth speeds weren’t getting any faster, yet the bandwidth speeds of online friends (that I had met through gaming) from Europe (especially Scandinavian countries) and Korea had home access to bandwidth speeds that put mine to shame. And to top it all off, they were paying a fraction of what I was paying.
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<		 When I attended college in 2003, I finally had access to similar speed broadband that my European and Korean friends had been having delivered to their homes for the past 2 years. In an ironic twist of fate, though, I learned that my university was imposing a cumulative upload and download limit of a paltry 500MB per day. In any case, I was in the same situation I was in before—bandwidth that significantly lagged behind my European and Asian friends.
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>		 When I attended college in 2003, I finally had access to similar speed broadband that my European and Korean friends had been having delivered to their homes for the past 2 years. In an ironic twist of fate, though, I learned that my university was imposing a cumulative upload and download limit of a paltry 500MB per day (they said that that was all the bandwidth they could provide, but I'm pretty sure it was music industry reps pressuring them). In any case, I was in the same situation I was in before—bandwidth that significantly lagged behind my European and Asian friends.
 

American Broadband Speeds Are Second Rate


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