Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband

Ant writes "Broadband Reports has a story on broadband services among countries including United States falling behind: 'Bombarded with tales of South Koreans and Swedes watching high-definition soap-operas via 100Mbps connections, the media has apparently developed a nasty case of broadband envy. This Reuters article suggests the US has "missed the high speed revolution", while last week Business Week dubbed America a "broadband backwater".'"

High Speed Revolution

[UncleBiggims]

The High Speed Revolution will televised in the US ONLY.

In all other countries, it will be streamed in HD over 100Mbps connections.

Re:A concerted effort...

[SatanicPuppy]

Hey, we know its an unfair criticism, compared to small densly populated countries like Japan and Korea...Still, articles like this may light a fire under some suceptables asses, and get us better broadband.

So let me be the second or third in decrying the deplorable state of broadband in this country! More porn! Faster porn! We are a shameful tech backwater! We might as well just be banging rocks together, settling for these crappy 3 megabit home internet connections. You know there is a direct correlation between the size of your pipe and the size of your penis, which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!

I call upon all of you to complain to your senators about the tiny nature of our pipes. It's flat out un-american. How can we hold up our heads in the world? No wonder we're having to invade other countries to prove our manhood.

Meanwhile in Broadband Britain...

[thinkninja]

Our postal service can't meet their targets and we are beholden to BT for all our telecommunications. At the very least in America there is a sembalance of competition.

I'm mildly annoyed because a 72hr outage was caused by a cow (supercow powers) munching through some BT cable. Don't they bury these things?

We Failed It Somehow.

[jetkust]

South Koreans and Swedes watching high-definition soap-operas via 100Mbps connections

And here I am, watching high-definition popup advertisements via 32 Kbps aol dialup. Like a sucker.

Re:Size DOES matter.

[Anonymous Coward]

When he said "miles and miles of wasteland" I just assumed he was talking about New Jersey...

Re:Meanwhile in Broadband Britain...

[mccalli]

I'm mildly annoyed because a 72hr outage was caused by a cow (supercow powers) munching through some BT cable. Don't they bury these things?

Yes. The cow was given a proper funeral, with all appropriate honours. It was very mooving.

Cheers,
Ian

Back Hoe

[955301]

Tell your Dad that he will consider fronting the money to fix it, but needs to meet someone at the location of the compressor to see what's involved and where his money is going.

Then, after the meeting, where he says he'll call them back, your Dad gets one of his buddy's with a backhoe and some beer...

Hey, if it ain't broke, how are they ever going to fix it right?

Re:Meanwhile in Broadband Britain...

[darkmeridian]

You misspelled "honors" as "honours" and "moving" as "mooving".

Damn Brits.

Re:In the Great White North ...

[cyberwitz]

You smug Canadians with your low crime, affordable healthcare, decent isp prices, good beer, hockey teams that aren't owned by shady AOL jerks, ... Where do I sign up?

Re:A concerted effort...

[mike_mgo]

So let me be the second or third in decrying the deplorable state of broadband in this country! More porn! Faster porn! ... which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!

What porn sites are you going to?

Sicko.

Re:uuh....

[easter1916]

Since French is an official language in Belgium, it's politically correct in the US to dislike all things Belgian. That and the fact that you neither joined the "coalition of the bullied" and insist on speaking your minds. As an Irishman, all I can say is "Three cheers for Belgium!"

Re:Other countries do exist, you know

[LiquidCoooled]

But your internet downloads differently to people in the northern hemisphere.

Scientists discovered that all your flash animations and adverts spin the wrong way, and so halted progress on installation.

Regular cable and ADSL don't work without massive changes.

I was told thats why the crossover cable was invented.

[/tongueincheek]

Re:2 words.... land mass

[kaschei]

The land

mass per capita...

Interesting statistic... Enough to make you wonder how they measured it. Most of the figures we've gotten so far are in people/km^2 rather than kilograms/person.

their way or the highway

[gosand]

If the US highway system had been built using the same logic of those building the internet, we'd be paying thousands of dollars in tolls a year to move at 20 miles per hour around private roads surrounding the suburbs.

You've just described the Chicago suburbs.

Re:Don't stop incentives for new tech!

[nacturation]

If water was free in our homes - no one would even bother to turn off the tapp - "I like the sound the water makes - so I leave it on."

Water's free (ie: unmetered, paid through taxes) in my home and I don't leave the taps on. Do you know of any people who hyperventilate constantly because air is free?

Re:I wouldn't trade better broadband...

[Anonymous Coward]

So, you'd be QUITE HAPPY to have the means of communication DICTATED BY THE STATE eh comrade? Why, you COMMUNIST!

I, for one, welcome our new broadband overlords.

Re:Don't stop incentives for new tech!

[Anonymous Coward]

"If I can't make a profit off of something within a year, sorry I'm moving on to something else."

so, you didn't go to university then?

Re:A concerted effort...

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

You know there is a direct correlation between the size of your pipe and the size of your penis, which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!
...
Argument through fallacy is always the recourse of the weak mind.

Don't you mean, "argument through phallasy?"

Re:Small scale vs. large scale.

[thorgil]

ou could be in the US, ride on a train in a strait line for a full day, and never leave the country

Thats because your trains are so slow...