So I ended up buying a cable modem...

[ALIVE]

Satellite internet has horrible ping even today. Nothing you can do about that.

you know i did not live there
they told me i tell you
what i now there was one the rich guy in the company that had the best internet from the rest

one time we used an emulator of arcade game to play streetfighter2 over the internet the person with the cheap connection was not possible to connect and play while the rich guy connection was able to make a connection and hmm have something like a game

3-5 sec game 3-5 sec freeze

so there was a difference on the quality of the internet inside japan
1 was playing from his office from work

so not all people in japan had the same internet there was variations

at 95 i was new in computers i had just bought my first to i was doing my baby steps to this world

 

[ALIVE]

Have you any idea of what is involved in laying down *anything* in the big cities?
Obviously not. There are tons of regulations before you can even begin to dig (or use existing infrastructure), then you have to obtain permission from all the land owners, and the list goes on and on.
What the big cities have done wrong is, not allow competition.
This is why you usually only have 1 cable company option, instead of having it open to all.
Blame your leaders who you vote for, for being short sighted idiots.

well in greece they changed the law and now all telephone companies can lay cable and some have started putting their own. So it was funny to see the same road diged the whole month from different companies to place cables.

but cables is half of the story because you need centers and that what they choose to put in the outer limits of the protocols thus having lousy speeds :whiste::whiste::whiste::whiste::whiste:

land owners?!?!?!? here they put the cables under the road so they have to talk with the country to take permission to dig in the road

but the short side in this country was that electric company, water company and telephone did not share their infrastructure so usually the telephone company which was going last was digging and boom the water pipe lol

 

[westom]

so the guy got the cheapest package for 10$ per month form 10mb line while i was paying for 28.8k modem connection 25$

Why was it necessary to pass a law to provide broadband? DSL (2000 kbs) was developed and demonstrated in 1981 (when modems were only 1.2k). Massive internet backbone had been installed in the late 1980s and early 1990 in anticipation that DSL and other broadband technologies would be available to all consumers. But monopolies refuse to implement it.

To obtain DSL, Microsoft had to sue Qwest to provide it. Contempt for innovation is that routine when legacy companies have a monopoly service.

A federal law in 1996 finally forced 'last mile providers' to provide DSL and other broadband services. They had to be forced to innovate - to implement a 15 year old technology.

How did the law do that? It said anyone can provide broadband service - free market competition. Suddenly broadband (that could have existed before 28.8K and 56K modems) was made available after 1996. Forcing legacy carriers to provide it.

Michael Powell intentionally destroyed the free market competition that had made broadband available. His stated objective was to make internet service more profitable for a few elite companies. He ignored a history of stifled innovation between 1981 and 1996; innovation that was liberated by laws enabled free market competition. And so America's internet providers are again refusing to innovate. No competition means prices (and profits) can increase for old technologies.

 

[ALIVE]

Why was it necessary to pass a law to provide broadband? DSL (2000 kbs) was developed and demonstrated in 1981 (when modems were only 1.2k). Massive internet backbone had been installed in the late 1980s and early 1990 in anticipation that DSL and other broadband technologies would be available to all consumers. But monopolies refuse to implement it.

To obtain DSL, Microsoft had to sue Qwest to provide it. Contempt for innovation is that routine when legacy companies have a monopoly service.

A federal law in 1996 finally forced 'last mile providers' to provide DSL and other broadband services. They had to be forced to innovate - to implement a 15 year old technology.

How did the law do that? It said anyone can provide broadband service - free market competition. Suddenly broadband (that could have existed before 28.8K and 56K modems) was made available after 1996. Forcing legacy carriers to provide it.

Michael Powell intentionally destroyed the free market competition that had made broadband available. His stated objective was to make internet service more profitable for a few elite companies. He ignored a history of stifled innovation between 1981 and 1996; innovation that was liberated by laws enabled free market competition. And so America's internet providers are again refusing to innovate. No competition means prices (and profits) can increase for old technologies.

different countries different problems
here the telephone belonged in the state and the employees were too lazy to do anything so even that the company was profitable as hell for decades they lay no new cables or upgrade their network

if it was not for european union we would still have analog telephone centers lol