FCC Broadband Plan - Broadband for everyone within the U.S. (or at least an attempt)

[Teh Zip File]

[QUOTE=Roast Beast;20768143]No, in the US 10 mbps is good. 100 mbps is awesome.

[url]http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/01/us-broadband-still-lagging-in-speed-and-penetration.ars[/url][/QUOTE]

According to that, Maine is the 5th highest state in terms of speed?

But... I have incredibly slow speeds here and can't really get any ISPs... :saddowns:

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[QUOTE=unoriginalname;20772245]Roadrunner has a bandwidth cap? I never knew. I live in Ohio though, so things are probably different. Last time I checked, I have unlimited bandwidth.[/QUOTE]

According to a lot of places on the internet it has a 40GB cap, I don't actually know though.

[Kai-ryuu]

[QUOTE=MR-X;20771987]What is sad is while we're doing this, other countries like south Korea and japan have the fastest internet speeds in the world.

In SK the average internet speed is 60MB/s and costs 20-30 USD a month.
Japans speeds are very similar.

But people in the U.S pay upwards 99.00 USD for standard cable 10-20mb/s. It's fucking horrible to be honest, most people use DSL and dial up. It is sad that America often defines itself on having the latest and greatest technologies, but yet we can't even get internet down. I mean the internet was created in America.

Most of the blame can go to the companies/isps they're to busy cashing on high rates. Plus they're to fucking lazy to install the lines for it. They're holding us back really.[/QUOTE]

In Japan they have 100mb/s speeds for 3000yen ($30~)

Needless to say those are small countries this is not a small country

[KingTarkata]

I still have dial-up, this is good news.

Goddamn, all of you bitching about how your 100mb/s is too shitty for you. Try 28.8[B]kb/s.[/B]

[unoriginalname]

[QUOTE=Teh Zip File;20773101]According to that, Maine is the 5th highest state in terms of speed?

But... I have incredibly slow speeds here and can't really get any ISPs... :saddowns:

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According to a lot of places on the internet it has a 40GB cap, I don't actually know though.[/QUOTE]

In the summer of 2008, Time Warner Cable began testing a bandwidth cap of 40GB in Beaumont, TX. If testing was successful, they would bring the cap to additional cities.
Despite raising prices of its internet service within the last year, Time Warner Cable announced in February 2009 that it would expand its bandwidth caps and overage fees into four additional markets by the end of the year.
On April 1, 2009, the cities to have metered billing were announced. In addition to Beaumont, Texas, the cities would be Rochester, NY, Austin and San Antonio, TX and Greensboro, NC.
These metered based billing plans were canceled according to Time Warner "due to customer misunderstanding"
Caps would range from 5GB to 100GB with no unlimited option. The bandwidth will include downloads and uploads. If a user goes over, they will be charged $1 per additional gigabyte. Time Warner Cable announced they would provide a meter for users to monitor their usage. The new plan is set to begin in the summer of 2009. Currently, users have unlimited bandwidth usage. Time Warner will offer unlimited data for $150/month.[3]
CEO Glenn Britt justified the new billing plans, claiming the infrastructures had to be continuously upgraded and users would pay for how much they use. In an internal usage report, 10% of Road Runner subscribers use over 90% of the bandwidth, which leaves 90% of the other paying customers with access to increasingly burden network.[citation needed]
Facebook groups have been created in protest in addition to an online petition and a website dedicated to stop the movement, [url]http://stoptwc.info/[/url] Other websites have been recently following the Time Warner cap plans that were already following broadband internet providers metering and capping plans [url]http://stopthecap.com/[/url], and [url]http://www.meterthis.net/[/url] . An online petition can be found at PetitionOnline.[citation needed]
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and congressman Eric Massa, both of whom represent portions of the Rochester, New York market that would be affected by the changes, announced their opposition to the plan and even went as far as to threaten legislation to ban such a scheme. On April 16, 2009, Time Warner abandoned the plan.[4]
Copypasta from wikipedia. They were testing a 40GB cap in one city to see how well it'd work, and they planned to apply this to more cities, however due to opposition they abandoned the plan. So basically, you have no bandwidth cap with roadrunner, no matter what package you get from them.

[Teh Zip File]

Oh. Cool.

I'm not even sure if I [I]can[/I] get Roadrunner...

[DainBramageStud]

[quote]If a user goes over, they will be charged $1 per additional gigabyte.[/quote]

Compared to what some other ISPs do when you go over the limit, that's ... actually not that bad.

[unoriginalname]

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;20775793]Compared to what some other ISPs do when you go over the limit, that's ... actually not that bad.[/QUOTE]

Like how that one french isp charged per extra megabyte on an supposedly unlimited bandwidth mobile connection?

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There was a thread on it in the news section, but I'm too lazy to find it.

[Aurora93]

[QUOTE=Teh Zip File;20775573]Oh. Cool.

I'm not even sure if I [I]can[/I] get Roadrunner...[/QUOTE]

Used to have Roadrunner. Kind of sucked, IMO.

[compwhiziitothe]

[QUOTE=Lol Steve;20771795]Came as easily as it went. Maybe it was a false positive and this computer read it strangely, but it read as 1 Gb/s. Then it didn't. No rhyme or reason.[/QUOTE]

That's your Ethernet card speed, not your internet :downs:

[Lol Steve]

[QUOTE=compwhiziitothemax;20781570]That's your Ethernet card speed, not your internet :downs:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I figured that out too. But it used to read the actual connection as 1 Gb/s somehow along with the card itself.

Iunno, was definitely a bad register or something, I think that was impossible. After reading this thread, though, I'm really grateful for my 100 Mb/s for the price I'm getting it.

[Shogoll]

[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;20773187]In Japan they have 100mb/s speeds for 3000yen ($30~)

Needless to say those are small countries this is not a small country[/QUOTE]

Yeah Japan being small, it can maintain a country wide fiber network pretty easily.

Personally I'm on 100Mbps up/down for $40~ (4000 yen) monthly. It's definitely nice. The fact that the only real major internet backbone that runs through Japan goes through the Pacific is a real bummer though, people in Europe and Australia get way worse pings to me than people over in west coast US.

[Aurora93]

[QUOTE=Shogoll;20794883]Yeah Japan being small, it can maintain a country wide fiber network pretty easily.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'm kind of starting to see it now. It's not the population interfering, it's the country's size.

[Zoo]

I still don't have land-line broadband. There is no way I'm using that 9999-ping-won't-work-in-bad-weather satellite. My dad has experimented with it before and absolutely hated it and I believe him. So for right now I'm limited to this:
[IMG]http://www.verizonwireless.com/images_b2c/mobilebroadband/cards_image2.jpg[/IMG]
[URL]http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/?page=plans[/URL] (the first one)

My dad, my foreign exchange student, and I all share the bandwidth. We make do and I can game somewhat. I mainly play WoW because you can't even tell that I'm lagging. I usually have somewhere between 200-900 ping. Bandwidth usage isn't really a problem unless someone has downloaded a fairly large file (like anything >100MB will make a big difference).

[Nyaos]

Guys can you help me out here, I suck with internet stuff. Does this mean we will be downloading games from Steam at 100mb/s? Or is that different?

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[QUOTE=Shogoll;20794883]Yeah Japan being small, it can maintain a country wide fiber network pretty easily.

Personally I'm on 100Mbps up/down for $40~ (4000 yen) monthly. It's definitely nice. The fact that the only real major internet backbone that runs through Japan goes through the Pacific is a real bummer though, people in Europe and Australia get way worse pings to me than people over in west coast US.[/QUOTE]

Hey where in Japan are you?

[Roast Beast]

[QUOTE=Nyaos;20828838]Guys can you help me out here, I suck with internet stuff. Does this mean we will be downloading games from Steam at 100mb/s? Or is that different?[/QUOTE]

Probably not, I rarely get anywhere close to my max download speed with Steam (meaning the speed is limited by the Steam servers, not your bandwidth).

[Nyaos]

My friend on the east coast gets like 3mbs on steam, I get like 500kbs to 1mbs at the most.

[Mr_Sun]

[QUOTE=Virtanen;20766803]Finland already considers broadband internet access a civil right.

You lose.[/QUOTE]

If Finland was an English speaking country, I would move there on the FUCKING SPOT! holy shit, the great things I've heard about Finland. thinking about learning Finnish just to visit.

[sbradford26]

[QUOTE=Nyaos;20843198]My friend on the east coast gets like 3mbs on steam, I get like 500kbs to 1mbs at the most.[/QUOTE]

Set your connection speed in steam settings and see if that helps.

[that1dude24]

[QUOTE=sbradford26;20843326]Set your connection speed in steam settings and see if that helps.[/QUOTE]

He could also be downloading during peak times.
Try changing your server to Antarctica or some other stupidly low use server.

Also, this would be really cool. I live in a city of 60,000 people, and the fastest internet available here is around 3Mb/s. :\

[sbradford26]

[QUOTE=that1dude24;20843528]He could also be downloading during peak times.
Try changing your server to Antarctica or some other stupidly low use server.

Also, this would be really cool. I live in a city of 60,000 people, and the fastest internet available here is around 3Mb/s. :\[/QUOTE]

Win I can get like 50 meg or something in a village of around 5000 people.

[that1dude24]

[QUOTE=sbradford26;20843672]Win I can get like 50 meg or something in a village of around 5000 people.[/QUOTE]
Fucking Minnesota.
:c

[sbradford26]

[QUOTE=that1dude24;20843920]Fucking Minnesota.
:c[/QUOTE]

Wooo michigan and we should be getting google fiber soon since grand rapids is a few miles away. :smug:

[drummerundrcovr]

[QUOTE=sbradford26;20843949]Wooo michigan and we should be getting google fiber soon since grand rapids is a few miles away. :smug:[/QUOTE]

D:< I want! How soon is soon? a month? Goddamn connecticut... of course were a minority :c

[bobste]

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/754846793.png[/IMG][/URL]
that'd be nice if this plan actually worked

[B1N4RY!]

Oh fuck, I need to move to the states asap

[sbradford26]

[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;20847470]D:< I want! How soon is soon? a month? Goddamn connecticut... of course were a minority :c[/QUOTE]

Idk right now but our tax dollars are at least being wasted in a right direction of getting us a fiber optic network.

[Aurora93]

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;20847534]Oh fuck, I need to move to the states asap[/QUOTE]

Where do you live?

[JohnEdwards]

[QUOTE=Virtanen;20766803]Finland already considers broadband internet access a civil right.

You lose.[/QUOTE]
the US is much more populated and spread out, one reason ours is still on 1/10mbps as a rate, I mean hell every 100~92 meters you need a repeater, now keep that in mind on how big the US is, and keep in mind if one fails, you'll need a redunancy one, adds up. Unlike in smaller countries where people live on top each other you can have a shack running Base100-FX to it at about 1gbs then divide it up to alot more people then in USA where you would be running alot of fiber, and that stuff costs about 1.12 for 1 meter, as appose to .30 for 5 meters of cat6/5e

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and I haven't even mentions 10gb/s nics and switches