Why 23 million Americans don't have fast internet

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  • Опубликовано: 25 сен 2017
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    High-speed internet service is lacking in much of rural America. The causes are complicated, but non-competitive cable markets, misguided government funding, and infrastructural obstacles have limited expansion up until now. Despite the troubles, some rural Americans are receiving internet via both wireless and wireline systems, but the internet service many receive falls short of the 25mbps up/3mbps down set by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 during the Obama Administration. Receiving that level of service typically requires a wireline connection provided by fiber optic cable, which many rural residents don't have because the remote territories that would be served are hard to reach and require massive investments that private cable companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast aren't willing to make. If service is available, it is often much more expensive than similar service in urban markets. An idea for solving the problem might be to adopt the funding model similar to the one that helped expand rural electrification during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At that time, the government paid local electric cooperatives willing to do the work to provide electricity in their communities. Unlike electrification, there are many models for broadband deployment, including cooperatives, but also municipal broadband, private companies and other public-private partnerships. If Trump's government plans to spend more money on rural broadband, then following the model of electrification might help correct some of the funding troubles that have plagued broadband expansion up to this point.
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Комментарии • 5 тыс.

  • @cosminblk8359
    @cosminblk8359 5 лет назад +3197

    I finished this video in 3 hours

    • @titanicbigship
      @titanicbigship 5 лет назад +100

      l finished in 3 m

    • @davenn7597
      @davenn7597 5 лет назад +107

      @@titanicbigship may i borrow your time machine.

    • @bigman489
      @bigman489 5 лет назад +32

      Davenn I know this is a joke, but he probably just watch the video at 2x speed.

    • @alexd3693
      @alexd3693 4 года назад +4

      Linux is the best computer system yet only 0.5-2% of Americans use it.

    • @edward2364
      @edward2364 4 года назад +2

      Anubis stop lying you won’t even wait that long for a video

  • @15243james
    @15243james 6 лет назад +906

    "How does this make you feel?"
    Video actually buffers

  • @madmanmania7171
    @madmanmania7171 5 лет назад +2147

    The slowest internet there in America is the fastest here in the Philippines

    • @lgsdr
      @lgsdr 5 лет назад +143

      We're paying 1,500 pesos/mo. for 10 Mbps Internet with data capping. Haha.

    • @diablotry5447
      @diablotry5447 5 лет назад +42

      Australian internet speed is greatly exaggerated

    • @ijustdontcareanymore1022
      @ijustdontcareanymore1022 5 лет назад +4

      I'm sry for you.

    • @midluci
      @midluci 5 лет назад +34

      Pretty sure the fastest wifi in the philippines is the wifi are in the malls

    • @kevinfermin8907
      @kevinfermin8907 5 лет назад +7

      I'm sorry wot, my mom's parents pays a fortune for only 10 Mbps with lots of latency while we pay in the states gigabit for 84$

  • @Phlegethon
    @Phlegethon 4 года назад +396

    "As education moves online" in 2020 as everything moved online overnight.

    • @alexanderweaver6047
      @alexanderweaver6047 3 года назад +10

      I didn’t notice that this video was 3 years old until I read this comment and thought “how could students social distance in a school bus?”

  • @JameZayer
    @JameZayer 6 лет назад +1108

    When wasting food you say "An African could have eaten that."
    When wasting internet, you say "An Australian could have used that broadband."

    • @profverstrooid9401
      @profverstrooid9401 6 лет назад +37

      JαmëŽǎɏe Us South Africans also need the bandwidth, let's share!

    • @yourfather2786
      @yourfather2786 6 лет назад +9

      This is the greatest comment on the video

    • @aghastfont770
      @aghastfont770 6 лет назад +20

      "But hey! We are slowly improving our connection with NBN!"
      (By crashing it faster than the copper lines)

    • @foxybunny9115
      @foxybunny9115 6 лет назад

      The Internet here is 30mps yunno?

    • @marshmellominiapple
      @marshmellominiapple 6 лет назад +1

      As aussie could use this broadband but I'm not too keen on sharing my expensive interwebs

  • @smilessister3617
    @smilessister3617 4 года назад +243

    That loading circle makes me wonder if I should do anger management classes

    • @strix3d609
      @strix3d609 3 года назад +1

      Have fun connecting to it

  • @elliot7753
    @elliot7753 3 года назад +424

    I feel sorry for kids tryna home learn during corona with no/terrible WiFi

    • @HeenaPatel253
      @HeenaPatel253 3 года назад +16

      And teachers don’t care

    • @_dallas_
      @_dallas_ 3 года назад +31

      @@HeenaPatel253 “just have faster internet” it’s that simple 😂

    • @carlosca1501
      @carlosca1501 3 года назад +11

      @@HeenaPatel253 not really the teachers fault

    • @AryaWibu
      @AryaWibu 3 года назад

      still better than having no phone at all

    • @Lookattheworldaroundyou
      @Lookattheworldaroundyou 3 года назад +2

      we have kids who do remote learning in front of taco bell to get free wifi. That seems fair

  • @jocaleb0236
    @jocaleb0236 5 лет назад +231

    Half of Maine doesn’t have cell towers so imagine living without data

    • @Frank71
      @Frank71 5 лет назад +6

      Yeah....i used to live in "the county"

    • @yourdaughter2001
      @yourdaughter2001 4 года назад +3

      Frank E same!! I’m from Caribou

    • @KOTYAR0
      @KOTYAR0 4 года назад +9

      Didnt know US is a third world country, huh.

    • @hexagonist23
      @hexagonist23 4 года назад

      Dude, ever heard of satellites?

    • @jocaleb0236
      @jocaleb0236 4 года назад +9

      ApertureChromaKey Maine is mostly large forests
      Satellites don’t always work too well there

  • @kombi4002
    @kombi4002 6 лет назад +225

    sits next to router
    *takes all day to update an app*
    you know the struggles...

    • @Arlae_Nova
      @Arlae_Nova 6 лет назад +7

      it will actually be slower if you sit too close

    • @iambecomechaos
      @iambecomechaos 6 лет назад +5

      Oh hi, *Telegram*

    • @marcusfigved7593
      @marcusfigved7593 6 лет назад +1

      Forz//EnderEmerald find a way to connect eathernet to the phone 😉

  • @damienc1303
    @damienc1303 6 лет назад +494

    Living on the edge with 0.1 mbps here in australia

    • @damienc1303
      @damienc1303 6 лет назад +5

      Lol all it matters is the download speed really, atleast ur upload is better than mine XD

    • @annoyingguyoninternet1631
      @annoyingguyoninternet1631 6 лет назад +2

      LOOOL if you speed test to New York it would be *crazy* !

    • @cridenh2owo257
      @cridenh2owo257 5 лет назад +2

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @neltondeleon8470
      @neltondeleon8470 5 лет назад +24

      It's cause your internet is upside down

    • @jakem.4971
      @jakem.4971 5 лет назад +1

      Haha my street was one of the early ones to get nbn

  • @PandoraDaFoxx
    @PandoraDaFoxx 5 лет назад +561

    "Trump is outlining new broadband infrastructure plans."
    Oh hey, that's actually pretty co--
    "But he screwed it up."
    Ooooof course he did

    • @gilbertohernandez2409
      @gilbertohernandez2409 4 года назад +43

      Ya, that sounds like trump

    • @Adrian46T
      @Adrian46T 4 года назад +19

      Yeah, I was just thinking, lol. Reliably disappointing.

    • @ashinthehouse1710
      @ashinthehouse1710 4 года назад +1

      When did they say that though

    • @andrewzheng4038
      @andrewzheng4038 4 года назад +26

      @@ashinthehouse1710 the last third of the video was about how the FCC (a federal commission under his control) proposed lowering the benchmark from 25 mb/s to 10, which doesn't actually help very much at all because the vast majority of the US already has 10 mb/s so filling the rest of the map becomes way easier. However since legally its now 10, by just filling in the tiny pockets left in 4G (10 mb/s) coverage he can claim to have brought infrastructure plans.
      However, 10 isn't enough or anything more than casual web browsing. You can't send large amounts of medical data, stream videos (an increasingly prominent part of education), or a whole bunch of other things that would actually help the rural US get out of poverty. 25 mb/s is way harder, but is what is needed to be a significant improvement over what hte rural US already has

    • @MrHistory269
      @MrHistory269 4 года назад +1

      XD correct

  • @Nubbe999
    @Nubbe999 4 года назад +93

    98% of households in sweden has fast internet. Average internet speed are going up every year and are closing in fast to 100 mbps in average.

    • @gumlum7367
      @gumlum7367 4 года назад +13

      Stop it, your hurting my internet connection's feelings of 5mb/s

    • @winnerwinnerporkbellydinner
      @winnerwinnerporkbellydinner 4 года назад +31

      Sweden size: 450,295 km²
      USA size: 9.834 million km²
      Sweden population: 10.23 million
      USA population: 328.2 million
      Do you see how they aren't comparable?

    • @mortred4144
      @mortred4144 4 года назад +12

      @@winnerwinnerporkbellydinner ​ Big As mentioned in the video population density is a big factor. According to world bank population density report US has 36 people per square kilometers while Sweden has 25.

    • @AChannelFrom2006
      @AChannelFrom2006 3 года назад +9

      @@winnerwinnerporkbellydinner That just means it's more enticing for a company to do business in the USA. So it should be easier for a company to bring it to the USA compared to Sweden.

    • @ore6959
      @ore6959 3 года назад +1

      That's extremely nice. Hopefully you guys don't have to watch with interruptions from your internet :)

  • @keitatsutsumi
    @keitatsutsumi 6 лет назад +169

    The beginning of this video has been one of the most stressful I have seen

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement 6 лет назад +1459

    Usain Bolt is my internet provider. Fastest there is tbh.

    • @MN121MN
      @MN121MN 6 лет назад +61

      TMR Teckk so your provider has retired?

    • @tim_m22
      @tim_m22 6 лет назад +18

      Optus, Australia

    • @raremarkly9990
      @raremarkly9990 6 лет назад +4

      Jamaica has the fastest internet in the World! They provided us great speed!

    • @tim_m22
      @tim_m22 6 лет назад

      Burn Marks South Korea has the most fast internet

    • @sunrah2272
      @sunrah2272 6 лет назад

      TMR Teckk 😂😂

  • @ArpanDe
    @ArpanDe 4 года назад +37

    Are you kidding, i saw this video on 144 p with 0.1 mbps internet speed

  • @muhammad_ghanar3459
    @muhammad_ghanar3459 5 лет назад +559

    Africa: Hold my water

    • @aldomorales5893
      @aldomorales5893 5 лет назад +99

      What water ?

    • @hiploreal
      @hiploreal 5 лет назад +49

      They never got the water back...

    • @nguyenduyphuc3924
      @nguyenduyphuc3924 5 лет назад +21

      Uhh, there’s a problem, you got none

    • @ltk_xv72
      @ltk_xv72 5 лет назад +11

      Hold my diseases

    • @acca1461
      @acca1461 4 года назад +13

      Africa is not country so please don't involve everyone in your jokes

  • @Kavothizzlafduxbfd
    @Kavothizzlafduxbfd 6 лет назад +244

    Why 24 million Australians don't have fast internet (entire population)

    • @2aldredz788
      @2aldredz788 6 лет назад +6

      Taine Kingi not exactly true

    • @davidhoffman5789
      @davidhoffman5789 6 лет назад +25

      You had a plan for a national broadband deployment. Then some new politicians got elected to power and changed it to some odd combinations of old technology and lax requirements.

    • @Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un
      @Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un 6 лет назад +32

      *shhh this is supposed to be an American bashing circlejerk* World needs to not know Canada, Australia, many parts of Europe have the same issue.. would make the USA seem more reasonable! don't want that, do we??

    • @NebulonRanger
      @NebulonRanger 6 лет назад +7

      You know, the funny part is that most areas in Canada *don't* have the same issue, because most of us live in cities with extremely fast cable, fibre, or both. :)
      I live in Toronto, a city of 2.7 million, and the whole place is covered in fibre. If Bell can do it, why can't AT&T do it in LA or Verizon in NYC?

    • @tialaramex
      @tialaramex 6 лет назад +6

      The NBN was one of many bold but very expensive plans that saw Fibre To The Home as a necessity. The problem is, there's no particular reason to think Fibre _is_ a necessity. Imagine if that "Electrification of America" had assumed every home needs 115kV multi-phase supply, with huge high voltage pylons snaking out to every shack. The US Federal government might have bankrupted itself trying to deliver that. And for what? It might see some value if home Aluminum smelting became a thing, otherwise it's just wasted.
      25Mbps can be delivered much more cheaply with networks that take fibre only to within a kilometre or so of each home, and use existing copper cables for the "last mile" to the home at a lower speed. In rural communities this can mean costs are dramatically lower than a "fibre everywhere" plan, and suddenly it goes from a huge budget item to something very affordable and thus actually gets delivered.
      Fibre is a good idea for new installations. It makes sense to mandate that, say, house builders run fibre to new properties that are closer to existing fibre rather than doing whatever they've been doing since the 1980s. This is because copper is more costly to maintain over the long term. But that advantage is too marginal to justify ripping out all the existing copper and starting over as the NBN planned. On the bandwidth side, FTTH lets you plausibly do 1000Mbps. Which sounds great. But 1000Mbps is like that 115kV electricity supply, if you don't need it then you just wasted a lot of money for no benefit - and you don't need it.

  • @ianma4150
    @ianma4150 6 лет назад +221

    advertised for 60mbps, runs at 6 mbps. welcome to atnt

    • @yflyguy5194
      @yflyguy5194 6 лет назад +9

      Ian Ma AT&T doesn’t have a 60 mbps plan....they have 50, 100 and 1000

    • @ianma4150
      @ianma4150 6 лет назад +1

      close enough lol

    • @SK-zi3sr
      @SK-zi3sr 6 лет назад

      Haha ,didn't ya know that they can not be that fast

    • @jonathan21022
      @jonathan21022 6 лет назад +1

      that could be do to your modem and/or you router not being up to snuff.

    • @chrismarshall2766
      @chrismarshall2766 6 лет назад +5

      60Mbps is about 7MBps, that's about right.

  • @thomasfieschi-rose3705
    @thomasfieschi-rose3705 4 года назад +49

    5:24 ONE TRILLION????? He does realize that 1,000,000,000,000 is almost 1/19 of the US GDP, right?

    • @immigrantgaming420epic
      @immigrantgaming420epic 3 года назад +2

      sounds familiar

    • @geo34568
      @geo34568 3 года назад +4

      And they want to “save” the deficit.

    • @quarkonium3795
      @quarkonium3795 3 года назад +1

      I get your point and it does go against the whole Republican thing of lowering spending but it is not like the money is disappearing. It gets recirculated in the economy so it's not as bad as it seems when a politician proposes a spending bill like this so long as they're not over-printing money that will drive exponential inflation

  • @Andrew-on5zy
    @Andrew-on5zy 6 лет назад +95

    0:21 "Internet in nashville tenesse might not be as fast as it would be in NS, kansas" yet Kansas is the one thats buffering...

    • @MistyBrightdawn1997
      @MistyBrightdawn1997 4 года назад +5

      I noticed that too. lol

    • @krealyesitisbeta5642
      @krealyesitisbeta5642 4 года назад

      Yep differences...

    • @leem3793
      @leem3793 3 года назад +7

      He said it may not be as fast in Kansas

    • @Andrew-on5zy
      @Andrew-on5zy 3 года назад +4

      @@leem3793 youre right lol, my bad. still poorly worded on vox's part tho

    • @leem3793
      @leem3793 3 года назад

      Andy Rickfield yeah exactly lol

  • @lilplant2250
    @lilplant2250 6 лет назад +289

    Meanwhile, Puerto Rico doesn't even have electricity.

    • @raw7504
      @raw7504 6 лет назад +15

      Andrés Pola for 6 months....

    • @lilplant2250
      @lilplant2250 6 лет назад +29

      oscar trujillo It isn't that they "didn't chose" to become a state, the U.S. just hasn't done anything to change the "associated state" status, which is a 20th century way of calling what in the 19th would be called "colony".

    • @hackerofawesomeness
      @hackerofawesomeness 6 лет назад +20

      They want to be a state. The US won't let them become a state because they're poor and have infrastructure problems.

    • @jamesflores9456
      @jamesflores9456 6 лет назад +1

      i.e will bring the average down

    • @chickenofthecave1406
      @chickenofthecave1406 6 лет назад

      Byte11 That’s not true at all. Every few years (I think 5) an poll is held there that asks who wants to make Puerto Rico a US State. The answer is always no.

  • @kcwidman
    @kcwidman 6 лет назад +943

    I'm sitting over here with google fiber trying to remember what 10 mbps was even like.

    • @kcwidman
      @kcwidman 6 лет назад +131

      Not when you have a family of 8 in a 3 story house.

    • @Ana-vn1dx
      @Ana-vn1dx 6 лет назад +47

      the number of floors does matter, the further you are from your router and the more obstacles in the way drastically decreases your speeds. I have over 250mbps internet on my ethernet which is 4 feet from my pc, but if i take my laptop to the other side of my house on wifi that drops to a snail's pace of 5mbps. At that speed, it's not capable of supporting even one person watching a 720p youtube video from start to finish without bad buffering and wait time...

    • @Ana-vn1dx
      @Ana-vn1dx 6 лет назад +6

      unless you have a professional come in and cut up your walls to insert ethernet cables that go to each portion of your house from your router then that's not a feasible option for any person.

    • @yayjuiws4224
      @yayjuiws4224 6 лет назад +15

      You should be happy though, here in the Philippines, corrupt capitalists and internet companies, drains our bank accounts by requesting more money while internet rarely even goes up beyond 2 mbps

    • @andrewchon9094
      @andrewchon9094 6 лет назад +1

      Kai Widman :p

  • @florianplack2973
    @florianplack2973 5 лет назад +63

    *Next up:* Why 83 million German people don't have fast internet

    • @magic5101
      @magic5101 3 года назад +6

      ich brauch ne halbe stunde für ein 10 minuten video in 240p und ich lebe in hamburg...

    • @mcdonalsmcmenu2449
      @mcdonalsmcmenu2449 3 года назад +2

      ich lebe in so ein komischen Dorf neben Bielefeld wo man 3 MB hat

    • @magic5101
      @magic5101 3 года назад +9

      @@mcdonalsmcmenu2449 Bielefeld existiert nicht

    • @CryBlade
      @CryBlade 3 года назад +2

      Bin ich froh das ich endlich gutes Internet habe. 400mbit/s

    • @florianplack2973
      @florianplack2973 3 года назад +1

      @@CryBlade Du guter 😂

  • @eolar959
    @eolar959 3 года назад +9

    Oh how this video aged well

  • @ailurii
    @ailurii 6 лет назад +493

    This video suddenly really makes me feel grateful for getting to live in an area where everyone can get wifi. And then I realize America is really lucky for its problem getting to be slow wifi, instead of poverty or famine.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 6 лет назад +100

      tftm Lol really? Poverty and hunger are major issues in America...

    • @Cruznick06
      @Cruznick06 6 лет назад +43

      tftm Poverty and hunger ARE massive problems in America. The problem is that these can be offset by better educational opportunities and community programs. These opportunities and programs often NEED broadband service to function due to their remote locations. So by fixing internet access we can improve other problems.

    • @theAnindyooo
      @theAnindyooo 6 лет назад +6

      Agree! tftm, if you actually watched the video, they talked about how slow wifi affects health issue and education inaccessibility among many other problems. A lot of things become digitalized now and we depend on internet so much, that fixing the slow wifi could actually improve these social issues. Plus, if you live in US big cities you might not really acknowledge the poverty and famine that US has, but there are many rural area that aren't exposed by media where those issues are very present. Many living near industrial factory, not only face poverty but also health issues caused by pollution.

    • @haloman12300
      @haloman12300 6 лет назад +1

      tftm yeah, slow WiFi and lack of affordable healthcare is all we got.

    • @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS
      @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS 6 лет назад +3

      theAnindyooo
      But it isn't the function that allows starvation. That would be capitalism 😙

  • @WoogieKamikaze
    @WoogieKamikaze 6 лет назад +209

    Rural Nebraska. 1.2mb down .1mb up. Oftentimes doesn't work. I truly hate my isp. 170$ a month for this crap internet. The school doesn't have internet, medicade isn't accepted around here and sometimes you can get 3G roaming on your phones if your lucky.

    • @Bereft777
      @Bereft777 6 лет назад +16

      T Davis 500 mb down 50 up $80 a month

    • @vietle8157
      @vietle8157 6 лет назад +6

      T Davis cause no one lives there

    • @GranadaFelish
      @GranadaFelish 6 лет назад +1

      T Davis I get 1.5mb/s and 12mb/s on a good day and I live in one of the most populated cities in the world

    • @aviroblox6624
      @aviroblox6624 6 лет назад +4

      920-950 down and 35-40 up @$70

    • @GranadaFelish
      @GranadaFelish 6 лет назад

      TheAviroGamer I get charged the same for what I mentioned

  • @The_NerdGuy
    @The_NerdGuy 3 года назад +1

    Great quality content. Thanks.

  • @imkindahungry04364
    @imkindahungry04364 6 лет назад +373

    It's 2017! We need to stand up and fight for internet equality!

    • @bliVYT
      @bliVYT 6 лет назад +20

      imkindahungry04364 but first get yourself some food

    • @allardfreichmann3733
      @allardfreichmann3733 6 лет назад +19

      And so much more. For instance: the metric system, medicare for all, social security, payed vacation, an healthy environment, food and water, livable wages and human dignity.

    • @gomennasai989
      @gomennasai989 6 лет назад +1

      I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but if you are, I agree with you.

    • @elchungo5026
      @elchungo5026 6 лет назад

      imkindahungry04364 viva net neutrality!!!

    • @joea.9969
      @joea.9969 6 лет назад

      No internet at all!

  • @fireclaner8774
    @fireclaner8774 6 лет назад +413

    Paying $35 for 500kb supposed to be "high speed"
    I hate west virginia

    • @KJ110813
      @KJ110813 6 лет назад +26

      Fireclaner I have empathy for you. I have passing through West Virginia, can't imagine having to live there. :-/

    • @KJ110813
      @KJ110813 6 лет назад +1

      Fireclaner 🙈

    • @johannesjacome7539
      @johannesjacome7539 6 лет назад +26

      Fireclaner I pay around 25 dollars a month for 50 mps in Mexico...

    • @gulfermendi6367
      @gulfermendi6367 6 лет назад +17

      Here in london for £34 you can get 100mbps plus phone line

    • @bradirv
      @bradirv 6 лет назад +3

      In Leicestershire UK it is £17 - £25 p/m for 20mbps, about £60 p/m for 200mbps

  • @jake01756
    @jake01756 4 года назад +12

    0:12
    **real RUclips loading circle appears**

  • @rice5817
    @rice5817 5 лет назад +63

    This whole thing is pretty mind-blowing to me 😲
    As a Swede living most of my life in a city, I've grown up with some of the fastest internet connections you could have on both schools and at home. Later in life, Sweden had even started to provide those high speed internet connections to rural areas.
    Internet plays such a huge role in modern society, and it makes me laugh when you see these republicans try to "solve" the issues through dirty tricks / misleading statements, thus fooling their own people.
    In short, to me, this is plain and simple - they're trying to keep the rural areas without proper internet so that they can get more votes from the uneducated side of the republican voters.
    I would really like to see Vox do a follow up video on this to show the correlation (if any) between the access to high speed internet (broadband as per Obama's standard) and what political party the people in each area generally votes for.

    • @gavindhailwal3432
      @gavindhailwal3432 4 года назад +17

      stop tryna compare your small country to the 4th largest int the world

    • @casual_observer212
      @casual_observer212 4 года назад +7

      I wouldn't say they are trying to get uneducated Republican voters. I would say nobody wants to foot the bill. Not the government and not the ISPs.

    • @Batman-jc8to
      @Batman-jc8to 4 года назад

      Nobody wants to read that and thats just boring

    • @hajdjaahfjaj1398
      @hajdjaahfjaj1398 4 года назад +14

      @@Batman-jc8to Then why are you on this video? The point is to debate about the subject. Not say, "it's boring". If it's boring for you, feel free to leave the video. Otherwise, don't complain about boredom and debate alongside and/or (dis)agree with the subject opinions.

    • @HappyGick
      @HappyGick 4 года назад +5

      @@gavindhailwal3432 America is a third world country with a Gucci belt what you talking about. Your country has the most money in the world, therefore there's no excuse for not giving internet access to everyone there.

  • @aarondavis673
    @aarondavis673 6 лет назад +219

    The question should be why don"t 24 million Australians have working internet, period

    • @dog-ez2nu
      @dog-ez2nu 6 лет назад +25

      Because you're alone.
      Stuck with New Zealanders and overpowered Asian Overwatch players.

    • @nizm0man
      @nizm0man 5 лет назад +3

      Because of Telstra/Foxtel

    • @dougn2350
      @dougn2350 5 лет назад +2

      Does Australia have 24 million people? I'll have to look that up.

    • @ItzGiGz
      @ItzGiGz 5 лет назад

      I blame the Kangaroos

  • @blowme3684
    @blowme3684 6 лет назад +214

    Y’all saying yo WiFi sucks but I live in Alaska and only have 1 bar of at&t to work with

    • @izzylunaliam
      @izzylunaliam 6 лет назад +9

      we have the same in Maine

    • @canada2454
      @canada2454 6 лет назад +7

      That sucks

    • @AntiCaesarReal
      @AntiCaesarReal 6 лет назад +8

      Blow Me Rip my man. And I thought my internet was bad. It is still bad, but somehow it's not the worst.

    • @cridenh2owo257
      @cridenh2owo257 5 лет назад +2

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @justinegoeswild
      @justinegoeswild 5 лет назад +1

      Same in Minnesota

  • @bkzach
    @bkzach 4 года назад +2

    I went to watch this and got a playback error and had to reload it lol

  • @Valeria-th4ql
    @Valeria-th4ql 5 лет назад +2

    I live in St.Petersburg, Russia, and here we have super fast internet (enough to watch series like GOT online in 1080p without any delays) for super cheap price (~15 cents per day). But we live in constant danger of internet being potentially blocked by government - Chinese scenario or even worse :(

  • @zxaj
    @zxaj 6 лет назад +1071

    im paying $60/m for 2 mbps

    • @sexxychilii
      @sexxychilii 6 лет назад +97

      BlueЯose I'm paying $25 for unlimited

    • @green_universe
      @green_universe 6 лет назад +51

      I'm paying $50 for 20 Mbps.

    • @JustNel
      @JustNel 6 лет назад +43

      Lol I'm paying $50 for 100down 100up

    • @jordan_0914
      @jordan_0914 6 лет назад +28

      Wtf really ? My family pays $70 for 100mbps

    • @The-Atomic-Gamer
      @The-Atomic-Gamer 6 лет назад +33

      JustNel Lol im paying $25 for 1gbps up and down.

  • @rickjames5423
    @rickjames5423 6 лет назад +223

    Mean while in NASA' S headquarters they are kicking back and enjoying their 91 gigabytes per second wifi

    • @BudderB0y2222
      @BudderB0y2222 6 лет назад +16

      It's actually true

    • @markgigiel2722
      @markgigiel2722 6 лет назад +66

      It's NASA, they should. Only supercomputers can even partially use 91 Gig anyway. Even with a high speed connection, many websites are slow. It's only as fast as the weakest link. Our nukes are running MS-dos with 7 1/2 inch floppie disks. Not a joke.

    • @JermanRamirez
      @JermanRamirez 6 лет назад +8

      wifi speeds arent that fast. the tech isnt there yet. maybe li-fi.

    • @AndreiTache
      @AndreiTache 6 лет назад +12

      **rolls his eyes* Yes, think of all of the RUclips they are watching with that much internet!

    • @inter5123
      @inter5123 6 лет назад +7

      Rick James gigabits maybe but gigabytes not possible. First get your units right please before speaking on a topic you dont have experience in

  • @CariettaW
    @CariettaW 5 лет назад +14

    Australia's internet = 60th in the world. Thanks Rupert!

    • @windskm
      @windskm 3 года назад

      that's for wired access but at least mobile is quite decent

    • @celestial623
      @celestial623 3 года назад

      fox news

  • @AwesumBear
    @AwesumBear 4 года назад +15

    In the study you linked at 1:20, the image corresponds to a correlational relationship between broadband adoption and education/unemployment/poverty, not causal.

    • @aj-sz8mu
      @aj-sz8mu 3 года назад

      most statistical analysis is a correlation. they arent saying it is the cause, but that it could be part of the cause of those things. Correlation isn't necessarily useless.

  • @jeirobugarin1860
    @jeirobugarin1860 6 лет назад +127

    and I'm sitting here with a 5mbps internet that costs $65/month
    I love Philippines

    • @utryping
      @utryping 6 лет назад +3

      Jeiro Bugarin
      I pay like 100 for 1.5 down .8 up even though I live in the city

    • @ronnieDaking
      @ronnieDaking 6 лет назад +4

      um. You do know 300 million american still have assess to highspeend internet right

    • @carlphilliplucas3436
      @carlphilliplucas3436 6 лет назад

      not exactly as 5 mbps tbh

    • @jeirobugarin1860
      @jeirobugarin1860 6 лет назад +1

      Audous I mean come on people, why charge us huge money to get crappy internet
      we're poor lol

    • @jeirobugarin1860
      @jeirobugarin1860 6 лет назад +1

      Also, we never the promised "5 mbps"
      We only peak at around 500 kbps lol

  • @aidanrogers4438
    @aidanrogers4438 6 лет назад +654

    All you have to do is tell Trump his internet will get slower and he'll be on this thing quicker than Ivanka

    • @FieryRedmond
      @FieryRedmond 6 лет назад +43

      Or Tell Ted Cruz, we all know what he uses the Internet for ;;;;;;;)

    • @JaxTheCartographer
      @JaxTheCartographer 6 лет назад +22

      Batman Jr. No more twitter

    • @f1ggyc
      @f1ggyc 6 лет назад +8

      Jaxson Davis72 SAD!

    • @ajschlem
      @ajschlem 6 лет назад +3

      If you put the Senators on Obamacare, they’d repeal it.

    • @ChrisKnowles1170
      @ChrisKnowles1170 6 лет назад

      In fairness, that's not very fast.

  • @pedrovinicius5694
    @pedrovinicius5694 5 лет назад +2

    Dude, here in Brazil we use wireless connection everywere, and when u have acess to line the fastests speed are about 12~20 mbps

    • @Guizambaldi
      @Guizambaldi 5 лет назад +2

      My wire connection is 15 mbps. I think it is great. Used to have wireless though... it could be fast but it was very inconsistent. When it rained the connection sucked.

  • @rajat8999
    @rajat8999 5 лет назад +3

    0:10 which circle were they talking about I had two on my screen .

  • @333ryansmith
    @333ryansmith 6 лет назад +575

    Here in northwestern New Jersey: wifi is monopolistic and slow, data is really fast. thankfully i have unlimited🙏🏼
    - rs

    • @chickenofthecave1406
      @chickenofthecave1406 6 лет назад +20

      Ryan Smith Here in South Jersey WiFi is fast, data is fast. I’ve never had to wait more than 2 seconds for a page or anything to load

    • @lacanm1554
      @lacanm1554 6 лет назад +9

      As a person who lives in Northwestern New Jersey I can confirm

    • @tastybunns1
      @tastybunns1 6 лет назад +15

      You may be being throttled by your communications provider. I'd look into changing providers because companies slow your internet down intentionally to make you buy more.

    • @chickenofthecave1406
      @chickenofthecave1406 6 лет назад +2

      Valak Dunban Just another reason why South Jersey is better ;)

    • @tauhypnos5355
      @tauhypnos5355 6 лет назад +6

      Northeaster New Jerseyite here, and I can confirm, New Jersey data is amazingly fast

  • @preoximerias7366
    @preoximerias7366 6 лет назад +29

    Dropping the high speed Internet standard so that you can say " more Americans now have high speed Internet than ever before, especially rural Americans" is about the same as dropping the grade needed for a letter grade in school so that "more children can get a higher grade on their report card." You don't drop the standard so that more people can hit the standard, you raise the standard so more people can strive towards that new standard.
    I thought this was America.

  • @kalidasrayirath8806
    @kalidasrayirath8806 4 года назад +3

    Watching this with 0.5 Mbps Internet

  • @xowishuwereherex
    @xowishuwereherex 5 лет назад

    Rural Georgia has the same issues. You can be denied fast internet connection from the services ending across the street. Comcast and AT&T have complete monopoly in the area. AT&T has just allowed the Bell South DSL lines to rot and have had to splice the cable to get half assed internet connection to provide internet services to the area. I live in Cartersville Georgia.

  • @tim_m22
    @tim_m22 6 лет назад +45

    This video can be also called “Why everyone in Australia has shitty internet compared to the rest of the world” cause Vox basically explains it

    • @jjia6304
      @jjia6304 6 лет назад +1

      It's because the government doesn't spend money on proper infrastructure and rather give tax cuts to big companies so top executives can get bigger $$$ in their pockets.

    • @bryanlin982
      @bryanlin982 6 лет назад

      uh no because the poputation is so far from everything else

    • @dax2036
      @dax2036 6 лет назад +1

      games data 55 percent people live in cities on the south east cost in Australia over 60 percent of people live in cities and if your wondering I got my data from the 2016 census

  • @Trent-vc7gq
    @Trent-vc7gq 6 лет назад +21

    When you live in Australia and still try to hide the pain of having slow internet constantly :/

  • @tonyawilson9654
    @tonyawilson9654 3 года назад

    We JUST got broadband fiber last month in our area. Life changer I tell ya 😂. We didn’t know what to do with all this internet available on all our devices. Didn’t realize we were missing out.

  • @siopao8137
    @siopao8137 3 года назад +27

    *laughs in Filipino PLDT, Globe, and Smart
    I’m legit lagging while watching this

    • @n00bm4str69
      @n00bm4str69 3 года назад +1

      kaya nakakatawa yung mga maniniwala sa 5g internet dito sa pinas

    • @n00bm4str69
      @n00bm4str69 3 года назад +2

      4g nga hindi ma provide ng maayos, 5g pa kaya?

  • @jasonmcmillan6598
    @jasonmcmillan6598 6 лет назад +104

    availability does not = access. What broadband that is available is expensive through artificial price points dictated by monopolies.

    • @thebravegallade731
      @thebravegallade731 6 лет назад +2

      exactly, which is why mobile plans are cheap, comparativly. all three providers have overlapping coverage, sparking competition.
      in korea, the three mobile companies provide both, and ANY company can use ANY fibre optic cable I believe. the 3 companies are SKT, KT, and LG (yes that LG). in mobile its SKT 50%, KT 30%, LG 20% while in broadband (NO ONE uses modem, duh, when unlimited 3G plans are literally cheaper and more reliable) its KT 50%, SKT30%, and LG 20%.

    • @stuartschindler9435
      @stuartschindler9435 6 лет назад

      Wait, mobile plans are cheap?

    • @thebravegallade731
      @thebravegallade731 6 лет назад +1

      Stuart Schindler for what you get, and considering the area they cover, yes.

    • @waswestkan
      @waswestkan 6 лет назад +1

      There is a cost to provide any utility, what the data behind your assertion the price being charge is artificial? An inability to or unwillingness to pay the rate being charged isn't evidence of "artificial price points" I'm not pro monopoly, but I have been active in providing "free" to the user services, so forgive me if I see your comment, as made by someone who doesn't have a clue.

    • @anthonymigliaccio3492
      @anthonymigliaccio3492 6 лет назад +1

      Well it’s actually an oligopoly with heavy collusion, but you do you

  • @umbrella9535
    @umbrella9535 6 лет назад +78

    Bro at least you aint in Australia

    • @chok3061
      @chok3061 6 лет назад +3

      Panadol Rapid could not be more true... I max out at 300kbps

    • @relafps
      @relafps 6 лет назад

      3/.6 here in nz

    • @SK-zi3sr
      @SK-zi3sr 6 лет назад

      3mbps when it is good , 10kbps when it's bad

  • @Destin5258
    @Destin5258 4 года назад +8

    0:29 Correlation vs causation. you guys really need to look this up.

    • @liamgaine
      @liamgaine 4 года назад +3

      I was looking for this comment. Such a basic mistake. Those areas have better internet BECAUSE they are better off, they didn't become successful because of good internet....

    • @greenknight421
      @greenknight421 4 года назад

      I think it's more a meta belief that if attention is put into providing broadband internet for rural communities in the U.S., then it is reasoned that it will follow with additional attention to other problems in those communities. That is still a problem though, as this assumption is not verifiably accurate and has no reliable source, such as IMO many other meta beliefs. Just wanted to point out that there is a bit more nuance to the error than what you say there is.

    • @yaanonymous9663
      @yaanonymous9663 3 года назад

      In a similar manner, there's a difference between formal error and wrong conclusion.

  • @imcintyre01
    @imcintyre01 6 лет назад +12

    I’m standing here with a phone in my hand watching RUclips out in my car remember when I used to play pinball on my home computer.

  • @doomtomb3
    @doomtomb3 6 лет назад +51

    This is a case of Correlation, not Causation. Ya, you're right Vox! Lack of Broadband is responsible for less college education, and more unemployment. Or maybe these are pre existing features of rural vs urban America.... just maybe....

    • @jezmonster7
      @jezmonster7 6 лет назад +1

      doomtomb3 yes!

    • @mattschmidly5253
      @mattschmidly5253 6 лет назад +1

      +1

    • @markgigiel2722
      @markgigiel2722 6 лет назад +13

      Well, yeah, true. BUT> If I spent my entire life working on a farm, I may have missed a few things. Doesn't mean I shouldn't have the opportunity to learn and improve my knowledge and maybe my lot in life. I shouldn't have to move to the city. Who will do the farming then?

    • @MarshallProtsman
      @MarshallProtsman 6 лет назад +1

      I agree with both points here.

  • @Voivrenetwork
    @Voivrenetwork 6 лет назад +43

    Sad thing is, I live in Las Vegas, NV and can only get a max of 10Mbps. I'm in the middle of the city near the strip. When I moved in I was told by centurylink that I could get 25 and I was happy, til they came and told me my max was 10, the still charged me for 25Mbps for months before it was realized.

    • @DavidJohnson-dp4vv
      @DavidJohnson-dp4vv 5 лет назад +1

      This makes no sense how can I 50 Mps in Oklahoma and it's not even the fastest.

    • @oreojsn92
      @oreojsn92 5 лет назад +3

      I'm gonna keep an eye on mine now. Just signed up for 1000mbps for my new house in suburban Phoenix but we're an hour from downtown in a really new part of the valley. Hopefully CenturyLink doesn't screw me like they did you 🤔

    • @4DR3N4L1N3.
      @4DR3N4L1N3. 4 года назад

      What a ripoff.

    • @alfredo9850
      @alfredo9850 4 года назад +1

      This is 2 years old but feels like its been forever don't they offer way higher speeds now? For about 100 dollars

    • @aj-sz8mu
      @aj-sz8mu 3 года назад

      Never believe customer service. Always check the address for coverage yourself. Ive been advertised to by companies that dont even operate in my street, saying fiber optics etc.

  • @wanmanda
    @wanmanda 3 года назад +3

    And here I was thinking that’s just a third world problem 🇿🇲 . I have faster internet then 10% of Americans 🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾

  • @NicoAW17
    @NicoAW17 4 года назад +5

    1:03 wow didn't know my internet was actually that bad

  • @kiran9696
    @kiran9696 6 лет назад +30

    These people should have experienced the 2G speed in india before jio. Then they will know what pain was.

  • @samokobe1308
    @samokobe1308 6 лет назад +27

    My internet was really slow during this video, How ironic!

  • @Cyder
    @Cyder 5 лет назад

    Why is it like the whole east coast (Virginia, my state) with WiFi but the west is empty

  • @n1ghtblur
    @n1ghtblur 6 лет назад

    In Northwest Arkansas our local electric co-op has gigabit fiber for $80/mo as well as TV and phone packages that are extra. Lots of rural customers around here are getting it and the central areas aren't because the inner city areas around here use SWEPCO and not the co-op for electricity lol

  • @basilsunnyalukka4491
    @basilsunnyalukka4491 6 лет назад +196

    Enjoying 0.6 mbps download& .3 Mbps upload in India

    • @shubhampreetsingh8630
      @shubhampreetsingh8630 6 лет назад +12

      Basil Sunny hey it's MBps not mbps. MBps is more than mbps

    • @basilsunnyalukka4491
      @basilsunnyalukka4491 6 лет назад +4

      ????..

    • @z2ybh4g6gojdt92
      @z2ybh4g6gojdt92 6 лет назад +33

      open bob

    • @shanemsmith
      @shanemsmith 6 лет назад +7

      Basil Sunny
      Ignore that sandvitchman man and Ezilla 2013; they're just being racist. It does suck to hear about that connection speed though. Access to the internet should be a basic human right here in the Information Age, and a speed that low is unacceptable. Of course, we have a long way to go in EVERY country before we can focus on that problem.

    • @mrwaddles4363
      @mrwaddles4363 6 лет назад +3

      I have pretty much the same speeds here in America :(

  • @kenobadogomba376
    @kenobadogomba376 6 лет назад +549

    The internet here in Zambia (an African country BTW) is worse but I see your frustration

    • @crimsonstar108
      @crimsonstar108 6 лет назад +71

      Keno Badogomba Maybe you should move to Nambia. I hear that their healthcare system is becoming increasingly self sufficient. 😂

    • @gameboyhotline3712
      @gameboyhotline3712 6 лет назад +19

      Keno Badogomba Zambia isn’t designed to be a running state its designed for the extraction of resources as long as there are disfuncional democracies in Africa that will always be the case

    • @maxdondada
      @maxdondada 6 лет назад +11

      Zambia is not a shitty country. Be proud Keno

    • @judebruwuh7030
      @judebruwuh7030 6 лет назад

      Keno Badogomba i know the capital, it's Lusaka i know all of them

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 6 лет назад +14

      +Viper 47 ---> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia ---> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia

  • @hbarudi
    @hbarudi 5 лет назад

    A beam of light can carry huge amounts of data. For each one of those rural counties can get light transmitters that can connect people to the internet. But you can't place any object in the path of an internet carrying light beam or it will disable your internet connection for the people being served by the connection. But this will keep the cost of transmitting internet low. Eventually it can become possible that your LED light bulb also act as you LiFi (Light "WiFi") router.

  • @menofmayhemmm
    @menofmayhemmm 5 лет назад +1

    We even has fiber optic on rural Thailand and it's just 25 bucks for 100mbps

  • @jve89
    @jve89 6 лет назад +15

    Oh gosh, this video triggered my 10 hour non stop sax guy video addiction. Got to watch it now, bye!

    • @sirkastic
      @sirkastic 6 лет назад +1

      Link or it didn't happen

  • @senseiadam-brawlstars9465
    @senseiadam-brawlstars9465 6 лет назад +13

    Why not use Ethernet Over Power? You know that electricity can carry data (look it up). The only reason why they don’t do it currently is that you have to just add a small cable to each power Transformer, but the data companies don’t wanna do that because they don’t want the power companies to be involved In their business model.

  • @jgenert
    @jgenert 5 лет назад

    How do you explain the up-tick in Unemployment and poverty in areas with the highest access to broadband internet. In those circumstances is access to internet unrelated to poverty and unemployment? Does that call into question the implication of your argument at 1:26? Are sweeping statements based on simple comparisons of raw data appropriate? Are those assumptions all we have to make decisions? Food for thought.

  • @paladinoestetica1915
    @paladinoestetica1915 5 лет назад +1

    Can I point out the big circle on the left, on the thumbnail is because no one lives there it's mainly desert.

  • @jenniie0
    @jenniie0 6 лет назад +86

    I would actually die.

    • @philspencer8504
      @philspencer8504 6 лет назад +2

      Inferno no you wouldn't

    • @scofield1154
      @scofield1154 6 лет назад +3

      you actually wouldn't

    • @cgrav5854
      @cgrav5854 6 лет назад +1

      Inferno not if you were never introduced to the internet

    • @gabemerritt3139
      @gabemerritt3139 6 лет назад +1

      I can confirm you would want to but you wouldn't

  • @carleydeiss8202
    @carleydeiss8202 6 лет назад +22

    My phone started buffering as soon as this video started lol

  • @xxpistonxx7923
    @xxpistonxx7923 5 лет назад +1

    this video buffered so much for me, i'm not even lying

  • @misterteee9471
    @misterteee9471 3 года назад

    Someone please help!
    Whenever I test my internet on one of those speedtest sites it says my download is 45mbps and upload is 5mbps which would be AWESOME if my real download when trying to download stuff from steam, google, battlenet, epic games, whatever its 4 - 6 mbps download with like 400kbps upload. Are all those sites scams? do I have some leaching neighborhood virus yoinking my speed?

  • @xHiisoka
    @xHiisoka 6 лет назад +14

    This video makes me thankful to be living in Lithuania where you can easily get 600mbps internet for less than 20euro or at least a decent speed for couple of euros.

    • @Lonsoleil
      @Lonsoleil 6 лет назад

      KuroiSenko
      Must be nice!

    • @ericding42
      @ericding42 6 лет назад

      KuroiSenko lucky you

  • @pparkeroni
    @pparkeroni 6 лет назад +27

    The fastest internet I've ever experienced in my country is 400 kbps .-.

  • @2wordname
    @2wordname 4 года назад

    I moved from a small rural town where the fasted internet speed was less than 1 mbs to the city where my University is and the internet I have now that's more affordable than the internet back home is a whopping (to me) 60mbs! There were packages that were double that, but they were more for businesses and stuff and were really expensive. I kinda feel like I've been missing out tbh

  • @huwfylt
    @huwfylt 3 года назад +1

    my town recently voted to finally get broadband next year.

  • @HenrikoMagnifico
    @HenrikoMagnifico 6 лет назад +48

    14mbit downstream 2mbit upstream. We pay 75$ a month for that crap.
    Man how I love northern Sweden!! :D

    • @Albondrag
      @Albondrag 6 лет назад +2

      jackseptic eye That would be Finland you're thinking of.

    • @TurtleGamers1
      @TurtleGamers1 6 лет назад +5

      +jackseptic eye Not in the north, and not if you live in a rural area or just outside a city. The internet inside cities is good though.

    • @Worldwidegam3r
      @Worldwidegam3r 6 лет назад +1

      Henriko Magnifico Still better than my internet. I live in a UK city and i get 5 up 0.7 down

    • @potatomaster9001
      @potatomaster9001 6 лет назад

      75 for 14mbit sir i think you have been rickrolled

    • @a3f4cdf
      @a3f4cdf 6 лет назад +2

      £50/m for 300 down 20 up in the UK 😁
      Gotta love Virgin Media lol

  • @tuckman5783
    @tuckman5783 6 лет назад +31

    I am in a rural area, I just tested my WiFi on Speedtest and got 1mb down and 0.06 mb up, I support this movement 100%

    • @derekj4590
      @derekj4590 5 лет назад +3

      I fell sorry for you.

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 5 лет назад +2

      There s no reason why other people should pay for your internet. If you want higher speed, move to a place where there is higher speed.

    • @libbybollinger5901
      @libbybollinger5901 5 лет назад +8

      Maxime Meis you realise people can’t just magically move their entire life to a city right? There are jobs, family, and ntm, housing prices in cities tend to be significantly higher than in more rural areas, so it’s likely they wouldn’t even be able to afford to move.

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 5 лет назад

      Libby Bollinger I do. Decisions have consequences. Good and bad. And for people the drawbacks of moving to the city outweight the benefits of a faster internet. Decisions imply trade off. People don t have a right to make other people bear the consequences of their choices. If you live in the middle of nowhere you don t have a right to make people who live in the city pay for the fast connexion you want. If you want it, pay for it or move to the city.

    • @viziotvremote6415
      @viziotvremote6415 5 лет назад

      Yeah Let me move out of this part of the world to get better internet.

  • @gamersspace9556
    @gamersspace9556 5 лет назад +2

    In pompano beach, south Florida
    You pay $60 month for 25 mbps download 6 upload

  • @circll9365
    @circll9365 3 года назад +1

    Thank you Haley. I didn’t know you sit!

  • @MrProtopopescovici
    @MrProtopopescovici 6 лет назад +20

    If we have something going for us in eastern Europe that is very good internet speed because nobody would touch our net neutrality, there would be riots, for example i just paid my basic internet package, 9$ for 100mbs down/ 10 mbs up, and this is the basic pack mind you, we have better ones for 25-40$ that have really good fiber optic speeds and are used by streamers etc
    It always baffled me that one of the most developed countries in the world has such slow internet speeds + GB caps (300 - 500 - 1000), there is no such thing as GB caps here and in my opinion they are ridiculous

    • @chatnoir1224
      @chatnoir1224 6 лет назад +1

      4$ for 10mb/s in Russia(Moscow). No limits, of course. For 8$= 50mb/s. Why Western Europe have shitty internet is out of my understanding.

    • @augustopinochet6899
      @augustopinochet6899 6 лет назад

      I have 30/mbps down for $40 (unlimited),but my cell has a 300MB cap.

  • @lego501stTrigger
    @lego501stTrigger 6 лет назад +7

    I live in the middle of a city (Toronto) and I have 2 options: 1 ISP offers 100 Mbps over cable for about $60 USD, and at peak hours it becomes 15-20, which is still fast, but RUclips still buffers at that time. The other ISP offers up to 5 Mbps for $50 USD. You'd think that the slower one would be better, as they're offering it at the same price as a much better connection, but that one is also cable. Fiber optic cables have been installed across the city, yet they curiously forgot my area. So that's fun. Unreliable rural internet for the next 3-5 years.

    • @lego501stTrigger
      @lego501stTrigger 6 лет назад +2

      The other ISP assured me over dm that, by August (this was in June), they would offer fiber optic in my area. Nearly October, and nothing has changed

  • @alexsharp4848
    @alexsharp4848 5 лет назад

    In Mississippi they connect the modem by putting WiFi cables in the power lines

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 4 года назад +1

    2:39 what is the name of the music?

  • @defencebangladesh4068
    @defencebangladesh4068 6 лет назад +60

    10mbps for 5$ here in Bangladesh per month.

    • @neutronstar5544
      @neutronstar5544 6 лет назад +7

      Iftekhar Ahmed not bad

    • @defencebangladesh4068
      @defencebangladesh4068 6 лет назад +4

      savage q As we are connected to the second submarine cable from this month, we hope the speed will be doubled in a few weeks.
      Thanks to the present govt.

    • @bravonolan
      @bravonolan 6 лет назад +4

      eh what? just go outside of Dhaka,the further you go both price/speed gets shittier and shittier paying almost 12$ for 2mb/s down 10mb/s up wiredline and talkbout so called 3G 4G? lol those will put everyone to shame.

    • @bravonolan
      @bravonolan 6 лет назад

      and pls don't count those local peered and cached google steam uplay akamai speeds,everyone gets these things in every country.
      EDIT: oh forgot about those cheap shared IPs lmayo...

    • @jonaskloster1562
      @jonaskloster1562 6 лет назад +1

      Just go my new network installed here in Norway. Its about 1000mbps and i only pay 60 dollars a month!

  • @markm0000
    @markm0000 6 лет назад +9

    The government just needs to enforce that all building connections must be 500mbps fiber. That will get all ISPs moving fast to get that dark fiber up and running to each house and business across the country. They can't possibly squeeze that much speed out of copper. I'd like to see them try.

    • @jonathan21022
      @jonathan21022 6 лет назад +1

      if they can run and maintain landline phone service they can maintain a fiber connection in rural areas.

    • @denelson83
      @denelson83 5 лет назад

      Comcast and its ilk will almost certainly blanket the government with lobbying efforts to stop that from ever happening.

  • @rajeshwarprasad9061
    @rajeshwarprasad9061 5 лет назад +7

    well, having a high-speed internet connection doesn't cause more college degrees or employment. It could be that people with college degrees and more employment knows better about the benefits of the internet and can actually afford to have a high-speed internet connection in the first place.
    hence, we should remember, correlation does not mean causation.

    • @thecrap17yearsago35
      @thecrap17yearsago35 5 лет назад

      hahaha these debate isn't about people being able to afford it, nobody can afford in the areas you're mentioning because it doesn't exist not that its expensive

    • @ViniSocramSaint
      @ViniSocramSaint 5 лет назад +1

      Maybe. That is an actualy good idea. People with degrees and high-paying jobs do know that internet is important and more often than not they can afford broadband. There are a few things I would like to ad though
      Having higher internet speed allows access to better databases, wikis or digital libraries of either book scans or digital books and decreases the time it takes to learn something because the time it takes to load pages and visit other places with more infos decreases. It allows for getting info from many more places than just "fast" social media apps.
      It also allows access to employment sites, where people go to learn who is giving a job opportunity, which have a broader reach than the info on a few local newspapers or your relatives can give. Also, we can learn of trends on each state, city, country and continent, learning which trade or demand of certain service is trending where, allowing for a more educated guess of where to go work or even if a individual initiative is better. We can even reseach crime rates, pay ammount, laborer laws, house prices and what not about the local of the potential job. Heck! We can even research the job itself! Maybe going to work knowing what to expect decreases how much people feel like giving up, and knowing where are the opportunities makes unemployed people know where to look for work instead of having no idea of where to start
      The problem of people not having good internet is multifactorial. It could be because of prices, economical pros not being enough for providers to privide the service near, ignorance either because of lack of knowledge or beliefs against, high dificulty to install the infrastructure necessary, the people in the current government not thinking it is a human necessity to be connected so the poor or geographically disadvantaged americans should just deal with it... etc.
      So yeah. Good broadband actually causes college degrees and jobs to some extent and some more advantages. Just remember that direct and indirect causation are, actualy, causation, and it can happen even if there is correlation and even if there is not. Maybe you should correct the saying to "Correlation DOES NOT ALWAYS mean causation" and even ad "and correlation sometimes can just make the causation more obvious"

  • @EHoward64
    @EHoward64 5 лет назад

    Some parts of the state i live in, companies have monopolies and you are stuck with one ISP. Also the father you are the lower priority you are for service and Cell service / Satellite is limited due to the mountainous regions.

  • @erickrehbiel2837
    @erickrehbiel2837 6 лет назад +27

    In my hometown, Fort Collins, Colorado, they are making fiber optic internet (ie something like google fiber) a utility, effectively eliminating privatized internet for the masses in the area, lowering costs and increasing internet speed.

    • @bruce9551
      @bruce9551 6 лет назад

      Eric Krehbiel ayyy I’m in foco too

    • @ronnieDaking
      @ronnieDaking 6 лет назад

      But isn't utility still privatized?

    • @davidhoffman5789
      @davidhoffman5789 6 лет назад +2

      Not if it is done by the city itself or a public utility like a publically owned electricity or telephone company/cooperative.

    • @nameunavailableffs
      @nameunavailableffs 6 лет назад +3

      It's a shame like 90% of areas ban non-privatized internet lol monopoly and paid politicunts

  • @jkerman5113
    @jkerman5113 6 лет назад +163

    Lol Ajit Pai makes no internet

    • @hi-nw7qy
      @hi-nw7qy 5 лет назад +2

      @@MQJ007
      r/ihadastroke

    • @jake1173
      @jake1173 5 лет назад

      @@hi-nw7qy tf

    • @hi-nw7qy
      @hi-nw7qy 5 лет назад

      @@jake1173
      Basically means he can't type.

    • @jake1173
      @jake1173 5 лет назад

      @@hi-nw7qy yeah but he can though.

    • @hi-nw7qy
      @hi-nw7qy 5 лет назад

      @@jake1173
      So you can perfectly understand what he says and would say he did not have alot of grammatical errors?

  • @glassandsteel
    @glassandsteel 5 лет назад +14

    Correlation is not causation regarding internet speeds, employment, and education.

    • @logoslive
      @logoslive 4 года назад +4

      Actually, it is. Every single region that gets internet does better on all of those fronts, including employment, education, finance, standard of living and so on.

    • @nilleftw
      @nilleftw 4 года назад +2

      @@logoslive Chicaco has strict gun laws, but tons of gun crime. Saying that stricter gun laws leads to more gun crime is absolutely false. Just like Internet speed and access, regional and social factors play a big factor too.

  • @ki2319
    @ki2319 3 года назад +2

    I wish I could share my 500mbps😔

  • @spookyskeleton542
    @spookyskeleton542 6 лет назад +41

    Literally while I was watching this my screen buffered lol

    • @vSilense
      @vSilense 5 лет назад

      Spooky Skeleton same lol

  • @philthomassiby
    @philthomassiby 6 лет назад +8

    this video is amazing. didnt even realize that i was watching for 7 min

  • @marymotch
    @marymotch 3 года назад +1

    I LITERALLY LIVE IN THE SAME COUNTY AS THE CITY OF CLEVELAND BUT SOMEHOW I CANT GET VIDEOS TO LOAD BETTER THEN 144p. Anything above is a blessing. I loaded a 14GB game in 45 minutes at my grandpas house which is 7 minutes up the road and it took me 5 nights to do the same at my house. ATT please explain that to me because somehow we have the same service. I also live on a hill too 🙄

    • @vanthom9185
      @vanthom9185 3 года назад

      What part of Cuyahoga county you live in😂😂 here its good

  • @Asteroid_Jam
    @Asteroid_Jam 5 лет назад +3

    Space X is making Star link and that can fix the broad band gap problems.

  • @johnmedina7083
    @johnmedina7083 6 лет назад +85

    1:01 epic sax guy aye