I love how articles like this seem to convienently ignore the fact that the US is a BIG COUNTRY, and countries like Korea and Japan are very small countries comparitively. I haven't done any research to backup the following claim, but I suspect that the Russian Federation's internet probably isn't on the level of these much smaller, denser countries. Anecdotal evidence from friends in Russia about the quality (or lack thereof) of their connections would support this claim though. On Jun 10, 2011 4:44 PM, "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
Jay Ashworth wrote:
Even Cracked realizes this:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster
That can't be good.
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"up to 10 percent of the country can't even get basic broadband"
I think I saw much larger numbers a few years ago when I read some hype stories about how broadband access in the USA sucks. I am positively surprised the gap has narrowed that much.
I wonder, what's wrong with dialup through ISDN? You get speed that is about the same as low end broadband I'd say. And I think it'd be available at these locations where DSL is not.
To quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access#ISDN
"A basic rate ISDN line (known as ISDN-BRI) is an ISDN line with 2 data "bearer" channels (DS0 - 64 kbit/s each). Using ISDN terminal adapters (erroneously called modems), it is possible to bond together 2 or more separate ISDN-BRI lines to reach bandwidths of 256 kbit/s or more. The ISDN channel bonding technology has been used for video conference applications and broadband data transmission."
My low end home DSL connection has similar bandwidth. With regards to the writer's main gripe, if your telecommute work typically consists of ssh sessions and email then even y'olde dialup will do just fine.
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