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Sunday, 22-Apr-12 16:57:39 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
Why is the internet in the US so poor compared to the rest of the world? The average speed is like 15 megs in S. Korea, while that's extremely high end in America. Buck, we're even worse than countries like Romania and Iceland!
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@rarity In their cities I believe they have 100 and 1000 mb connections for about.. $20 or so dollars a month.
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@rarity its actually just the greed of the american ISPs mostly
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@mrdragon exactly! I don't understand why some people love to brag about how much better the US is than other countries when we're lagging behind is so many areas (in this case literally, we get our flanks fragged so much quicker)
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@rarity I'm in the UK and I've yet to play on a server anywhere that I lag on. I've played with AUS guys and US guys.
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@mrdragon well that statement was more for hyperbolic effect haha, I know that realistically the internet connections of most Americans are fine for gaming. It's more along the lines of download speed (and upload speed for streamers etc.) that we are really lacking.
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@rarity Ehh.. actually for upload the US has the UK. We have horrid upload.. I have a 15mb fibre line (That gets upgraded to 30 soon) and I have little over half a meg upload. It's really pathetic.
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@rarity I'm in the states, and I pull 50Mb/s up and down (when abusing my uni's system). When cost is no object...
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@mrdragon ouch... my upload is about 5MB and even that is better than 80% of the us. I couldn't even imagine half a MB #feelsbadbrony
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@eaglehooves lucky buck.
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@rarity I've actually only ever downloaded at 2mb and uploaded at 100kb/s .. the 15mb is shared equally within the line for the house, and it's really crappy the way it's setup. But.. much better then my last house, 800kb/s download and 50kb/s upload.
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@commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese Most ISP's just don't want to pay to upgrade because most people aren't complaining.
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@rarity [i]Almost[/i] makes up for the obscene tuition.
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@mrdragon I think I just vomited a little.
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@eaglehooves /almost/.
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@rarity Trust me, when it comes to internet, the US is better then the UK. Took us over a month just to get internet at our new house.
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@commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese true, I'd gladly take the worst internet in the world over no internet any day.
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@mrdragon but the UK has scones!
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@rarity I hate scones.. and crumpets... I much prefer Pie.
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@commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese god ol' screechy modems.
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@rarity i eat scones here in the US... but it is hard to find good ones >.>
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@mrdragon who doesn't prefer pie?
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@rarity I remember the sound, I think back now, and I want a sound clip of it to show my children one day,"kids, this is what we had to put up with."
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@rarity Love a good Chicken pie, or my fav. Corned beef and Potato.
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@madykatt I don't really know much about scone quality, as I've only had them on few occasions. I'll take your word however!
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@jojoax Nostalgia time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GSRG0TqxLWc
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@mrdragon Beef with anything is a surefire winner.
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@commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese and when they complain that their VR suit isn't providing accurate feedback, we can show them the N64 controller.
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@eaglehooves lol use that then me and my brothers would play warcraft 2 lol
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@commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese skipped right over it! XP straight into 7. but I have used it and all I have to say is http://ur1.ca/922w7
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@rarity I had to install Vista for someone last week. It was terrible, but they refused to spend any money.
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@eaglehooves Doesn't Vista still cost a considerable sum? I know how Microsoft is.
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@rarity only have to buy it once. if the install is bad, you can reinstall it with the same code
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@rarity They had a system loaded with viruses and the disk that came with it. Re-installed on their old key.
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@madykatt oh, I assumed he was talking about someone wanting to upgrade to Vista instead of 7 because it was cheaper or something.
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@eaglehooves yeah, my bad for automatically assuming they wanted to upgrade to vista over 7 for price reasons haha
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@rarity Not out of the question. I've seen people do all sorts of things to save a few bits. "But fixing the powerbook would be less than a new MacBook" "Do I really have to talk you down from this? IT'S A POWERPC!" "So?" *facehoof*
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@eaglehooves well, you know how ponies can be. Buck fillies get bits and all that.
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