In municipalities we are well served by high speed Net access.
It is when you get on the fringes of these municipalities and into
the suburban areas that there is a stark difference.
There are a number of smaller towns in this area, 10K population or
so that have varying degrees of service. Most of them have VOIP available.
Our municipality does not have any special services, except the cable
company is offering speeds of 15mps. (I have achieved this
occasionally on my own connection)
Much of the problem has to do with the cable systems. Also the age
of our copper system (phone lines) is starting to cause problems.
I have checked out DSL high speed and the best they can offer is 4mps
due to limitations of the infrastructure.
Again it is hit and miss. (A lot like AT&T's 3g coverage)
Stewart
At 04:40 PM 4/3/2010, you wrote:
On Apr 3, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
The speeds on the map are somewhat misleading. The FCC says that
anything over 768 kBPS qualifies as "broadband." Nothing in that says
anything about symmetric or asymmetic (and they are setting the bar
too low).
So things in the USA are really much worse than the map would
indicate. You are not making us feel better.
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