This is yet another thing the Republicans have been attacking (funding for rural broadband providers). Our rural areas are actually extremely well covered. Most of the midwest is fibered up. My local co-op’s minimum offered speed is 350x350.
Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours agoen.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_Internet_…
07. United States 274.16 19. Japan 212.06
According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.
Subdivide6857@midwest.social 13 hours ago
redlemace@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
ranked by Speedtest.net data
I have no other ideas to collect that data better but i’m sure that does not give a good generic view of the reality. Every tech I know in Sweden uses bredbandskollen. Even if an end-users is asked if they did test speed and delay, the site was bredbandskollen in nearly 100% of the cases if they had done so. Therefore I dare say speedtest is missing data and that list has no statistical relevance outside the scope of the speedtest user population.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Japan seeming to be ahead of the curve 20 years ago but now being at the same level or behind, seems to be a common theme.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Could be related to their stagnating economy and population. Conservatives love to point to Japan as a successful ethnostate, but their xenophobia has directly led to the stagnation.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
crank0271@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Wasn’t Google Fiber available in like, one town in Kansas? So I suppose yes, it did increase the average speed, but by a very small amount.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 44 minutes ago
Not quite. Google fiber did 2 things: 1) in any market thry entered, they forced an ante speed and 2) they provided a model that a bunch of local coops and/or municipal networks could follow (and did)
They are currently in 28 markets in the US.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.
People on shitty slow connections don’t have a need to go test that speed much, they know it’s shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is do.