(12-15-2017 01:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-15-2017 01:21 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-15-2017 12:56 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  There was a discussion on the radio about this and someone called in and claimed that the United States has terrible internet compared to European countries.

Can anyone confirm or deny these claims?

Define "terrible".

If you mean speed, South Korea has the best. Some Western Europe countries average 20-23 Mbps. USA's average is 19 Mbps. You should understand why that is. If you mean freedom, Europe is a joke. They ban and censor everything.

I'm just talking about speed.

What the caller said was that in Europe, there is no such thing as high speed internet because everyone has it. It's just internet.

This is true. And this has also been the case for a long time. Even the type of cable they have been putting in the ground has been more advanced than what we have been using, from fiber cable, to cat 7 cable. We are slowly catching up, but rural areas are still hurting for high speed internet.