U.S. Broadband Is Slow

[Y3k Bug]

I found this to be an interesting article in light of the push by certain companies to have downloaded movies be the wave of the future:

Surprise, Surprise: U.S. Broadband Is Slow. Really Slow

Some snippets of the article:

Chicago (IL) - U.S. broadband speeds are the focus of a recently conducted study by Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and the results are not especially flattering for broadband service providers on these shores. The U.S. comes in 15th on a worldwide scale, far behind the leaders Japan, South Korea and Finland.

A file that takes four minutes to download in South Korea would take nearly an hour and a half to download in the U.S. using the average bandwidth. Japanese users leaves U.S. users behind with an eye-popping 63.60 Mb/s download link. This means that Japanese can download an entire movie in just two minutes, as opposed to two hours or more here in the U.S. Just in case you are wondering: No, Japanese users do not pay more for their broadband connections. In fact, U.S. broadband cost is among the highest in the world.

I live in one of the states where the speed has actually decreased, lucky me. I wonder if I can just run a REALLY long network cable from Japan...hmmm.