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I saw some depressing news today that makes for an ironic followup to my Comcast post. Apparently the FCC has sided with Comcast and will be allowing them to serve more than 30% of the consumer base. This means that they are free to continue to grow like a festering sore in the country, until no man, woman, or child has felt their wrath personally.

To drive my points about unacceptable download speeds home, and just to illustrate how angry we all should be at companies like Comcast serving us with outdated last-century systems, take a look at the rest of the world’s average download speeds by country:

1. 21.01 Mb/s Korea
2. 15.77 Mb/s Japan
3. 14.95 Mb/s Aland Islands
4. 13.13 Mb/s Lithuania
5. 13.00 Mb/s Sweden
6. 12.76 Mb/s Latvia
7. 12.47 Mb/s Romania
8. 11.72 Mb/s Bulgaria
9. 11.68 Mb/s Netherlands
10. 9.60 Mb/s Moldova
11. 9.28 Mb/s Hong Kong
12 .8.59 Mb/s Slovakia
13. 8.40 Mb/s Germany
14. 8.22 Mb/s Russian Federation
…
27. 6.82 Mb/s United States

That’s right. We’re 27th overall. Moldova beats us out. Has anyone even heard of Moldova? Could you even find it on a map?

Head over to www.speedtest.net to test your own download and upload speeds and see how you compare. According to their stats – if you’re on Comcast, you should be averaging 14 Mbps. If you’re not getting that (I’m certainly not) — then you too, my friend, are getting screwed.

-Andy

Oh, and P.S., next time you’re in Moldova, could you ask Mihai Eminescu if I could borrow his internet? Thanks.

Related posts:

1. Comcast Responds!
2. Comcast “Bird for Brains” Internet

-Andy

Tags: comcast, download speeds, internet

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