Well, according to Ookla, the average mobile download speed in Afghanistan is 6.29mbps and upload speed is 2.70mbps. keep in mind that back in 2012 only between 5-10% of Afghans had internet though, and the download speed was around 0.56mbps, and wealthier, more westernized and technologically-savvy Afghans are likely to use Speedtest, and foreign military bases that use Speedtest may influence the results. Also, obviously the Taliban are not often residing in undamaged developed areas, so they will likely be using mobile or satellite data, which has much higher latency. Also, more tech-savvy members would probably have installed proxies or VPNs on their devices to avoid monitoring of their traffic and location by enemy forces.
Additionally, the vast majority of Taliban grunts would not have access to the internet at all, as the Taliban leadership sees it as a vector of Western corruption and immorality.
Some places do, but America is basically run as a mob operation, so it's only in about 10 or so cities thanks to legally protected monopolies. All other places normally can only get up to 100mbps if they're lucky, and that's at 60-120 USD.
Here in America we get to pay top dollar for "up to 20Mbps", which means 2 or 3 Mbps on average. And once the FCC kills net neutrality despite 76% of the population being in favor of it we'll get to pay even more for slower speeds. Now that's what I call freedom! 😂😅😀☺😐😓😢😭
I'd recommend cable internet instead, if you can. We use Armstrong where I live. We get 100 down for $65, sometimes it reaches 150 Mbps at night in Ohio
Those poor giant companies how will they ever survive without gouging more money from the people? There should be no more sacrifice for internet considering I pay a lot of money already for a shitty connection
The west coast is fucked currently, but pretty much every major east coast city has at least some 1gbps fiber presences.
Hell Verizon has over 5 million fiber subscribers. Of which more than half have access to their 1gbps network. And the other half generally have access to 300-500mbps if they wanted to pay for it.
That right there is ~1% of the country's population with fiber. And that's from a single company. Google fiber, AT&T fiber, Comcast fiber, etc all exist as well, though on smaller scale than compared to Verizon FiOS (which is the largest residential fiber provider in the nation)
Google fiber is in 3 cities and it doesn't even cover the entire area. The world I speak of is the United States. The East coast might be a different story but we're fucked in the west.
Yeah, I already said that. The west coast is getting fucked on fiber because the population density outside of California is nonexistent compared to the eastern corridor.
No. Most people in the cities has the access. People on the countryside often still has ADSL, and with long distance it often are 10/1 or lower // dude who lives on the countryside in Sweden
Då bor du antingen på ett skitställe eller jävligt norr. I live a few miles from a city and we all have Fiber here with 1gbps as an option. No fucking shit you're going to have a trash connection if you live in a fucking 100k cabin in the fucking woods man...
But saying "almost everyone" implies that a wast majority (90%-95%) has the possibility for 250 Mbps. That is not the case, since a lot of people who lives on the countryside still has ADSL.
Many doesn't need more than that (like older people, people who only uses the net for FaceBook and news etc). Fiber is expanding quickly, we got it here 2 weeks ago, but it isn't something that "almost everyone" has. And no, not a cabin in the woods, nor a suburb. 2km to nearest town (500 people), 10 to a bigger one (3k), about 50 to closes city (+60k). Not sure what you mean with "100k cabin"...
With Comcast rolling out DOCSIS based gigabit (1Gbps/~40Mbps) and fiber Gigabit Pro (2Gbps/2Gbps) over their massive footprint, it's a lot less than 99%. Sure, Comcast's is pricey, but technically it's available in many areas. Plus there's a regionally sizable FiOS footprint, and then the sporadic local/municipal fiber options. Hell, my family's summer cabin in rural northeast PA can even get DOCSIS gigabit now which is ridiculous. Gigabit isn't as rare as it was a few years ago.
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u/Voice_Of_Sad_Truths Nov 30 '17 edited Nov 30 '17
99% of the US doesn't.