Patch, can I have it?

[LawlSTi]

Oh, is this where we compare epeens?

[DracotheDragon]

Oh, is this where we compare epeens?

how.. the hell America why is your net speeds so damned high, no seriously in the uk finer optic you'd be lucky seeing 15mb/s and your in the hundreds o..o

[razielvh]

I still want to download early though ^^.

[Keruvinde]

i think mines broken, because I get lag everyday at prime time and why is my upload so high @_@

[KizunaBlade]

how.. the hell America why is your net speeds so damned high, no seriously in the uk finer optic you'd be lucky seeing 15mb/s and your in the hundreds o..o

I live in america and my net speed is not even half that guys qq...mine is grade B and only like 33 mb download, 6 upload and like 10 ping....Comcast lies when they say they are the fastest internet ><'

[Crazypluto]

my Comcast speeds are great 1100 miles away.

[zenmetsu]

So many people with seemingly low connection speeds, it seems weird these days.

Your connection speed is seemingly low.

[LawlSTi]

Mediacom offers up to 150mb down and 20mb up over coax. Fastest I could find in my area. I wish I had dat google fiber though >=)

[Velox]

Do I win?

So many people with seemingly low connection speeds, it seems weird these days.

It's the nature of this country which has substandard infrastructure and won't spend a penny to upgrade it because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
We only have a single ISP that services this area and they charge $87 a month for a download speed of 3Mbs (also includes phone). That's the fastest and ONLY speed they offer. They get away with it because they have a monopoly over the entire area, so there is no competition to drive their costs down (or their quality up). There is no competition due to a shady backdoor deal they made with Comcast 11 years ago that neither one would move into eachother's regions so they could jack up prices as much as possible without competing. They literally set up a dividing line in the county. If you live south of the line, you only get Comcast. If you live north of the line, you only get Windstream. Both ISPs are making a killing off of it. Verizon can't even get a foothold because the mountains block 90% of cell service (so only a handful of the population even has cell phones). To build a new network, it could cost them millions and they wouldn't get a return for it, so they don't bother.

For much of the U.S., decent internet is restricted to metropolitan areas and the surrounding suburbs. If you don't live in either of these, you're only option is internet access that was oudated back in '95 because no one wants to, or simply can't, update the lines.

[Raist]

i think mines broken, because I get lag everyday at prime time and why is my upload so high @_@

you lag because of latency/packet loss issues, not your bandwidth. Two exclusively different measurements of your "speed" on the internet that work together to determine your actual throughput during a given download--one term is misinformation from the ISP's to the point everyone uses it to represent their speed, while the other is the more appropriate metric to use. The game typically uses less than 1.2Mbit/sec bandwidth on average--it's far more dependent on you having consistently low latency than an absurdly wide bandwidth.