Patch, can I have it?

[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.