Quote Originally Posted by DracotheDragon View Post
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
America has this odd internet situation. In large metropolitan city areas (think downtown Seattle of NYC) the competition for wealthy business is high, so internet companies are constantly upgrading infrastructure. Plus everything's closer together. Incidentally, these places are usually expensive as hell to live. The surrounding areas tend to have it decent but nowhere near the blistering speeds of 100 Mb/s+ as the number of service providers thins out, and competition starts to slow.

Also these extreme speeds are pretty useless for most of us. Our data gets bottlenecked by our providers anyway.