Anyone who has even a little more than basic knowledge about internet speed knows that the US is severely lacking in the speed department on the world stage, and it's the fault of the providers and their business models.

Even though our infrastructure is old, it can still handle faster speeds than what most of us get offered for an arm and a leg every month. It's pretty shitty that $50 of my Comcast bill goes towards internet that under-performs 90% of the time, even though it has "SpeedBoost" that gives me a faster download speed for the first 5MB or so of any download, I know that their "SpeedBoost" bullshit is just active throttling.

It's their way of saying "We know we're capable of better speeds, but why bother when you'll pay for the throttled garbage we give you now?"....and their monthly data caps are a bigger fucking lie than the health benefits of Chlorophyll.

We may have been the first to more or less have internet, but like many American firsts, it comes with a price and a sore ass.