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I have 500Mbps in Spain. Is it that bad in the American cities or is it only like rural Montana that has these speeds?
The issue is mostly that it’s highly variable, hard to change without moving, and hard to predict before you actually live somewhere.
The comcast rep will happily take your money to put you on a 200mb plan, but it won’t do shit if the infrastructure in your area is bad, and Comcast (or whoever the isp is) has absolutely zero responsibility to actually provide the promised services. Now you add in that 95% of the population including most of the phone reps working for the ISPs don’t even know the difference between a bit and a byte and it becomes a total crap shoot.
That's the same here too. My first apartment only had ADSL. In 2015.
I couldn't even watch Netflix without it stopping to buffer.
I really wish they would put internet speeds on apartment offers etc.