Re:Valve Steam Deck
by rewq4321 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:12PM
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Honest question (I may have misunderstood): Do you mean to imply that those are good prices? For reference, I'm paying about $40 for 1000 mbps (I'm not in the US). Can go to 10gbps for about double that price (IIRC), but I think the bottleneck becomes server bandwidth so it wouldn't speed me up for most services.
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I pay $50 for symmetric gigabit in Redmond, WA. Not everywhere in US has crappy internet but the most populous places are entrenched.
$80 USD for 1000mbps in Tennessee, USA. Unfortunately I have the best internet of all my friend groups and will be moving across town to a newer home soon where the best I can get is 50mbps for $50 USD.
It is completely random what internet speeds you can get. The only constant is the monopoly of Comcast & AT&T.
If you list two things, it’s not a monopoly.
A duopoly can be a distinction without a difference if there's territory-dividing collusion, or even just game-theoretically "optimal" moves by the players towards a sub-optimal state for the customers.
Yep and here is a useful calculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl%E2%80%93Hirschman_I....
They have different words, use them.
Two can be as lonely as one, but it’s still two.
Re:Valve Steam Deck
by systemvoltage on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:42PM
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I pay $59/month for 1 gbps through Sonic in Oakland (SF Bay Area).
I do as well in SF. And it’s 1gbps SYMMETRIC.
USD35 for 1gbit symmetric fiber here! Non US.