Gizmodo posted an article about internet speeds across the U.S. broken down roughly by state, and looky at this:
And how does Gizmodo describe the Treasure State? “The metropolitan Northeast, Florida, and most of Arizona come in pretty strong, while the enormous internet hole called Montana is pinned between the techy Northwest and the suddenly oil-rich North Dakota.”
I’m sure that some people will see this map and think, “Holy crap, Montana internet speeds SUCKS! Why would anyone live there?!”
Having spent the last 3.5 years in the telecom/ISP fields, I think this is just a touch misleading.
Care to see a speedtest from work?
SHHHHHHH! Don’t tell non-Montanans that we actually fast internet – let ém think we really are a black hole – that’ll keep them out!
Alaska is so low it didn’t fit on the map. My DSL is still measured in kbps.
Don’t you go knocking our inner-nets here in Montanny! Why I jus’ love my new 14.4 kbps dial-up connection. Why only last month I had to take the telly-fone handset and place it in my 300 baud cradle! With this new-fangled PC modem card, I can jus’ plug my telly-fone cord straight into the ‘puder and dial this here AOL inner-net thang jus fine!
WIN ^
We’ve got slow speeds in AR based on this map; but I don’t feel like it’s slow. We don’t have lags in video or anything.
BAHAHAHAH Ron’s comment above is perfect.