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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Useful utility! Enter an address, seems more thorough than DSLReports and other sources.
Re:One more category (Score:5, Informative)
The USA is basically (for those in Europe) the size of all of Europe ... and Ukraine. It is also, apart from the coast lines, mostly rural. This fact is borne out in that people in dense populated areas (coastlines) get options while people in "fly over" country don't.
And while this doesn't compute for our European Cousins, it is no less a factor why some people have decent (or even great) service, and others only have the choice between bad and worse.
So, quit comparing some dinky country in Europe (or other small country) to the whole of the USA. And some of us live in "backwater" country, and like it. At least we have that choice.
Re:One more category (Score:3, Informative)
Ok, let's compare Australia then. Similar size to the US (AU is almost exactly the same size as the lower 48), and 1/15th the population. Large cities are all on the coast, and the interior is mostly rural and small towns.
And I, in my mid-size, inland (not on the coasts) Australian city have over 30 ISPs to choose from (mostly ADSL2+, a few VDSL ... no cable in these parts though).
No doubt you'll find some differences between the two countries that negate the point I'm trying to make (which you'll always be able to do, obviously no country is ~identical~ to the US). But it's not a dinky country in Europe - it has similar size and scale and the same Federal/State type of government, so it's more comparable than most.