Apples and Oranges. Hong Kong and S Korea is a much smaller more densely populated city/country.

We don’t want fiber to the door. We want fiber to the pedestal and then cat6a to the house. Fiber is too fragile to have it to the house.

It is because ATT and Comcast has been fighting them every inch of the way.

No, it will only go as fast as the as the slowest interface on the outside plant’s gear. Most user’s will see no difference. Maybe some on some streaming services. A big bottleneck is at the server that is giving service. It is not always the infrastructure that is the culprit.

It is like this because local government have set up city franchises so the cable companies can have a monopoly in that city. It is not entirely the greedy cable companies.

If you can not debate the argument attack the person. Why is it funny that he works at a meat packing plant? He could be a meat packer, so what? He could also be in I.T. or in management making more $$ than you. HoldtheKinjaDoor, please state your political affiliation, occupation, and salary please.

I liked Neil at first... but then came to the conclusion that he is a pompous person who is an expert on everything outside his field.

You messed up here -> “The that agency helped get us to the moon oversees the people in charge of forecasting the weather and it oversees our nuclear energy matters. “ 

This is Gizmodo. No need to tell us who Wolverine is.

I vote diabetic coma

That is GPS, it is a different technology. It uses the time transmitted from multiple satellites. Your phone then does math, to tell you where you are.

I was mowing my yard in the back yard and somehow butt dialed 911. I walked to the front yard with a cop at my front door. He had knocked on my neighbor’s door as well. My signal to the cell tower is always at 1 bar at home. I think they can do a decent job at finding you. 911 should be able to cross reference your…

If you know how to serve wine right, you twist the bottle as you are about to pull the bottle away. No drips.

The one thing that gizmodo did not mention is that in the same article they also mentioned Iron Fist as getting an unusually low score. I think that Iron Fist has a low score due to the campaign that Gizmodo has ran against it.

Japan is not their preferred country name. He should have called then Nips.

It does not run IOS, so it is not an Ipad competitor.

“In fact there’s hardly any security software at all for iOS, which shows you what a tight ship Apple runs” - Wrong, Apple has tight control over any software product that it allows on itunes. They just don’t want any competition. Also, the same reason that you can not find a good wi-fi analyzer for the iphone;…

You could also use a network cable to a Ethernet over Powerline adapter. Or also a MOCA (Multimedia over coax ) adapter

So, they are trapped with 6Mbps down. So, they can have a Netflix stream running at HD, and about 10 VOIP calls... those poor bastards...

Ten years ago Gore predicted more frequent major hurricanes and stronger hurricanes. Since then, we have had a major hurricane drought. http://www.livescience.com/50704-hurricane-drought.html