Not thanks to Net Neutrality, sure. However, trying to say you, in America, don't benefit in both speeds and price from Net Neutrality is absurd. Corporate and social culture is vastly different, and incomparable between Europe and the States.
For example, try applying your view to another issue:
"Norway. Safe, sound. Not thanks to gun regulations!"
Sure, Norway has roughly equivalent gun rights as the US; despite this, it's safer to a vast degree. The culture between the United States and Norway is far too different for the same rules and regulations to apply, and the outcomes of them being put in place wouldn't be particularly close to the same.
Note that gun regulations are actually rather stricter in Norway than in the US. For example, automatic weapons and many high-powered guns are completely banned.
That said, I do believe that the relative safety of Norway is due to other, cultural factors. (I'm Norwegian.)
Since 1934 automatic weapons were required to be registered with the ATF, in 1986 they stopped registering new ones. You can still get pre 1986 automatic weapons, but you have to pay out the nose for them.
I don't think a registered automatic weapon has ever been used in a crime.
I'm pretty sure Mononokay picked Norway specifically to derail discussion with a Breivik/gun control flame war. It only stated an opposite position and then changed the subject. Seems like a bot.
I can’t figure out what to do with my near gigabit access. My hdd is slower than my internet so file transfers can’t sustain it for long. My Usenet binary downloading server also can’t keep up when par checking.
And it's even synchronous. Funny to read their router specs though. 800Mbit wireless and 4 LAN ports with 1Gbit each. How would you even use that? I would be so glad to even have fibre and not that crappy DOCSIS shared medium crap.
You can, especially in the used market. I got one for $12 and a dual port one for $30. An Aquantia thunderbolt external one is ~$250, and a PCIe card is $99.
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Why do I suddenly feel like I've been duped? My American internet is something like 5% this fast and costs twice as much.
For example, try applying your view to another issue:
"Norway. Safe, sound. Not thanks to gun regulations!"
Sure, Norway has roughly equivalent gun rights as the US; despite this, it's safer to a vast degree. The culture between the United States and Norway is far too different for the same rules and regulations to apply, and the outcomes of them being put in place wouldn't be particularly close to the same.
The same applies to regulations on other things.
That said, I do believe that the relative safety of Norway is due to other, cultural factors. (I'm Norwegian.)
I don't think a registered automatic weapon has ever been used in a crime.
Consider that, at least in the US, local internet monopolies typically offer far less for far more.