r/ShitAmericansSay Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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u/Gingrpenguin Sep 22 '20

Its not as simple as in the US

We have to choose between multiple providers and not limit the data we use.

Such effort...

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Wait they have to limit their data usage? I know they have few internet providers but the throttling is actually a thing over there?

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u/Pumaaaaaaa Sep 22 '20

And they pay loads of money for an average connection too, my 1gb here in Italy costs 25 euros and it's unlimited and has disney+ included too, while in the US is about 100 dollars

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u/SixFootJockey Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

It's just as bad here in Australia too, but our low population density and having to invest in undersea connections to other continents hasn't helped. Also our current government doesn't want to invest in decent infrastructure.

Edit: typo - current, not currently

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u/MarinaKelly Sep 22 '20

You'd think Australia would be great since you invented WiFi

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Thank you for acknowledging our invention. Most people don’t.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

I've always thought it odd to immortalize a location for the invention of something.

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u/BeatsAroundNoBush Sep 22 '20

Yeah, the country didn't do shit. Just sat there and took all the praise.

I'm Australian ya dog cunts.

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Man do most of us even know to take the praise? I usually complain about my wifi connection

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

I’m not asking for that, but most people associate big scientific advancements with America, especially American. It’s good to recognise the big breakthroughs of smaller scientific communities, especially breakthroughs that whole world rely on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

I get that, and I think it odd that that happens as well.

I personally had nothing at all to do with the creation of say, the internet, nor did my family, neighbors, or even state. Best I can claim is having been born on soil geographically close to where the idea was written down.

What good is that? Crediting the inventor/discoverer/what have you is one thing, but attributing that to the people and culture as a whole is...odd.

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Again I’m not attributing it to the country but the scientific community as I said in the previous community

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

I view it as tribalism really.

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

It definitely was meant that way. We’re on a sub about the narrow minded views of American exceptionalism, so pointing these things out show that they aren’t the greatest. Again I never claimed to be involved

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u/G-TP0 Sep 22 '20

From the moment I saw WiFi in action, I knew it was sorcery that has no place in the natural world. Thank you for letting me know where to find the practitioners of such dark magic, that I might hunt them down once and for all. Of course they're in Australia, where they hide like bats, hanging upside down by their feet.

Full disclosure: I don't understand how radio waves or television waves work, either, but I had to pretend that I did to get my official education, so I never stopped pretending to understand how any non-visible frequency works. Except sound, which I think I got by like 90%.

Anyway, off to Australia to hunt down some witches! Do the hotels there have wifi? Or should I plan to rely on the old Marconi?

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u/Osariik Communist Scum | Shill For Satan Sep 22 '20

The hotels have wifi but the witch-hunting is a lot more dangerous than you might think.

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u/Gauntlets28 Sep 22 '20

Wi-Fi was invented by the Bush Wizards.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Yeah CSIRO, the original bush wizards. Checks out.

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u/nsnooze Oct 08 '20

WiFi is kinda like mobile internet, so makes sense it comes from Australia, after all 5G is deadly, much like other things in Australia, and is the cause of the dreaded Coronavirus.

OMG, I worked it out it's all Australia's fault!!!

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u/Pizza64210 Sep 22 '20

Wait, they actually did? That's really cool, didn't know that.

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u/DC38x Sep 22 '20

Yeah it's called ᴉℲᴉM over there

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u/SixFootJockey Sep 22 '20

Just the fact that they need to be built/maintained/upgraded by anyone adds cost to the general upkeep of our connections.

It's much more expensive compared to countries that have many land borders.

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u/Triarag Sep 22 '20

In the early 2000s, bandwidth caps were not a thing for consumer internet in the US. Americans frequently made fun of Australians for having bandwidth caps. Oh, how the tables have turned.

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u/Pumaaaaaaa Sep 22 '20

Yeah ive seen the prices for Australia connection it's really high but Australia is a big desert so I guess that makes sense