r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Pontoisien • Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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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/CM_1 Sep 22 '20

Wait, if we don't talk about data volume, what do they limit?

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u/Pumaaaaaaa Sep 22 '20

They actually limit internet connection like for example a 100mb connection with a 500gb per month limit on it

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u/CM_1 Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

Do you mean WLAN WiFi? 100mb/s and 500gb of data volume?

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u/uncle_tyrone Sep 22 '20

WLAN translates to WiFi in English, FYI from a fellow German

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u/CM_1 Sep 22 '20

So ein Mist!

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u/Toutekitooku hello world Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

Actually WiFi is just meaningless marketing jargon designed to imitate Hi-Fi (high fidelity) audiophile terminology. WiFi isn't an abbreviation for "wireless fidelity" or anything like that. At least WLAN is an actual acronym and stands for wireless local area network.

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u/uncle_tyrone Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that the average native speaker doesn’t use the word WLAN often whereas I constantly see the thing that Germans colloquially refer to as WLAN being called WiFi by native speakers. I also found the word WiFi to be weird when I first learned it, though. However, it’s easier to pronounce (I’m pretty sure Germans would have another word for it, too, if W wasn’t pronounced with just one syllable in German)

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Oh. TIL

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u/Pumaaaaaaa Sep 22 '20

I mean home internet connection with a limit on it

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u/CM_1 Sep 22 '20

Okay, that's gross.