Brian McCullough

There are many news stories going around about internet speeds in the United States losing speed over the next few years due to heightened video usage online. The United States already has some of the slowest Internet speeds among other countries, I would guess that in a line up the US would fall number 8 or 9 behind counties with much faster Internet speeds. I was wrong, see the chart below, the U.S is 15th.

This whole thing about slow Internet speeds came to my attention when I realized that I could not view a new website because my connection was to slow. That website is http://www.thehdweb.com. The site looks interesting and have a nice feel to it, I also noticed that they are working on increasing their website viability with a bunch of lame banner ads, I am almost positive that they are going to be disappointed with the results.. Unfortunately I have tried to use the site in many different locations and yet the site always tells me that my connection is not going to cut it for a full experience. After continuing the site runs ok but lots of buffering time, nonetheless the nice wide screen makes up for it in some ways. Overall it seems like they have had slow growth, Stumbleupon users have given the site one star, they have a ton of inbound links, that does not really mean anything, I would guess that the site is having trouble maintaining users and at that not getting more then 5k a month…ehhh more like 4k users a month.

If you live in many parts of California there is no way that you would be able to utilize the HD web because no Internet service provider would be able to offer it to you. In doing some research I found that Time Wanner Cable does not even list their broadband speeds on their website. I occasionally work in a office out of Los Angeles that says they have a T1 connection and their speeds are completely up and down and can not really use Joost or the Web in HD. When I visited Tulsa, Oklahoma I found that with COX you get the option of under 1MbpsS, 7Mbps or something like 14Mbps, now thats speed. Anyway I will be following this. but for know if where going to waste bandwidth lets get some quality HD site up.