Not relevant to the point but that is a terribly color coded graph, there are multiple indistinguishable pairs

Edit: worse than that, how do you tell New Zealand, Germany, and the Netherlands apart? Norway, Spain, Iceland?

Oh, I dunno. 🫨 Why don't you tell me why what applies to a subset doesn't necessarily apply to the superset.

How exactly are facts and maths cop outs?

There are states with better fiber deployment than Switzerland.

But generally, think of it as highway design. That's the American way, after all, and it also stinks.

Switzerland: mostly point-to-point where each home gets its own dedicated fiber strand. Upgrading to 25 Gbps can be as simple as swapping optics(multi spectrum) on each end. Some places in USA do this. Some offer 100 gbps, symmetrical.

United States: mostly point-to-multipoint (PON: GPON/XGS-PON) One fiber is split among 32–64 homes. Everyone shares the bandwidth.

And they say Americans don't have socialism. But that's the problem. When there's socialism it's the public subsidizing corporations.

That affects latency and throughput how?

Not much.

That's absolutely logic, certainly.

By which logic do you mean? My guess. You don't know.

Oh, that's where you go dark.

This is apparently a different China than the one I've worked in for the last decade.

You may have a theoretically fast connection - but even then it's not particularly cheap (I pay less in Romania and Thailand for FTTH,) and the actual qualify of Internet bandwidth is beyond atrocious for any non domestic traffic (i.e. anything crossing the great firewall.)

Which is not to be negative about China, it's got a hell of a lot going for it - I'd live in China before I'd live anywhere in the US - but great Internet is not one of those things.

Lol... Ok...

China has been able to leverage new roll outs while US deals with cost sunk fantasies.