[AndyCalling]

Well, I'm not so sure. We now have to be careful when buying an new US product that states you need a broadband internet connection as a minimum requirement. That means many games, as they will now be working to a 1meg upstream standard.

By the way, I believe the internet network was first brought online by the US military. They obviously built their invention on the science and technology that came before but the internet itself was surely then invented in the US. I may be wrong in my assumptions, perhaps the internet network was activated first somewhere else but that's not the common story.

The US invented the nuclear bomb, using foreign scientists and even more foreign science and technology. A number of countries had all the pieces of the puzzle. The US did first put them all together though. It would be far easier to say the US didn't invent the nuclear bomb than the internet, the arguement is stronger, but when the US pressed their point by dropping them on Japan the rest of the world found their arguement fairly convincing I am told.

Vanman, there's no point posting diagrams of downstream speeds. The point of the US definition is that it seeks to stop providers disguising a slow upstream with a fast downstream, which is exactly what VM does. It is a good aim and a weighty arguement in favour of the definition. How much can you take away from a chair before it's not a chair anymore? I suggest you can't remove two of the legs and then claim it still meets the definition because half of it is still good.