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FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 Mbps

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Post by arcticbull »

Sunspark wrote: post #122
superkuh wrote: post #26

The problem, in the USA for most people, is Comcast. Downspeed hardly matters. It's been plenty for decades. Upload speed has stagnated. I uploaded as fast in 2003 as I do now in 2022. And as others have said, it's not so much about 1 fast provider as many providers and choice. In my comcast monopoly my plan started at $60/mo in 2011 and without any changes on my end and no change in my upload speed that price has in…

If Starlink is in your area, this is an option worth looking into.

So far it appears that only early beta customers of Starlink are getting anywhere close to useable service and as soon as it opens up to more customers the links quickly saturate and you're back to whatever everyone else is offering - except with higher latencies. Something about Shannon's Law. It's better than nothing for folks who don't have any other options, but it's not a solution to this particular problem.

The best solution I've seen to date is city-run fiber.

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Post by inferiorhuman »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #281
inferiorhuman wrote: post #189

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It sounds like Sonic, but Sonic's 10 Gbps offering is AFAIK symmetric. Of course Sonic's gotten a lot more cagey about specifics and I don't have any 10G equipment so it's hard for me to tell.

It’s actually just “up to” 10 Gb/s. And my 10Gb hardware is pretty janky so my speeds might not be representative of the full capabilities.

Pretty much any consumer internet service (including Sonic) will be "up to".

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Post by eternityforest »

Strom wrote: post #260
adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #132

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what's the obsession with 4k? 1080p abd 1440p are way more common.

It's obsession with technological advancement. There was a time when people were resistant to even 720p, saying that 480p is more than enough and they can't even see the difference.

I think 1080p is probably the good enough point, and 720p was already there for more casual stuff like Zoom calls and mindless CrapVids.

4k does seem to be just a bit better though.

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raisedbyninjas wrote: post #249
jrochkind1 wrote: post #244

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> The most obvious thing that we already know we're missing out on is video streaming quality. You've possibly already noticed… I only pay for the lowest tier of Netflix which does not give me HD, and I have literally never noticed a quality problem watching on my TV (which I have no idea the resolution of, honestly). Apparently I don't care or notice much about quality. I actually have no idea if i'm the majority or…

We do the same. Subscriptions and rentals are 1080p. 4k versions of content usually cost twice as much. A few simultaneous compressed 1080p streams easily fit in the slowest broadband service I can get.

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Post by epmatsw »

imoverclocked wrote: post #285
epmatsw wrote: post #246

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Talk to your local government. We were in the same situation, and it turns out Comcast was legally required to service our house, they just didn’t want to (because of the expense). A few days after getting the government involved we had a trenching crew on-site.

I’m not sure who to begin talking to for that. That would be amazing though…

In our case googling “Comcast service ” pulls up a page from the city government’s site that has contact info for our Community Connectivity Manager. That person, when contacted, got us hooked up.

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Post by radicaldreamer »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #102
radicaldreamer wrote: post #86

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These days, fixed wireless mmwave antennas can do 300-1Gbps symmetrical for about $100 per antenna.

What services are providing at those prices?

Monkeybrains in SF provides up to 1Gbps symmetrical at $35/month. The antenna cost is about $100 and labor/installation is $150 ($250/total).
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