FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
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Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#2Download only, yes? And what about the busy-Sunday night problem? This seems so besides the point.
Cable at an apartment building I visit is often 300mbps, but Sunday evening it can have horrible jitter and lag and much slower speeds. It's incredibly frustrating; common sites can be basically unusable.
This also feels like it's setting a bar where most DSL systems wont have any chance of competing. In cities I can be more sympathetic (put in more pops) but in rural areas, this feels like a barrier that is extremely cost prohibitive to make happen, for not great reasons.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#3This is nice, but with increased speed, they should also require ISPs do not impose a data cap to be considered broadband.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#4This is nice, but with increased speed, they should also require ISPs do not impose a data cap to be considered broadband.
Why shouldn’t there be a cap? Bandwidth isn’t free.
It’s sad seeing people on a forum called hacker news having no idea how networking infrastructure works.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#5This is nice, but with increased speed, they should also require ISPs do not impose a data cap to be considered broadband.
So that someone's grandma who hardly uses her connection can subsidize your extreme over-consumption of digital media?
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#6Download only, yes? And what about the busy-Sunday night problem? This seems so besides the point. Cable at an apartment building I visit is often 300mbps, but Sunday evening it can have horrible jitter and lag and much slower speeds. It's incredibly frustrating; common sites can be basically unusable. This also feels like it's setting a bar where most DSL systems wont have any chance of competing. In cities I can be…
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Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#7This is nice, but with increased speed, they should also require ISPs do not impose a data cap to be considered broadband.
Why shouldn’t there be a cap? Bandwidth isn’t free. It’s sad seeing people on a forum called hacker news having no idea how networking infrastructure works.
Because it's next to free (no additional cost to run the infrastructure we're already running) and we're nowhere near the limits of our existing infrastructure's overall bandwidth limits right now, as evidenced by the lack of caps not affecting quality of internet service for the entirety of 2020, when more people were online per hour than at any previous point in history.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#8happy to see upload get the attention it deserves. nothing is more annoying than uploading a video to $messagingapp or $socialmediaplatform and it just taking forever due to slow upload. a nice quality of life improvement to shove that quicker to someone.
even stuff like backing up computers, or running security cameras that you can view remotely or that record to the cloud (encrypted) are really hampered by upload speed. there's a lot of cool stuff one can do if only one had the speed to do it with.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#9This is nice, but with increased speed, they should also require ISPs do not impose a data cap to be considered broadband.
So that someone's grandma who hardly uses her connection can subsidize your extreme over-consumption of digital media?
Yes, for the same reason that roads used by daily drivers are subsidized by remote workers.
Re: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
#10Honest question: at what point, with real life usage, is 1 Gbps actually necessary for home users?
I find that latency rather than throughput is what determines my perceived quality of an Internet connection. But am curious how others think.