Hi from the developed world.. just checked, the slowest available broadband here is 200Mpbs/20Mpbs. Default is 200/200, I and most people I know went with 1000/1000Mpbs.
how close together is everything in your lands?
100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
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#152I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad internet in US, supposedly one of the most developed countries on Earth, is. I have commercial (ie high priority), 600Mbit/120Mbit broadband with extremely stable (under 15ms, over 99% of th time) round trip to most of the Poland, for equivalent of 20 USD per month. I know its not the same everywhere in Poland, but consider I also have three mobile internet plans. One of t…
I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad ________ in US. You could replace that with a lot of things unfortunately. If you put "and expensive" at the end, it would probably be just as correct.
it’s not baffling. we decided to glamorize billionaires rather than the amazing country we could have had if we’d stopped at millionaires as the height of (economic) status and reasonable wealth accumulation. a billionaire simply cannot allocate capital as efficiently as a thousand millionaires, so we choke on our own collective greed.
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#153I would say very few residential customers need more than 10Mbps upload. For 100Mbps you could run about 50 Zooms simultaneously. Who does that? Unless you are massively uploading (likely illegal content) who needs greater than 10Mbps upstream at home?
It's not hard to generate a large volume of data with today's digital cameras (video & still). Backing that up to the cloud at 10 Mbps takes forever. Oh you want to switch cloud backup providers now? It will be another year before your initial backup completes.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
>They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money. They can just use the free money they've already been given. I mean they could but they wont, and there was no reason to with Ajit Pai running the place. I daresay they'll have to be sued into compliance to do it now. Not that I object to that: they need to refund the taxpayers' money or do what the…
They’ll just claim something something 5G and will be back in the feds good graces. Honestly the cable industry is a monopoly and has grown beyond government oversight. This needs to change but we don’t have any other option than nullifying anti-municipal fiber laws and start laying down new lines.
This is why starlink is so important. I can not wait to stop paying Comcast.
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#155I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad internet in US, supposedly one of the most developed countries on Earth, is. I have commercial (ie high priority), 600Mbit/120Mbit broadband with extremely stable (under 15ms, over 99% of th time) round trip to most of the Poland, for equivalent of 20 USD per month. I know its not the same everywhere in Poland, but consider I also have three mobile internet plans. One of t…
I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad ________ in US. You could replace that with a lot of things unfortunately. If you put "and expensive" at the end, it would probably be just as correct.
namely healthcare. it's an absolute disaster if you have to do anything beyond the simple "annual health examinations."
I literally hate going to the doctor because the various billing departments are often nightmares to deal with.
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#156wow - our internet is that bad we set a low fucking bar
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#157> The funding is going to a mix of cable, fiber, and fixed wireless providers, plus SpaceX's Starlink satellite network. I think cable providers should be left out. They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money. They can just use the free money they've already been given. Instead, the funding should go to existing munipical fiber ISPs to expand t…
Cable isn't the only problem, companies like AT&T are too.
I don't think the money has to go to municipal fiber though. I'm currently in a rural city running 1Gbps/1Gbps with no data caps because of a small company got extra funding.
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#158I remember having 100 Mbps up/down in 1998. That's 23 years ago :D
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#159This would be 100 Mbps faster than the non-existent cable that stopped 4 miles from my dad’s home in Wisconsin. They went down a rural road 40 years ago hooking up houses who wanted and stopped when they reached a home that said no. They had wireless for a while but the company shut down. Starlink is his only real hope.
Re: 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
#160While we're at it, can we convince the Australian govt. too please?
Something like 10/5 is considered "fast enough".