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FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by raggi »

extrapickles wrote: post #89
shados wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People forget that when you get a tool (like an internet connection) that is orders of magnitude more powerful (10mb vs 100 or 100 vs 1000), you don't get to do the same things you used to 10 times better/faster. You get to do completely different things. 56k connections used to be fine when web pages were static text. 1mb connections were fine when the pinnacle of multimedia was MP3s. Netflix in 4k HDR was not even…

Speed of light makes gaming hard to do remotely without building datacenters every 100 miles. Other than that, the part of the computer you touch is heading towards a hybrid dumb terminal, where the terminal has plenty of local compute to keep the UI snappy, offloads the tricky compute and any long term storage.

You can cope with more than 1ms to the data center, latencyphile.

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #47

I used to ask why anyone would ever need 100 Mbps, until I got 100 Mbps. Then I said the same about gigabit, until I got gigabit. Now I've moved from New Zealand, with its amazing internet infrastructure, to Australia, where I'm lucky to get 10 Mbps, and it keeps dropping out. I couldn't even download a folder from Dropbox last night because my connection was too slow and flaky. It should be the priority for governme…

What can you do with 1gb that you couldn‘t do with 100mb? I got 50mb and for the first time can‘t think of a reason to upgrade.

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by trevyn »

kimmel wrote: post #90

I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have a choice between 2 wireless companies that will gladly lock me into a 2 year contract at ~$100 a month with a bandwidth cap of 200-300 GB a month. I have asked around and it has been this way for ~10 years and the local ISP has no intention…

What speed is your LTE?

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by kimmel »

trevyn wrote: post #93
kimmel wrote: post #90

I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have a choice between 2 wireless companies that will gladly lock me into a 2 year contract at ~$100 a month with a bandwidth cap of 200-300 GB a month. I have asked around and it has been this way for ~10 years and the local ISP has no intention…

What speed is your LTE?

According to a chart of the local LTE mobile internet options the max speed is 10Mbps. The fast test on my phone just reported the max speed as 1.9Mbps.

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by pasbesoin »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #47

I used to ask why anyone would ever need 100 Mbps, until I got 100 Mbps. Then I said the same about gigabit, until I got gigabit. Now I've moved from New Zealand, with its amazing internet infrastructure, to Australia, where I'm lucky to get 10 Mbps, and it keeps dropping out. I couldn't even download a folder from Dropbox last night because my connection was too slow and flaky. It should be the priority for governme…

There are plenty of places that want to.

What we need are less lawyers and lobbyists -- and captured markets spending our inflated fees to turn around and defeat us.

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by perl4ever »

oneplane wrote: post #61
rayiner wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much of my county doesn’t even have water and sewer pipes. People just spend the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars needed to build septic systems and wells and accept that is the trade off for living in the country.

In my country there are no houses with septic tanks or wells. I guess it really depends on your location and government on how infrastructure is handled.

What is your country, where they have no wells?

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by s73v3r_ »

LogicX wrote: post #5

Surprisingly, in Myrtle Beach, SC we have multiple high speed providers choices: HTC (as in htcinc.net, a local telco cooperative offering gigabit fiber), or Spectrum, who just minutes ago I heard for the first time that their new default tier in our area is 100mbps. Not sure if they go much hiher though, because a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that…

But you have to realize you’re in the minority in this country.

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by s73v3r_ »

microcolonel wrote: post #40

While it's healthy to understand these stats, consider that some people knowingly move to places which are not thoroughly served by broadband providers, and some of them don't really care. I know and talk to enough people who knew, in advance of making a choice to move, that they were moving somewhere with absolutely no home terrestrial broadband, and did so anyway. Often mobile (or even satellite, which is generally…

But did they move because of the lack of broadband, or in spite of it?

And by the standards of your last paragraph, anything beyond a nutrient slurry would be considered a luxury. Not a compelling argument.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

trevyn wrote: post #93
kimmel wrote: post #90

I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have a choice between 2 wireless companies that will gladly lock me into a 2 year contract at ~$100 a month with a bandwidth cap of 200-300 GB a month. I have asked around and it has been this way for ~10 years and the local ISP has no intention…

What speed is your LTE?

Plus you can rarely use LTE as general purpose internet. Data cap, limited speed, sky high bill, or something...

Re: FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

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Post by lostmsu »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #92
toomanybeersies wrote: post #47

I used to ask why anyone would ever need 100 Mbps, until I got 100 Mbps. Then I said the same about gigabit, until I got gigabit. Now I've moved from New Zealand, with its amazing internet infrastructure, to Australia, where I'm lucky to get 10 Mbps, and it keeps dropping out. I couldn't even download a folder from Dropbox last night because my connection was too slow and flaky. It should be the priority for governme…

What can you do with 1gb that you couldn‘t do with 100mb? I got 50mb and for the first time can‘t think of a reason to upgrade.

At those speeds, its nice to start thinking about decentralization. At a GB speed, your network is about as fast as a typical HDD. So whatever you store on an HDD can now be twice as fast to load if your friend has the same thing.

It would actually be way better, than HDD, because you could do smaller requests. Hard drives take about 10ms to respond to a random access. Your friends could have the thing on SSD or even cached in memory. So you'll get a significant speed up.

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