FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps
FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps
The commission also sets a long-term goal of raising the broadband metric to 1Gbps for downloads and 500Mbps for uploads.
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100Mb/s is still pretty abysmal.
A 4x increase for download and a 7x increase requirment for upload.
That's a pretty solid improvement, honestly. They also have plans on whne to increase it to 1Gbps down/500Mbps up, so it seems like they are taking it seriously.
It’s long overdue and gigabit should be standard
It is long overdue, as the last update was 2015, when a democrat was President. The GOP refused to do it, and it took some time to seat a new FCC head due to Republican obstruction.
Gigabyte is coming, just not yet. This is a fine incremental step.
We should’ve had it when we paid for it, instead of telecom execs pocketing the money.
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Gigabit
my third world country's internet has a minimum of 100mbps on most internet plans in the cities.
100mbps in the supposed best country in the world is shit, no matter how higher it is than 2003 standards.
lol I've never had anything over 12Mb/s. Currently have 8Mb/s, which costs roughly half than what I use to pay for 500kb/s
I would love to have 100Mb/s. Hell even half that.
Satellite?
DSL
I’m so sorry.
It's interesting. I have a remote place (not where I live) in the least populated, podunkest county in the state (which is saying something). And we were still able to get fibre and 50Mbps out there (and it could be higher, but not really worth the extra money since it's rarely used).
Still within a couple hours of a big city, though. Guessing you're further away than that, or something?
The 500kbps was 15 minutes outside of a metro area of 2.5 million lol
It was decades of CenturyLink making sure no one else moved in on their turf.
Where I'm at now the fiber is a couple of miles away and no cable, but 8Mbps feels lightning fast after CenturyLink lol
That’s enough to watch exactly one 1080p 30fps stream on YouTube and literally nothing else.
That's why I stream 720p when I can lol
100Mb/s is 800Mbps. This is 25Mbps to 100Mbps so 3.125mb/s to 8.33mb/s
Mbps = Mb/s = Megabits per second.
MBps = MB/s = Megabytes per second.
The p is just the /. It’s the capital or lowercase B that makes the difference.
Shit I found the one person who can actually remember the written difference bit and byte
As a computer engineer, I had better know. And don’t get me started on MiB vs MB
Please do I'd like to know more! ;)
kB = kilobytes = 1000 bytes
MB = megabytes = 1000 kB
kiB = kibibytes = 1024 bytes
MiB = mibibytes = 1024 kiB
Generally on hard drive/ssd capacity it will be listed in GiB (Gibibytes). This is the reason a 1 Terabyte drive is actually something like 931 GB showing in your system. Because your system uses GiB and the manufacturer uses GB.
1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
1 GB =~ 0.931 GiB
Edit: I had it backwards, it is fixed now
You messed it up, actually - it's the bi units that are 1024
Shit haha appreciate the correction. I fixed it.
Understandable, and I'm really sorry to have to do this to you... But it's mebibyte, not mibibyte ;D
You know, when I typed it out it seemed wrong. I then proceeded to be lazy and do absolutely nothing to verify. I’m leaving it, I deserve to be ridiculed at this point.
I hope ya know I was just messing with ya hahaha 🤣
;)
- 3.125MB/s to 12.5MB/s
He is right though on megabits to megabytes. Internet speed is advertised in bits/s where files and transfer speeds are usually shown in software as megabytes/s