FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps
FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps
First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet
FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps::First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet
My God is American internet awful
It's a lot better than Australian internet. I'm getting 20-50mbps
That sucks too...
It depends. I grew up in the country and my parents still have to use phone hotspots for internet which works well for streaming but forget about any gaming. I live in a fairly major metropolitan city now and my internet is pretty good, although I've noticed my download speeds get throttled sometimes
It can be, but I live in a semi-rural neighborhood outside of a town that doesn't even have 100,000 people and I'm still getting 400/400 on fiber (and can get higher speeds if I want to pay for them).
In rural areas, yes.
In cities, Gigabit internet is abundant and only mildly expensive. Here in Phoenix I pay $60/mo for 1 Gbps down, 50 Mbps up with no bandwidth cap from Verizon. Not the best but far from "awful".
I pay $65 for 1Gb symmetrical and no cap. But I have options for ISPs. My parents in rural Washington have the option of wireless internet at 10Mbps for $70/month or HughesNet satellite for some ungodly amount with worse speed. Starlink is still not available there.
If you’re going to initiate a new rollout of tech, why rollout already out of date stuff? Just mandate fibre to the prem and 1 gigabit minimum from the start. It will take 15 years to complete anyway!
That's way too hard for this country.
How will the isps get another government grant to roll out the next bit of outdated tech?
How will the isps get another government grant to
roll out the next bit of outdated techoutright refuse to update any infrastructure and perform stock buybacks instead?FTFY. Google the Connect America Fund if you want your blood pressure to spike. ISPs are notorious for taking taxpayer money and doing fuck-all with it.
Sure, but how is that going to make more money for rich people?
They probably had to fight for that, because the ISPs don't want to.
What about net neutrality? Does anyone remember net neutrality? I'd like that back please. I'd also like the opportunity to publicly flog Ajit Pai as long as we're dreaming.
I would be content with just stealing his comically oversized Reese's mug.
Remember when he immediately caught shit for his rebuttal video because he used GOT footage without permission?
I literally wrote a bot to spam messages promoting Net Neutrality while that was up for vote.
Sucks it didn't work out, but I surely tried.
That was one of the reasons given for ignoring the comments and killing net neutrality. He would have done it regardless though.
How is that not already the standard?
Symmetric, right? Right?!
Not only that, 100Mbps is so 2018. Quit pussy-footing around, FCC, make the standard 1Gbps, both ways. And make bandwidth caps illegal. I'm lucky enough to not have one but for years I had to put up with a 1TB limit from those Cox suckers until Verizon came to town.
You know what, I'm just happy some progress is being made if 100 becomes minimum. A lot of rural areas have much less than that. I wish 1gbps was the new minimum though.
Right???
Didn't we already pay for the infrastructure?
is this about that Connect America Fund where the ISPs took all the money and did fuck all
Several times actually.
You'd think that would be criminal
Welcome to the United States, where consumers built the internet infrastructure that monopolies profit from and fight tooth and nail to prevent communities from providing high speed internet to its residents. Capitalism at its most corrupt: privatize profits and socialize capital costs and losses.
Gigabit symmetrical or GTFO.
I pay something like $110/mo for my symmetrical gigabit fiber line (plus static IP). This should be the standard, not 100Mbps.
I pay €32.5 for gigabit, but honestly it's overkill for most people. I only got it because a competitor of my ISP was doing a promotion which got me from a 50 mbit (60-70 in practise) at around the same price to a gigabit for a year.
I honestly only used it to its full potential downloading a tv show because a certain streaming provider who pulled the plug on family sharing decided my house isn't my house and I couldn't watch the shows I paid to watch.
why just 100Mbps? why not 250? that’s still pretty simple for them to do. also: net neutrality, dammit!
100Mbps?? NOT ENOUGH
I have 150Mbps and pay $570 Mexican Pesos which right now is about $35 USD but last year was $28 USD due to the Peso doing significantly better and the USD kinda crashing.
Still, it's not enough for my client work, piracy and live streaming needs since it's non symmetrical, I only get 30Mbps upload.
I got receipts 📜:
I'm in the UK right now and pay £60-ish for gigabit internet (and 100mbps upload) which usually is actually around 800-900 Mbps, don't know the exact price because it includes a phone system my parents pay for
$40 for 2Gb/s symmetrical FTW!
Lucky bastard
Also, where, and how?
sometimes I really worry for the US
I lived just outside of Tucson, AZ during Covid. When we bought our house, we were assured that xfinity was extending service to our house and beyond shortly. We tried getting the service and they sent out a truck to do a site survey. Xfinity said “lol no”. Our options were CenturyLink dsl with top speed of 3mpbs down and 768k up or a narrow band wireless repeater service from town. None of those were able to even support a 480p stream of tv, let alone the needs of having to switch to 100% remote. We wound up having to use a shitty 4g LTE router that used some sort data plan through AT&T. 150gb data cap and beyond it throttled down to 3g speeds. At the time starlink was accepting people into a beta but not as far south as we lived in the desert.
Luckily we were able to sell that place and relocate to a much better place. We now have municipal broadband with no caps and a static ip. They are building out fiber services to the underserved rural places around town first and then building here and I’m excited to someday have fiber.
It is bullshit that muni broadband is sued to oblivion while the incumbents are allowed to provide shitty internet while red lining rural and poor areas.
I’m so glad I was able to find a place with municipal internet. It was one of our criteria , but one we were prepared to give up on as we were getting more desperate in our search for a house.
I pay 30$ for 1Gb/s down, 250Mb/s up. It's usually around 40$ in the Czech Republic.
And? CableOne promised us 300Mbps, we already had 100. Then they went and renamed themselves Sparklight...
Guess what went out the window?...
And at least 50 up?
I'm paying $25 fo a 20mbps ADSL, but I only get 16down/1up due to the cable degradation.
This is pathetic.
Gigabit fiber at $75 a month here. I would hate to be sub 100 mbps in 2023
Now they can steal all your data even faster