FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps

Been hearing on the radio all kinds of Comcast ads like "we've raised our internet speeds for free!" I knew there was something else at play.

Fuck that, instead of making them increase their imaginary "up to" numbers, make them advertise contractually guaranteed minimums. Id rather have a 25 mb minimum over a 100 mb maximum that usually sits around 8 mb.

and 20Mbps for upload

What we actually care about.

100mbps symmetric should be minimum standard. 100mbps down with 10mbps up is worse than remote islands with mud huts. Seriously, I was on a Pacific island that looked like what an after hurricane photo op does, and they had direct access to the fiber cables. So gigabit symmetric internet ONTs glued to the side of huts for a few bucks a month.

100Mb/s is still pretty abysmal.

Cool, now make them use bytes as the system of measurement and we'll be on to something.

Altice (Optimum) took this opportunity to cut upload speeds from 35mbps to 20 under the guise of the "free upgrade". You want your old upload speeds back? Oh that's their most expensive tier now.

I care more for stability and low latency, not so much speed.

Offering me a faster cellular or satellite connections doesn't interest me.

100Mbps is still very slow. Much better than 25Mbps, but still slow.

*cries in Australian*

My parents pay like 40 dollars per month for 1Mb down and like .2 Mb up

I'd like to see a big government push to provide municipal services in every single metro area and extend it by whatever means into rural communities.

Xfinity keeps raising rates, I'm paying more now for just internet than the cost of basic cable, internet + digital voice was back in the 00s. While around 800 down, it's still only about 40 something up, and has been like that for years and years.

I think we desperately need competition and if the government were to provide it, that'd be just fine.

Aww, that's cute.

-posted from my 768k $80/mo broadband.

But only 20 ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ up !!

!! :-(

Here I am getting 5KB/s in California 😏

I'm sitting here fine at 30Mbps. Can have two streams no problem.