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Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
- Rodsterlings_cig ( @Rodsterlings_cig@kbin.social ) 41•1 year ago
Give us the fiber that the taxpayers already payed for!
- Obsydian_Falcon ( @Obsydian_Falcon@kbin.social ) 26•1 year ago
Amen dude, over $500 billion after inflation paid for nationwide fiber, and telecom companies just pocketed that shit. We should’ve been at 500mb down, 250 up since 2015.
- heyfluxay ( @heyfluxay@nerdbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Yes please!
- CmdrShepard ( @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ) 22•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure when they upped it to 25mbps a few years ago it was a wildly outdated figure at that time. 100mbps is more reasonable but still pretty bad for “high speed broadband.” Hopefully something good comes out of this but I won’t hold my breath.
- Alto ( @Alto@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
What would be ideal is forcing ISPs to lay fiber with the money they’ve already been given, or give back every cent they received for it. Their choice.
- HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
10Mbps down was my ADSL connection in 2007. Brings back memories!
- steebo_jack ( @steebo_jack@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
I got fiber in a my rural small town and funny enough i have more choices here compared to when i was living in a large city and only had one choice…
- blazera ( @blazera@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Pfft, an evaluation of prices
“Yep, theyre pretty high. Carry on”
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Sure isn’t! But I’m only getting 12M here in the boonies. I guess high-speed internet is one of those things you can’t try in a small town.
- Montagge ( @Montagge@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
8M here, which is a dream compared to the 0.5M I use to have a few years ago.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
0.5M would be utter hell for streaming services. It would literally take 48 hours to watch 48 Hours.
- Brkdncr ( @Brkdncr@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Starlink and soon Amazon. I get 100/10 regularly on starlink. It’s not great but it’s quite usable.
- SpunkyBarnes ( @SpunkyBarnes@geddit.social ) 4•1 year ago
My house is gigabit, everything else as a standard should be as well, IMO.
- RocksForBrains ( @RocksForBrains@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
It should be, but you underestimate how many communities have limited access still.
We would have more line laid but telecoms pocketed the money since Congress didn’t put any performance requirements in the bill or contracts.
- SpunkyBarnes ( @SpunkyBarnes@geddit.social ) 4•1 year ago
Oh, no, rural broadband and the telco money pit that was going to make it a reality are very real and I consider myself lucky to live where I actually have “choice” in my provider options.
As for performance clauses, who’s to say whether they were there and stripped out in committee.
- grahamsz ( @grahamsz@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah, i’ve reached the conclusion that gigabit is enough for now. I can get 1.2, 2.5, 6 and 10 at my house but i’m staying at 1 because it’s honestly plenty fast for a family of 3 - even with 2 of us working from home.
- okbin ( @okbin@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
me, whose internet speed is 500 kbps - 5mbps: 👁️👄👁️
(my vpn is slow as shit, but also my internet, without a vpn, is allegedly 25 mbps)