Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps

TeoTwawki@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the linked pdf, it does mention the benchmarks.

  • 2015/current standard is 25/3 Mbps.
  • Proposed to increase to 100/20 Mbps.
  • Future goal is 1000/500 Mbps.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And really, 20 mbps at the bottom tier for broadband isn’t all that unreasonable. We’re talking about the floor level here.

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    • privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      20mbits at bottom tier would be fine, but there are currently top tier cable plans, 1gbps down and still only 10mbps up. Upload speed needs to scale at least proportionallly, if not symmetrically.

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I felt so gaslit by optimum because they advertise 1gbps parallel. But, if you don’t have their fiber offering in your region they’ll happily sell you 1gbps/24mbps for the same price.

  I miss Google Fiber :(

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• stringere@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Found the Charter/Spectrum customer!

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  • FuzzyDuck@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sitting here with my cool 11 up from spectrum 😎

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  • maniajack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GIGA-SPEEDS!! … Such bullshit

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• IndefiniteBen@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t that partly a consequence of the cable internet network design? The existing DOCSIS standards are designed to favour download speeds, so the infrastructure doesn’t allow asymmetric connections.

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I understand correctly it’s not intrinsic to the DOCSIS standards, it’s just how more or less every cable company chooses to allocate channels. Think like a cable company has 100 channels they may be able to use on a given line, and they choose to put 90 of them on download and 10 on upload (numbers are made up to convey idea). Now they have only a small amount of available upload bandwidth and lots of download, but they could have set it up to be 50/50 to have it be equal.

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    • IndefiniteBen@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah okay. So the infrastructure is designed that way, but not because it’s cable/DOCSIS.

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