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
If you have 100mbps of non bandwidth capped internet in America, you’re doing damn good for yourself.
But what if it costs $95/mo, there are no alternatives and the price has nearly doubled in 10 years from $55?
I sure don’t feel that great.
I pay the equivalent of $64 for 1 gigabit.
American internet isn’t all crap. I pay about $70 for Gigabit.
You must live in a large city or near one
You can get business gigabit for $90 a month where I live.
Funny thing is that is the rural option, in town I have to go with Comcast and pay $160 a month for half a gigabit
It’s a lot better than Australian internet. I’m getting 20-50mbps
I had 2Mbps (yes, bits, not bytes) until 2020. Then I moved out. Pretty sure that my parents house still only gets that same speed. And this is in fucking Germany, a pretty densely populated country.
As a Swede, I usually get well above 3 Mbit/s on 3G, and I have a 100/100 Mbit/s fiber that I often use to its full potential, and that’s with a VPN on. I really thought Germany had better infrastructure.
I’m sure I’d get a faster speed than that in a piece of string.
Honestly that sounds like the cable was damaged, was that really the actual target speed?
That sucks too…
I can ONLY get 1gbit, where i live. (Denmark)
Denmark is also around 1/200th of the size of the us.
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”.