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FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps(arstechnica.com)

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Standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up replaces old 25Mbps/3Mbps benchmark.

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CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org
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About time. Maybe the maps will be updated correctly and people can now see just how pathetic those ISPs have been.

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Gaia [She/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
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That’s funny, could they also punish my ISP for giving me 30Mib/s but when I run a speed test it magically shows that I should be getting over 160Mib/s? I don’t think anyone but the government should be allowed to run the infrastructure cuz this is criminal

Also if I don’t do the speed test it drops all the way down to 996Kib/s but I have to keep doing the speed test to keep it fast enough

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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They really should require it to be 100M symmetric. Slow upload speeds make it nearly impossible to use online storage.

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Mio@feddit.nu
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How about latency?

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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i literally cannot get internet slower than 100Mbps symmetric here in sweden lol, astounding that providers in the US are so reticent to improve speeds.

it reminds me of the american rail freight industry, it seems they would prefer to dismantle the entire infrastructure and become investment companies instead…

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