FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps::First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet

    • Ser Salty@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        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?

        • Ser Salty@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Yes, genuinely target speed. Germany is just incredibly behind when it comes to the internet.

    • Psythik@monyet.cc
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      1 year ago

      Wow I had that in 2008. Damn that sucks. You can’t even stream 4K HDR video.