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FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Thats great but can we demand some decent UPLOAD to?

cries in 300down measally 10 up

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Upload is the biggest nobody gives a fuck in this ISP provider shit despite its importance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In the linked pdf, it does mention the benchmarks.

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

Although, unless I complain, they fail to give me even 300mbps down.

I miss Google Fiber :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Found the Charter/Spectrum customer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sitting here with my cool 11 up from spectrum 😎

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

GIGA-SPEEDS!! ... Such bullshit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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