FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

L4sBot · 11 months ago

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) · 11 months ago

Honestly I am really happy when I get such high speeds. 25Mbps feels blazing fast for me. Everything loading/downloading so quickly. An average song in the FLAC 16/44 format would download in just 10 seconds instead of up to 5 minutes.

And there’s already even 10Gbps available. I can’t even imagine that. You could download a whole 4K movie in a matter of seconds!

Anyway, this is what I have:
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I can only dream.

@partizan@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

well, if you have the money for it, you can get starlink, but its far from cheap. But since you are at cellular network, a 4G receiver with good placement can much improve on those speeds. I assume you are in some signal shadow, and swan never had too good coverage outside large cities… Maybe try some other operator ?

u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) · 11 months ago

For 13EUR/month I sure could get faster speeds, but also fairly small data limits. Here I get 300GB/month.

Maybe the nearby cell towers are overloaded, I don’t know. But at midnight it can go up to 45Mbps. The speed peaks around 2-3AM.
Also there’s the free national roaming in Orange 2G/3G network. So if I really need faster internet speeds, I can use Orange 3G HSPA+ which is pretty reliable, although with 20GB/month cap.

@sznio@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Cellular is always overloaded in rural areas. Mobile ISPs always take on more customers than their infrastructure can handle.