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FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps(www.theregister.com)

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

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eatham 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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It’s a lot better than Australian internet. I’m getting 20-50mbps

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Ser Salty@feddit.de
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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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Mr_1077@monero.town
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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.

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Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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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?

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Ser Salty@feddit.de
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Yes, genuinely target speed. Germany is just incredibly behind when it comes to the internet.

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fkn@lemmy.world
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That sucks too…

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Nioxic@lemmy.world
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I can ONLY get 1gbit, where i live. (Denmark)

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Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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Denmark is also around 1/200th of the size of the us.

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

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eatham 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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I’m fine with 1080p tbh. Also If I really wanted to stream 4k I could use data (around 80mbps 4G)

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