BrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoFCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymorearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1431arrow-down17cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1424arrow-down1external-linkFCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymorearstechnica.comBrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-squareSmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 years agoSince it takes so long to change the “standard” it should be set to 1-2GB per second or have it set to increase by 10-20% per year or something.
minus-squaresci@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 years agojust like things like minimum wage?
minus-squareISMETA@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoSounds good but there isn’t any consumer equipment that can handle 2GB/s. Even 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches are super expensive and I don’t think we have anything that can do more than 10Gb/s in the consumer Networking space at all .
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoProbably because there isn’t demand, cause service is so slow. Kind of a chicken/egg scenario.
Since it takes so long to change the “standard” it should be set to 1-2GB per second or have it set to increase by 10-20% per year or something.
just like things like minimum wage?
Sounds good but there isn’t any consumer equipment that can handle 2GB/s. Even 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches are super expensive and I don’t think we have anything that can do more than 10Gb/s in the consumer Networking space at all .
Probably because there isn’t demand, cause service is so slow.
Kind of a chicken/egg scenario.