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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's a lot better than Australian internet. I'm getting 20-50mbps

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

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

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That sucks too...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can ONLY get 1gbit, where i live. (Denmark)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Denmark is also around 1/200th of the size of the us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with 1080p tbh. Also If I really wanted to stream 4k I could use data (around 80mbps 4G)