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Standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up replaces old 25Mbps/3Mbps benchmark.

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[–] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

About time. Maybe the maps will be updated correctly and people can now see just how pathetic those ISPs have been.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Century Link advertises 12mbps in my town, charges you for 12 delivers 3 with the occasional 6.

I have both T-Mobile home internet and another wireless service. T-Mobile gives me up to 50, but averages closer to 18. The other wireless (WiPower) is 15.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Geeze. Where is this? I have multiple gigabit providers to my house.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rural NM, south of Albuquerque.

We just got fiber, but so far I have not heard from anyone that has actually gotten it yet.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

That’s rough and hopefully these revised maps will start to show that better.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Shit. they charged me for 9Mbps and delivered 0.5Mbps when I had them

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 8 months ago

They really should require it to be 100M symmetric. Slow upload speeds make it nearly impossible to use online storage.

[–] bipolarben 14 points 8 months ago

This is why Xfinity just sent me a note saying they're graciously increasing my upload speed to 20mbps. How nice of them. 🙄

[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Fiber internet has spoiled me. 20mb would be unbearably slow, it is shameful that this is even considered to be the standard.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

i literally cannot get internet slower than 100Mbps symmetric here in sweden lol, astounding that providers in the US are so reticent to improve speeds.

it reminds me of the american rail freight industry, it seems they would prefer to dismantle the entire infrastructure and become investment companies instead..

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 2 points 8 months ago

How about latency?