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Comments on news posted 2009-09-01 18:28:50: Earlier this month the FCC announced they were looking for help defining broadband, given they can't craft a national broadband plan without a concrete definition. ..
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 | | Symmetrical 5/5 A symmetrical 5/5 I think is a good middle bar. It makes the DSL and cable providers both have to up the speed a little and might get the United States up to around 10th place in the world, up from its dismal 23rd last I had read? Is that right still? US is 23rd? Unsure. | |
| Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
1 edit | Industry has failed at setting bar! Anything less than than 1Mbps / 1Mbps with reasonably low latency should not be considered actual broadband! That's today, 5/5 would be a reasonable level for 2015, 25/25 for 2020. | |
| elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| 144K Symmetrical I know its not a popular position on a power-user forum, in blue states, or among anti-corporates.
But if I lived 10 miles outside of town, and my current choices were dialup and satellite, I would find 144K more than satisfactory, if it was $100 a month or less.
There simply isn't any application, necessary to sustain life, run a business, or promote economic growth, that requires any more speed.
There may be luxuries that use such speeds, but we don't need to use taxpayer monies to pay for them. | |
| | trish2
join:2008-03-24
Laurens, SC | Re: 144K Symmetrical Broadband should be two gigabits per seconds at a minimum. Anything else is not broadband...period. Either aim high and be the best or be shot down by the competition. | |
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