| Broadband If I was in control of the situation I would define "Basic Broadband" as the avg median speed of the US network in 2009, which was roughly 2Mbps/640Kbps.
This would be the minimum standard for internet to be called "Broadband".
Personally I think this metric is low, but if we are shooting for a mark for everyone to reach for as the minimum standard.... |
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Franklin, TN | said by mackintire:If I was in control of the situation I would define "Basic Broadband" as the avg median speed of the US network in 2009, which was roughly 2Mbps/640Kbps. This would be the minimum standard for internet to be called "Broadband". Personally I think this metric is low, but if we are shooting for a mark for everyone to reach for as the minimum standard.... I think the point everyone misses is what do you call from your example, a speed package that is 1.9 Mbps Down and / 610 kbps Up? You can't call it dial up because it's still light years faster.
I think the problem is, the large canyon between dialup and any other service is so big that's why those low numbers work. Have you tried to surf the web at 26.4 Kbps? Then try doing it at 256 Kbps, or even 512 Kbps. The difference is night/day with wait times reduced from minutes to mere seconds.
You want a 50 Mbps Down / 25 Mbps Up, then well you are either a power-power user or just like having a lot of speed to show off to friends.
As an ISP myself, customers love the 1 Mbp sweet spot. They can do all the normal web/e-mail/game stuff, and it covers youtube videos and streaming music just fine. People are willing to wait that extra millisecond to save money. 
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| "As an ISP myself, customers love the 1 Mbp sweet spot. They can do all the normal web/e-mail/game stuff, and it covers youtube videos and streaming music just fine. People are willing to wait that extra millisecond to save money"
As an ISP if you really did a survey on the customers I bet you would find you aren't completely right. I have Verizon 1.5/384 DSL. The 1 Mbp sweet spot you talk about isn't that sweet on youtube videos. I have 1.5 Mbps and I have had to wait for video to buffer more then once on youtube. Oh wait that is the high def videos. Still Youtube.
This is the problem with ISPs. They assume they know what the customers want and like. Actually survey the customers, None of the ones with your canned answers to pick from. Let them leave their comment on the subjects in the survey.
Not wanting to argue it just trying to point out that as an ISP you can't say what the people want and love. You can say what you will give them but you will never know what they want and love. Everyone is different. |
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