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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Holy shit, there are people still using 25/3? How the heck can you function with that? I’m not entirely facetious: with trackers and ads and “web 2.0” nonsense and way over provisioning , I’ve seen “simple” web sites bog down on much faster connections.

As one data point, my ex had Comcast’s, I think 50/5 or something, and my kids constantly complained about the network over there. Part of it is being spoiled by my true gigabit symmetrical, part of it is the worst company in America, but the reality is that it’s noticeable

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get like 20mbps down and it's fine. Netflix only recommends 15 Mbps for 4k streaming. Lol, looking at websites and stuff is certainly not a problem. About the only time speed has ever been an issue is if I need to download a large game on steam. But I attribute that more to developers just being too lazy to actually optimize their games. I shouldn't need to download 50 gigabytes to play some game when I'm just running at medium settings.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4k requires 25mbit, at 15 your going to lose quality or frame rate.

[–] Galluf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Where are you getting that? This says 15 Mbps.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

I'm sure you're going to have a worse or slower experience particularly when scrubbing, but it should be just adequate.

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