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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Man I really hope so. I'm in a 25/3 wasteland. My dad, a town over, is even lower. About 7/0.8.

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

Beats the 1.5/0.25 centurylink provides us

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

I live in podunk nowhere, but if the amount of time since I've had that speed could buy things, I think it'd be old enough to buy cigarettes.

Also I'm surprised CenturyLink is even still alive.

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

They rebranded as Lumen, so they could provide the same shitty service to people who were already wary of them.

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

And rebranded their fiber AGAIN as Quantum... (And somehow got q.com... So jealous...) Presumably because even as "Lumen" they've screwed their brand...

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