New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Tue Jun 1 21:26:34 UTC 2021

My family farms. I can see some of the cattle out of my office window. 

That's not really a thing. You might be able to find a couple of magazine articles with it, but farmers don't do that, even when capacity is available. Not because they can't, but because they don't find any value in it. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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From: "Andy Ringsmuth" <andy at andyring.com> 
To: "nanog list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:46:04 PM 
Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections 

> On Jun 1, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote: 
> 
> Show me an average end-user that can tell the difference between a 10 meg upload and a 1 gig upload, aside from media-heavy professionals or the one-time full backup of a phone, PC, etc. Okay, show me two of them, ten of them... 
> 

How about the farmer using an HD or 4k drone with WAPs on his center pivot irrigation sprinklers to monitor crops? Or monitor the cattle herd that is currently growing the next T-bone or porterhouse steak you’ll be eating? 

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