New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Fri May 28 01:04:47 UTC 2021

I'd love to see 100/100, but I don't see it happening anytime soon ...
especially for $50.

I pay $150/month for 300/8 at home and that's the best upload I can get
where I live ... in a major city.

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:41 PM Eric Dugas via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

> I'm not in the US but in Canada it's been 50/10 since 2016 and we're just
> "almost" there yet. IMO the target should have been more like 100/30 or
> even 50 of upload.
>
> 100/100 might be a bit short sighted considering it'll take years to
> accomplish the necessary last-mile/distribution upgrades in rural areas.
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:31 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> What should be the new minimum speed for "broadband" in the U.S.?
>>
>>
>> This is the list of past minimum broadband speed definitions by year
>>
>> year  speed
>>
>> 1999  200 kbps in both directions (this was chosen as faster than
>> dialup/ISDN speeds)
>>
>> 2000  200 kbps in at least one direction (changed because too many
>> service
>> providers had 128 kbps upload)
>>
>> 2010   4 mbps down / 1 mbps up
>>
>> 2015   25 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up (wired)
>>          5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (wireless)
>>
>> 2021   ??? / ??? (some Senators propose 100/100 mbps)
>>
>> Not only in major cities, but also rural areas
>>
>> Note, the official broadband definition only means service providers
>> can't
>> advertise it as "broadband" or qualify for subsidies; not that they must
>> deliver better service.
>>
>>
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