<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Clearly not a residential mass-market service.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE" <lb@6by7.net><br><b>To: </b>"Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"NANOG Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, May 27, 2021 7:30:48 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections<br><br>At least 100/100.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We don’t like selling slower than 10g anymore, that’s what I’d start everyone at if I could.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2021, at 5:29 PM, Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com" class="" target="_blank">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">What should be the new minimum speed for "broadband" in the U.S.?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This is the list of past minimum broadband speed definitions by year<br class=""><br class="">year speed<br class=""><br class="">1999 200 kbps in both directions (this was chosen as faster than dialup/ISDN speeds)<br class=""><br class="">2000 200 kbps in at least one direction (changed because too many service providers had 128 kbps upload)<br class=""><br class="">2010 4 mbps down / 1 mbps up<br class=""><br class="">2015 25 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up (wired)<br class=""> 5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (wireless)<br class=""><br class="">2021 ??? / ??? (some Senators propose 100/100 mbps)<br class=""><br class="">Not only in major cities, but also rural areas<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><br></div></body></html>