<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'>It can exceed 25 megs, but it isn't common. Certainly not common enough to throw hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars at the long tail.<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>"Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net><br><b>To: </b>nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, May 28, 2022 3:26:53 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers<br><br>Once upon a time, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> said:<br>> Most households have no practical use for more than 25 megs. More is better, but let's not just throw money into a fire because of a marketing machine. <br><br>4K TVs are cheap, and 4K streaming content is plentiful, and usually<br>runs 15-20 Mbps. The average household has more than one person, and<br>they may want to watch different content.<br><br>And that's today. Gaming streaming is ramping up (which needs both good<br>bandwidth and low latency), and there'll always be things you haven't<br>considered popping up.<br><br>Saying most people don't need more than 25 Mbps is like saying 640k is<br>enough for anybody.<br>-- <br>Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net><br></div><br></div></body></html>