FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps::First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet
I had 2Mbps (yes, bits, not bytes) until 2020. Then I moved out. Pretty sure that my parents house still only gets that same speed. And this is in fucking Germany, a pretty densely populated country.
I’m sure I’d get a faster speed than that in a piece of string.
Honestly that sounds like the cable was damaged, was that really the actual target speed?
As a Swede, I usually get well above 3 Mbit/s on 3G, and I have a 100/100 Mbit/s fiber that I often use to its full potential, and that’s with a VPN on. I really thought Germany had better infrastructure.
Rural internet is absolutely terrible in Germany. City internet is better, but still rarely goes above 250 down, and less up. Maybe you can get Gigabit in a couple larger metro areas like Berlin.
Also all of our mobile internet has terrible data caps. An average phone data plan on the cheaper side won’t even break into double digits, usually being 2-5GB. You get something that’s more akin in price to a regular internet plan, 50 bucks or so, you get more, but still something far from usable (and coverage/reception for that can be quite spotty in lower density regions, too), so that’s not even an alternative.
Admittedly, speedtests said my Internet was slower than 98% of Germany, few years back, so speeds this slow are an exception, but there’s also a fuckton of areas sitting at 16 or 25Mbit/s. More usable, but still not exactly modern standards.
