[Westbrook]

> Broadband in rural areas. A subject near and dear to my heart.

Me, too.

We get 1.5 Mb DSL, enough to watch youtube with stuttering.

Better than dialup by a factor of ten, but still very slow for 2016.

[ronnie raygun]

The parasites want thier vig and that is it!

[butterdezillion]

And the amount of data is limiting if you’re not a billionaire.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I have 3. I can watch Netflix without stuttering, but the resolution is reduced to keep the flow going.

You would think ad companies would be smarter, but often the ads I see on YouTube stutter because the ad companies either don't know how, or refuse to lower the resolution to keep the flow going.

I suspect that the 25M minimum is more to make sure that the ad companies can keep streaming loads of crapola to everyone's computers.