FCC Redefines Broadband Internet To At Least 25 Mbps, Faster Than National Average

CBS 5KPIX CBS SF Bay Area ^ | January 30, 2015 12:05 PM | CBS 5KPIX CBS SF Bay Area

[WhiskeyX]

WASHINGTON (CBS SF) – The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to change the definition of what constitutes high-speed internet, adopting a standard 2.5 times the current national average.

[hoosierham]

POTS is(was?) the most reliable in that it still works in power outages due to being powered from the central office whic has(had) huge battery banks.

The fast fiber optic system require a customer powered translator box so when power is lost so is communication. The little battery in the phone company supplied translator box is supposed to last for 8 hours of emergency voice service.And we have outages every year that are longer.

All”progress” isn’t.

[tet68]

Gee, I’m paying for high speed internet on
Windstream at all of 13mps.
Sites I go to constantly seem fairly fast but
new ones take forever to load. Could it be
my browser? IE?

[GreyFriar]

Dear tet68.

I have no idea, I’m a historian, not a techie. But I can tell you that the US Army Center of Military History volume on the official Army history of the Vietnam War: November 1967 - October 1968, should be published within the next two years. This volume covers the Tet offensive.

G-F

[discostu]

I don’t know if the FCC should be defining it. But we do have pretty pathetically slow internet in this country.

[Interesting Times]

This doesn't seem all that sinister. Keep in mind that they're aiming at a moving target.

That seems a bit slow.

[tophat9000]

Your only as fast as the slowest network segment you must pass through to reach the site you're going to...

And the speed across each segment is going to differ with to the time of day congestion....

And the path itself may be different at different times

So great your ISP upgrades the segment between your house and the ISP but did they upgrade thier gateway bandwidth between them and the Internet?

Because with many ISPs really that's the choke point. Your connection to them may be fast but how about between them and the Internet?

And the the roadway metaphor of the Internet is very very valid... there's a lots and lots of variables why your slow between you and any other site

like going to work.. its going to be slow as hell at 8 a.m. rush hour versus going there at 3 a.m. on Saturday.

then to you get to a website now we're dealing with their server capacity and again time of day matters just how busy is that site when you visiting it ?

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Those of us who are in rural areas, with homes 1/4 mile or more from the road, will never get wired broadband to our homes. Not in our lifetimes at least.

To us, 5mb is an unimaginably high speed and probably always will be, unless it's wireless which is capped at 10-20gb per month.

[TomGuy]

When I was still running WinXP, I noticed web pages got slower and slower. I noticed I could no longer run several streaming video windows.

When I finally replaced by desktop and laptop machines with Win7 machines, the slow loading disappeared.

Recently, I have noticed some webpage videos will not run in certain browsers. I quit updating Firefox & Palemoon last year. The new versions conflicted with other things (Flash, PDF, weather add-ons, etc.). I am now getting messages on some video sites that my browser is out-of-date and won’t be supported soon.

If I upgrade to Win8 or 10, I know I am going to lose some software programs and add-ons that will not work with these new OS systems, and there are no comparable replacement software programs. I lost a laser printer when I upgraded from XP to Win7 because no 64-bit driver was made for it.

[tophat9000]

Question....On trying to get high speed internet up to your rual location

Are you familiar with the term “demark” and extended “demark”... in simple terms a demark is the point telco hand of service to the customer(or even another telco).. a customer can then run there own copper or fiber from the telco demark and extended the demark to where they needed it to be.. of course that's all the customers responsibility

im assuming you have a private road up to the main road...an at that same main road is the power and telco service?...

is there a point that telco could deliver the internet service you're looking for and then you run your own copper a fiber or even Point to Point wireless or WiFi and extended your demark to your property for that service?

believe it or not these “last mile” issues are a problem even in big big cities....

Had a customer we're trying to get fiber service to in Hollywood one time, unfortunately the pole was on the other side of Santa Monica Boulevard so we had to pay 60 grand to have it trench across the road.

in most big city high rises office buildings telco just delivers to one point called an MPOP..minimal point of presence on somewhere on the bottom floor... so that were the telco demark is..

then the customer is responsible for extending the demark up to their offices.. either paying telco extra or paying the building management or doing it there self

[tet68]

Thanks for telling me. Will be looking for it.

[GreyFriar]

My pleasure in passing on the information.

Here is a link to two chapters from the volume that have been published separately and are online:

http://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/vw.html

All of the official Army Vietnam War volumes that have been written are available online from CMH at:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/usavn.html

[zot]

Verizon may use this as an excuse to cancel their DSL and make all their customers go to FIOS. They have been trying to do that.

[Klemper]

Are they Hayes compatible? +++ATH0 *CLICK*

[Gene Eric]

Indeed. All your baselines belong to the government.

[minnesota_bound]

ATT is still pushing DSL for $19.95 a month for just 768k
K and not mb