FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    For 13EUR/month I sure could get faster speeds, but also fairly small data limits. Here I get 300GB/month.

    Maybe the nearby cell towers are overloaded, I don’t know. But at midnight it can go up to 45Mbps. The speed peaks around 2-3AM.
    Also there’s the free national roaming in Orange 2G/3G network. So if I really need faster internet speeds, I can use Orange 3G HSPA+ which is pretty reliable, although with 20GB/month cap.

    • sznio@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Cellular is always overloaded in rural areas. Mobile ISPs always take on more customers than their infrastructure can handle.