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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by razakel on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:10AM (#13192031)
>And realistically no consumer needs more than that.

Yet.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by lostboys67 on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:06AM (#13193276)
By your argument all homes and house should have a 56kv 3 phase electricity supply

What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business

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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by poooogles on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:48AM (#13193546)
>What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business

2 different people watching high definition video at a high bit rate.

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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by scholia on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:34AM (#13193923)
Having multiple users certainly increases the need. However, my experience is that speed increases bring diminishing returns.

Going from dial-up to 2Mbps ADSL was a huge jump, and ADSL2 also made a big difference. However, for a single user, there's not really that much difference between 20Mbps, 40Mpbs and 80Mbps. You have a faster connection to the exchange, but you're still limited by the speed of the net and the speed of the servers you connect to.

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Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband by lostboys67 on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:44AM (#13194519)
Not so sure I live in a BB nospot with a max of 3.5Mbs and we can watch 2 iPlayer streams with no problem.
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