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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by vel0city on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:18PM (#15750199)
Only a little over 50% of households have at least 2 high-speed internet choices[0]. I wouldn't call that the "vast majority".

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/50-mi...

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by rhino369 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:32PM (#15750309)
25mbps is an arbitrary limit that leaves out ATT and Century links ADSL2+ service, which is fine for most uses.
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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by jermaustin1 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:58PM (#15750527)
You will have a hard time streaming Netflix/Hulu/VOD on anything < 25mbps.
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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by rhino369 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:34PM (#15750814)
Should get you to 720p.
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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by lovehashbrowns on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:07PM (#15751079)
I tried that. It really doesn't, especially when there's congestion. I've had to go down to 240p on Youtube before, especially if I was trying to do something else in the background, e.g. watch Youtube while doing homework, watch Youtube while browsing Reddit/news/any other website with giant JS/CSS/media files/ads.

I was primarily a student then, and trying to skip around in Youtube/online video lectures was an insanely frustrating experience.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by Lev1a on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:08PM (#15751087)
In a day and age where most of the TVs and monitors sold right now are 1080p and up, 720p is not an acceptable maximum resolution for streaming anymore.
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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by thirdsun on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:57PM (#15751472)
Well, now add a family to the equation and those 25 mbps are anything but enough.
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