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Re:Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director ... by renewiltord on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:48PM (#24277599)
I had that speed to the US West Coast over Hyperoptic gigabit in 2017 from London. Very steady. There are qualifiers that are missing from the claim, I agree.
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Re:Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director ... by justinclift on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:20PM (#24278410)
Agreed. A work colleague at Red Hat in the UK back in ~2014/2015 had a FTTH home internet connection, and he could download from public servers at 70MB/s.

So, ~20MB/s isn't "simply unobtainable" though I agree the figure is suspiciously like USB2 speeds for cheapo flash drives. eg the ones with slow write speeds

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