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Re:FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 ... by evandijk70 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:08AM (#32115642)
Fiber was installed here, and they provide three tiers - 50Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s, for 45, 50, and 55 euro each. We took the 100Mb/s.

I have no idea what I would use 1 Gb/s for, using it as definition for broadband would be premature. Than again, Bill Gates said that: '640 kB RAM ought to be enough for anybody'.

Re:FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 ... by Youden on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:52AM (#32115815)
At 1Gbps the internet becomes close to indistinguishable from a local network, opening up interesting possibilities like a "NAS" that's actually just the cloud. That extra bandwidth, combined with the low latency of fibre, can make it possible to easily interact with a remote PC as if it's sitting in front of you, so you could do away with a home PC or workstation and use a thin client to access a beefy machine on-demand in some datacenter.
Re:FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 ... by BenjiWiebe on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:55PM (#32120346)
For those use cases, latency is IMO a bigger deal than bandwidth. For remote PC, 20mbps 5ms latency would beat 10Gbps 50ms latency.

And due to the speed of light, you can't get latency arbitrarily low.

Re:FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 ... by cbozeman on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:04PM (#32120409)
But you can dial it down pretty damn well. When I had Frontier in Texas, I rarely saw latency over 19 ms to any location in the United States. 35+ ms and I was fussy... amazing how quickly fiber can spoil a man.