FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, future goal of 1gbps [pdf]

Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by c2h5oh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:33PM (#38104710)

Starlink will not qualify - even in area with no congestion where you have to problem maintaining >200Mbps down your upload speed averages around 15Mbps

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Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by freedomben on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:01PM (#38105169)

yep, my average is about 88 Mbps down and 7.4 Mbps up on Starlink. The frustrating thing is it fluctuates a lot. At one point I could get about 160/10.

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Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by olyjohn on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:22PM (#38105487)

It's a bummer, but considering that all I had before Starlink was 768down/128kup, this is a godsend. It will never be as good as an actual good wire-line connection, but whatever, that's not really it's point. Anybody who has cable or fiber, or even a fast tier of DSL should not really bother with Starlink.

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Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by freedomben on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:44PM (#38106434)

Yep, agreed. I am extremely glad that starlink exists, and I'm willing to pay double for starlink that I would pay for a connection limited to 12 Mbps down

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Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by c2h5oh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:16PM (#38105405)

As far as I can tell you can't meet the 20Mbps upload requirement anywhere.

I'm in rural middle of nowhere in central Europe, at a latitude with very dense Starlink coverage and I'm almost certainly the only Starlink user in my hex - the speeds I'm getting are pretty much unaffected by network congestion.

Even in those ideal conditions upload is 10-15Mbps 95% of the time, even when download is closer to 300 than 200Mbps

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