FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal

Re:FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutr... by revelation on Saturday May 03, 2014 @11:04AM (#7691038)

No end customer has gotten any new pipes, certainly not at the rate Moore has provided for the ISPs. For them, networking equipment has gotten considerably faster, cheaper and easier to manage.

The technology is certainly not the issue here. The entrenched monopolies have all but guaranteed nothing happened in the last mile for 10+ years while their job got easier.

Just take a look around. There are very very few places in the world where you can get 100 MBit (and use it for more than a minute). This was the height of bandwidth technology in 1995. Today, 10GBit is the jellybean standard in networking gear.

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Re:FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutr... by crazy1van on Saturday May 03, 2014 @12:59PM (#7691443)

I think there is too much emphasis on the last mile speeds. I see complaints all the time that other countries have 100mbit links to the home whereas the USA is stuck with 5-10mbit. Personally, I have 25mbit down and Fios is always trying to upsell me to 50. However, I never get those speeds to real internet sites. Sure, my speedtest comes in right at 25mbit.

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Re:FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutr... by robertnn on Saturday May 03, 2014 @12:54PM (#7691412)

I don't know if it was a typo or if I'm not understanding you correctly, but 100MBit is certainly nothing special in Sweden. Plus, I pay only about $50/month for it. Maybe instead of 'world' you actually meant the U.S?

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