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Only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband....

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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    mass_debater wrote: »
    In the USA only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new FCC definition, good news, but I'm surprised they settled for only 3mbit up

    http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/fcc-chair-broadband-must-be-25mbps-and-isps-are-failing-to-deliver/

    it's only a proposal as yet, until it becomes the "definition" we can expect lots of lobbying from the US telcos to change it....


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    mass_debater wrote: »
    ... USA only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new FCC definition, ... surprised they settled for only 3mbit up
    Cable.
    Even 200Mbps down is easily possible on Cable. 3Mbps up is because Up uses lower QAM and only 60MHz max, often only 40MHz spectrum. The downlink shares nearly 800MHz spectrum with Digital TV, and can easily be over 300MHz of spectrum at very high QAM.
    Business potentially need higher upstream / upload speeds, the 3Mbps isn't bad for minimum upload (about x10 typical DSL). They may water it down to 1Mbps which is rare on ADSL, only less than 900m VDSL reliably does 1Mbps upload, rarely ADSL2+ unless about 500m or less from Exchange and low crosstalk. Really 25Mbps + 3Mbps minimum is max 500m VDSL on good copper. So they are looking at mostly cable or fibre and VDSL from basement of apartment blocks fed by fibre.


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