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This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
by lorddoig 11y ago
This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
- jpatters 11y agoI hear you. In Canada, "broadband" is 1.5Mbps down and 640Kbps up. Hilarious.
- grecy 11y agoThe CRTC is about to review that, likely in early 2016 it will be at least 5Mbps down and ~1 up. We (Northern Canada) are holding things back :)
- jpatters 11y agoNot just up north. I'm in the Maritimes and its the same here.
- grecy 11y agoI mean our infrastructure up here is holding the CRTC back from upping the minimum requirements. It's going to take a massive investment to bring northern Canada up to those speeds, and the CRTC is going to pay for it. I work for the telco up here....
- PeterWhittaker 11y agoThat's the government definition, but are better plans available for reasonable cost? A countryman of mine posted in reply to your comment that Canada defines broadband as fairly slow, by modern standards, but I get 28Mbps/1Mbps right now (over cable) and my daughter just ordered a 25/10 DSL package (from the same service provider; two different physical plant owners, same ISP over top). Both plans are reasonably priced, I think (at least compared to the big incumbents and to what we are used to :->).
- jusssi 11y ago28/1 is a crazy DL/UL ratio. It's probably beyond the point where the narrowness of the uplink slows downloads. I wish the official broadband definitions included something about the uplink.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe official definition, at least the FCC one, addresses speed in both directions.