The FCC has redefined the minimum requirements of broadband to 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. That’s a huge jump up from the previous minimum of 200Kbps but is fitting given our video streaming, downloading and cloud living times. As for myself, I could barely live with 4 Mbps down but then the FCC reminds me that 24 million people lack access to high speed internet, so I shut up.
Troy MacDonald
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 9:53 AMSo that means that many many people, like me, who can only get ADSL1, and at speeds of 1.5mbps, no longer have broadband? If the NBN had been rolled out already, this would be fine, but now we’re all lower class
Karl von Muller
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 11:02 AMToo bad this is a US article.
Tristan
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 11:17 AMThis is an american article dude and doesn’t apply to us. Also given away by the fact that their 24 million doesn’t have high speed access ;)
Justin
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 10:06 AMI’d love to be able to get 4Mbps down. My ADSL2+ is at a whopping 2.1. Australian internet sucks
Julian Wong
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 1:25 PMSeems like most of Australia now don’t actually have broadband internet access by the US FCC’s standards. It’s sad to see that just as we catch up, we are left behind again.