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Broadband is not a speed.
Do you know how fast you were going?
Faster than broadband...
Faster than "[...] the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway"?
(Quoted: Tanenbaum, 1981)
according to the FTC or FCC whichever one it was recently raised the defined speed of a broadband connection.
It's not symmetrical yet though. Which is weird.
Eh, I would say it’s to be expected. A lot of infrastructure still relies on coax/DOCSIS which has its limitations in comparison to an all-fiber backbone. (This post has some good explanations.) However it wouldn’t surprise me if some ISPs argue that “nobody needs that much uplink” and “it helps restrict piracy” when really it’s just them holding out against performing upgrades.
it really shouldnt be though, this is going to be in effect for like, the next decade or two. FTTH is literally fresh off the presses for most suburbanites, and city dwellers, i see no reason that this standard should be so antiquated anymore.
Literally only incentivizes ISPs to keep rolling out shitty infra that's slow as balls everywhere that isn't suburbia.
There are limitations to the technology, similar to saying 3 times faster than sound.
Also broadband as a regulated term would have speeds tied to that definition.