Comment Re:Do you need gigabit to a household? (Score 1) 85
I'm paying for 100 Mbit, and am getting 90 up and down at 8 PM, (I just checked). When things are draggy it's the server at the other end. What advantage would I get from faster? I have one TV and it's not 4K.
We probably don't need gigabit, but we do need a reasonable lower limit to officially be "broadband" and to measure what counts as "Internet being available to everyone". I have a house where the best internet you can get is a dual bonded DSL connection that totals 12MB down and 2MB up. I don't count that as broadband as while its okay for basic video consumption when I am there, it's not enough for video conferencing, and it is certainly not enough for remote security cameras. There are lots of folks where DSL is the only option, and if you are on connections this slow, I wouldn't want that to count positively in "State of the Internet in America" statistics. It's a valid debate as to what the "minimum" should be to count as broadband. I would personally say somewhere in the 20-30MB up and down range.