Shouldn't 100Mbps be STANDARD broadband speed for the US homes by now?


I watched this video today and noticed broadband companies are still dragging around a paltry 7Mbps down, 4Mbps up as "broadband", which many people STILL don't even get yet...isn't that a joke? That just seems so ridiculous compared to where the US stands technologically and culturally (internet usage wise) as this point. 100Mbps should be the standard "basic" internet by now for home. Heck, 1Gbps should be standard in all schools (some have 100s of people sharing much less than that)! I know it's been talked about before, often, but wow, still irks me because it's so ridiculous.


I've been really into setting up a homelab and on a video spree about data centers, supercomputers, internet of things, new tech coming out, so forth lately. You get the impression that we're really pushing computers & the internet into every facet of life 10x more than the rest of the world; it's almost like breathing at this point for US citizens. Hell, it seems like a new data center is being built every day. Plus there is a constant, massive amount of techporn in the news, being blogged about, discussed and admired, so forth. But then you see how utterly shit internet speeds are for the majority of people and realize it's an extreme juxtaposition! What a disconnect on what we as a nation are apparently building/promoting/interested/focusing on, and what the majority get out of it. I suppose that's pretty characteristic of us.



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