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The minimum standard that should be expected by carrier-grade services (which, by definition, carriers should manage) is five nines reliability.
Metronet connections should be one gigabit, minimum. Rural nets should be 10 megabits or better. Ideally a lot better.
Users shouldn't need to measure speed, the FCC should be imposing minimum conditions and policing it.
10mbit/s symmetrical. Please.
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I'd start with minimum standards (Score:5, Insightful)
The minimum standard that should be expected by carrier-grade services (which, by definition, carriers should manage) is five nines reliability.
Metronet connections should be one gigabit, minimum. Rural nets should be 10 megabits or better. Ideally a lot better.
Users shouldn't need to measure speed, the FCC should be imposing minimum conditions and policing it.
Re:I'd start with minimum standards (Score:1)
10mbit/s symmetrical. Please.