<story><title>FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-officially-raises-minimum-broadband-metric-from-25mbps-to-100mbps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been coping with 6 Mbps upload speeds from Xfinity for years now. This morning I got an email from them saying they were raising my speeds at no cost, and after a modem restart I&amp;#x27;m now getting ~20 Mbps up.&lt;p&gt;This whole time I&amp;#x27;ve been told that Xfinity couldn&amp;#x27;t provide decent upload speeds because of infrastructure reasons, but now that&amp;#x27;s been proven a lie.</text></item><item><author>gamepsys</author><text>Zoom recommends 3.8Mbps for uploading 1080p video.  Being able to do 1080p video conferencing is an expectation of broadband. Raising the definition of broadband to meet this basic requirement is clearly a win.&lt;p&gt;I do think 25Mbps up is more than what&amp;#x27;s required for a large number of households (&amp;gt;33%).  I have advised family that 15Mbps is adequate when they needed to do office work from home. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that it will force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure, but I&amp;#x27;m worried the cost of that will be passed onto consumers at a time when inflation has already taken a toll on budgets.</text></item><item><author>notfried</author><text>I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum&amp;#x27;s 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let&amp;#x27;s see how fast they change their statement that &amp;quot;an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households&amp;quot; [1].&lt;p&gt;[1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spectrum.com&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;internet-wifi&amp;#x2F;what-is-a-good-download-and-upload-speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spectrum.com&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;internet-wifi&amp;#x2F;what-is-a-g...&lt;/a&gt;]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>CATV was designed as a one-way pipe. There are filters everywhere in the network that block inbound traffic because there wasn&amp;#x27;t much of a reason for cable boxes to need to communicate with the wider network which meant that the bandwidth on the cable that was &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; usable for upload bandwidth was orders of magnitude smaller than downloads. As Comcast basically rebuilds their network (fiber to the edge), they&amp;#x27;re bypassing and removing all of those filters which means that there&amp;#x27;s plenty of frequency for uploads.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-officially-raises-minimum-broadband-metric-from-25mbps-to-100mbps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been coping with 6 Mbps upload speeds from Xfinity for years now. This morning I got an email from them saying they were raising my speeds at no cost, and after a modem restart I&amp;#x27;m now getting ~20 Mbps up.&lt;p&gt;This whole time I&amp;#x27;ve been told that Xfinity couldn&amp;#x27;t provide decent upload speeds because of infrastructure reasons, but now that&amp;#x27;s been proven a lie.</text></item><item><author>gamepsys</author><text>Zoom recommends 3.8Mbps for uploading 1080p video.  Being able to do 1080p video conferencing is an expectation of broadband. Raising the definition of broadband to meet this basic requirement is clearly a win.&lt;p&gt;I do think 25Mbps up is more than what&amp;#x27;s required for a large number of households (&amp;gt;33%).  I have advised family that 15Mbps is adequate when they needed to do office work from home. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that it will force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure, but I&amp;#x27;m worried the cost of that will be passed onto consumers at a time when inflation has already taken a toll on budgets.</text></item><item><author>notfried</author><text>I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum&amp;#x27;s 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let&amp;#x27;s see how fast they change their statement that &amp;quot;an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households&amp;quot; [1].&lt;p&gt;[1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spectrum.com&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;internet-wifi&amp;#x2F;what-is-a-good-download-and-upload-speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.spectrum.com&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;internet-wifi&amp;#x2F;what-is-a-g...&lt;/a&gt;]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtbayly</author><text>I just got an email saying my provider is bumping my fiber upload from 200 to 400.&lt;p&gt;Seemed crazy to me, but I guess they are just staying well ahead of the crappy competition.</text></comment>