r/pcmasterrace • u/FreeHugs23 • Aug 20 '26

News/Article FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies | FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be “technologically neutral.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/
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u/Beneficial-Act7603 Aug 20 '26

Holy shit, 2026 ladies and gentlemen.

1Gbs is too fast? Better not tell them about other countries on 10Gbs then...

I'm sorry for you USA.

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u/ProtoJazz Aug 20 '26

I live in a town of 3000 people and get 1.5Gbs, up and down.

We have a gas station, and a general store.

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u/DarkangelUK Specs/Imgur Here Aug 20 '26

I was gonna say, I'm in a shit-ass coastal town in north Scotland and get 1gb FTTP.

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u/BitRunner64 R9 5950X | 9070XT | 32GB DDR4-3600 Aug 20 '26

The village of 80 people where I grew up in northern Sweden has 1 Gb/s. They've had it for like 20 years at this point.

As long as there's fiber, you can pretty much always get at least 1 Gb/s because the media easily handles it. The limitation is just the networking equipment and ISP peering speeds but there's no reason for that to be slower.

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u/never-fiftyone 5800X3D | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 7800XTX | 64GB RAM Aug 20 '26

Except for the amount of tech debt accrued over the time they should have spent upgrading to meet future demand.

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u/b0w3n Linux Aug 20 '26

At this point in time gigabit is over 20 years old technology wise.

10gbps is basically prosumer now, absolutely no reason even rural nowheresville US can't hit those numbers.

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u/December_Flame Aug 20 '26

In fairness, like 1/3rd of our states are bigger than your country and we got 50 of'em.

I'm not excusing the shit state of our public infrastructure and laws around them but I do think the comparison is silly.

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u/Irlut Ryzen R9 5950X, 128GB, 3080 12GB Aug 21 '26

Frankly this argument doesn't really hold water. Rural northern Scandinavia has ubiquitous FTTD delivery and a population density similar to Alaska or Wyoming. This is a regulatory and political problem, not a feasibility problem. 

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u/SnooSquirrels2569 3600, 1080ti, 16gb 3600mhz. Aug 21 '26

What does the size of the country matter?

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u/Beneficial-Act7603 Aug 21 '26

Do you think fiber optic cables are free?

You still gotta run those

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u/SnooSquirrels2569 3600, 1080ti, 16gb 3600mhz. Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Indeed. However its the trenching that costs to most. In high density population areas there is no excuse to not have a Fibre network. However in rural areas they usually do have to be subsidized by the urban networks income

I used to work for a lines company.

Pop density is the primary factor. Not size of country.

Edit: not have

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u/EnergyDrinkStroke 5800x (A620SE) | 5060ti 8GB | 32GB 3600mhz Aug 20 '26

It's still patchy but it's getting there, we are still on 200Mbps but there's an option to upgrade it faster through council programs.

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u/RedditTurnedMediocre Aug 20 '26

Thanks Biden!

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u/pho-huck 9800X3D | 5080 | 32Gb Aug 20 '26

A lot of that was older Obama era initiatives also.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Aug 20 '26

Yeah I live in probably the poorest and lowest pop state in the US, and even when I lived in the middle of nowhere in the mountains I could get up to 7Gbps down/up fiber.

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u/kickthatpoo Aug 20 '26

I live in the boonies in the midwest. I top out at 500Mbs when I'm lucky. I pay for 600. Only one provider that serves my area.

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u/Warslvt Warslvt Aug 20 '26

Maaan. I'm not "boonies", I live just outside city limits of one of the bigger cities in Arkansas and unless I use a local provider, best I can is 100/20 on AT&T. I think they actually slashed it to 50 mb recently. I knew we were behind but fuck me

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u/Goonalips Aug 20 '26

Not anymore. They're downgrading you to ADSL2+ speeds. Welcome to TrumpBand.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Aug 20 '26

Nothing is being downgraded, just fewer areas will be upgraded to fiber or DOCSIS 4.0

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u/Goonalips Aug 20 '26

Yeah bro, that's a downgrade. Previously, it had to meet certain speeds for the FCC to determine whether the goals were being met. But now they're lowering those goals so that sattelite and fixed wireless which have slower speeds can now be considered to have met those goals. So the people in those areas that would have gotten gigabit speeds, can now be connected with satellite or fixed wireless, and the FCC will label that good enough.

Previous gigabit areas won't get downgraded. But rural areas will suffer.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Aug 20 '26

Lower standard doesn’t mean it won’t happen. You think fiber companies that are rapidly expanding such as frontier/verizon fiber are just going to cap their fiber rollout to these standards? No, they are going to remain the same nationwide. This is going to effect a very small amount of greedy local only ISPs just coming to market

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u/MrDeeJayy Ryzen 7 5700X | AMD RX 6700 XT | DDR4-3200 32GB Aug 20 '26

Meanwhile I live in a dense residential suburb next to a golf course and between 3 major shopping centers.

I get 50mbps down, at best. And 1/8th that up. And I cant get any faster unless I want to shell out $4 or 6k for a private fiber line to a rental property that isnt mine.

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u/compound-interest Aug 20 '26

Similar story here. I live in the boondocks and I get 2.5gb/s symmetrical consistently. I use upload speed most and I get door to door spectrum salesman all the time who can’t comprehend why I’d need more than 10mb/s upload. FileZilla? Never heard of it apparently lmao

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u/goodsnpr R5 3600 | 3080ti Aug 20 '26

My town was down graded from a city, we have a 2 or 3 options for fiber. I have 1gb locked in for $50 for 10 years right now.

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u/TheUntetheredBalloon Aug 20 '26

sounds like it’s not fttp; who’s your provider?

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u/goodsnpr R5 3600 | 3080ti Aug 20 '26

T-Mobile fiber, they took over lumnos or whoever it was locally. Other option we have is Verizon

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u/Uncommented-Code PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

Population of 8000, I have 10 Gbit/s and could have up to 25 Gbit if I wanted (didn't see a reason to go any faster than 10 tho).

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u/ATMisboss PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

40k people, and $80 for 50/10mbps is still a thing...

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u/MOVES_HYPHENS Aug 20 '26

Meanwhile I pay Comcast (my only non-starlink option) $140/mo for 1.2Gbs (the highest tier in my location) and only actually receive a max of 250Mbs, often much lower. And upload is about 1/10 of download

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u/anubis_xxv Aug 20 '26

I live in a rural town in Ireland <4k and we have a choice of 4 providers and up to 5Gb/s with some. We are a crossroads and a bridge with a few various shops between them.

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u/reignshadow Aug 20 '26

In Southern California I have 10gbps

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u/camposf Aug 20 '26

I live in a town of less than 500 people and I get 1gb

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u/ma1iced Aug 20 '26

I live in a town with 1300 people, we get 7, up and down from frontier. We have a dollar general and a gas station.

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u/FreeToasterBaths Aug 20 '26

Number scare most Americans and 10 is a big old double digit number.

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u/DrShocker Specs/Imgur Here Aug 20 '26

Isn't that just 1 higher than 1?

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u/CounterThrowCyborg Aug 20 '26

Fucking stupid or binary, call it

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u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD Aug 20 '26

How much banana is it

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u/S-r-ex 9800X3D | 32GB | Sapphire 9070XT Pure Aug 20 '26

More than 20 baby elephants.

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u/GovernorMarley1 Aug 20 '26

No, it's 0 higher than 1. 1 and 10 are the same.

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u/DrShocker Specs/Imgur Here Aug 20 '26

Wait, I think you're onto something here.

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u/HelpMeOverHere Aug 20 '26

You laugh but Americans think that 1/4 is more than 1/3 :(

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u/chief_running_joke_ i9 12900k | 48 GB | 7900XT Aug 20 '26

Found the bot

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u/DrShocker Specs/Imgur Here Aug 20 '26

beep boop, please provide me your mother's maiden name.

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u/CubesTheGamer Aug 20 '26

That’s 100% more numbers! Double!

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u/mrspaznout Aug 20 '26

Iteration inconsistency detected.

Run diagnostic and continue iteration.

Inconsistency noted in "Fail Protocol" cache.

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u/ArgyllAtheist Aug 20 '26

10? sounds kinda metric... maybe americans would react better to their internet speeds if they were a multiple of 12 or sixteen.... :D

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u/PSGAnarchy Aug 20 '26

Nah you need a system where every different unit for the same measurement uses a different base. KB in base 12. MB in base 15 and then gb in base 10000, just for funsies

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u/Nojopar Aug 20 '26

What kinda commie pinko weirdo bastard is pushing '10'? That some sort of fruity European metric takeover??? Not on our watch buddy! Better dead than giga-red!

/s

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u/accid80 Aug 20 '26

what's that in football fields?

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u/punktualPorcupine Aug 20 '26

Numbers with a G after them are the devils werk! It’ll give you the mind virus and activate the nano bots in the vaccineeees!!

Get your cranial tinfoil protectors and horse paste NOW at http:shadySams/buymore/horsepaste/tottalyA.scam

/s because people are dum(b).

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u/Oni_K Aug 20 '26

Base 10 is metric, and therefore woke. US internet speeds to be measured in Bibles per Fortnight.

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u/JMccovery Ryzen 5900XT | 64GB DDR4-3200 | XFX 9070 OC Aug 20 '26

That being said, what is the average amount of Bibles per fortnight?

Also, are we talking KJV or NIV?

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u/berniestness Aug 20 '26

10 is entirely to many kinds of things… please make it stop.. make tha bad man stop.

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u/trollsmurf 14700KF | 32G | 5070 Ti | 2T | U27G4XM + 2x U2412M | Z906 Aug 20 '26

Consider then that it's 10,000,000,000 bits/second. That's a lot of zeros.

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u/nvidiastock Aug 20 '26

I'm in Eastern Europe in a deeply corrupt and backwards country and yet they're installing 10 gb internet in my area. I've had 1Gbs internet for about 15 years at $10 a month. 

I'm sad to see the US evolve backwards. 

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u/Trumpmon Aug 20 '26

Romenian common experience?

Here on Brazil i was getting 1Gbs for around 22 usd, but due the gangs rising they cut all the cables and no one wants to install here... That on a city over 2 million people.

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u/lavapig_love Aug 20 '26

The gangs cut, or the companies cut?

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u/Trumpmon Aug 20 '26

The gangs.

It's a recurrent problem on Brazil that the international media is hiding due it accelerating in Lula's government, i lost my internet in May, my father who lives close, but more inside of the favela in September last year. That was a problem mostly located on Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, but since 2024 it spread like wildfire towards north of Brazil.

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u/ArgyllAtheist Aug 20 '26

and by sad, you mean absolutley hi-larious. freedum!

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u/FireDragon21976 Aug 21 '26

In most places, the US is about as corrupt and backward, honestly.

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u/To-To_Man Aug 20 '26

Ten dollars a month?? Your joking!

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u/nvidiastock Aug 20 '26

It's 8 euros a month exactly, so a bit less than ten dollars actually. 

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u/To-To_Man Aug 20 '26

My ass is forced to pay 60$ a month for 100 MEGABITS. Your gonna make me cry.

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u/nvidiastock Aug 20 '26

Try to check if Google Fiber is available in your area. Other than that it gets very wish washy like calling your representatives. 

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u/To-To_Man Aug 20 '26

They actually uninstalled their shit over here.

And it doesn't matter, I'm in an apartment complex and they only allow anyone other than spectrum, which only allows broadband internet in the units.

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u/LosGritchos Aug 20 '26

But (ignoring the unit) your bandwitdh is a hundred times his!

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u/Vulpix0r https://pcpartpicker.com/b/sCNPxr Aug 20 '26

How did the country that invented the internet end up like this, it's so sad...

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u/All_Thread 9800X3D | 5080 | X870E-E | 48GB DDR5 Aug 20 '26

We allowed Comcast and other companies to take over the network and all the lines.

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u/decmcc Aug 20 '26

Ajit Pai was a Verizon lawyer, then the head of the FCC.

Regulatory capture has eroded this country from within

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u/All_Thread 9800X3D | 5080 | X870E-E | 48GB DDR5 Aug 20 '26

I live in a PUD area so I get 70 dollar fiber. It could be like that if we had PUD across the country.

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u/decmcc Aug 20 '26

lol, when I lived in Ireland I paid €27/month for 400mb down and 100mb up, that was 15 years ago.

while some areas will have a decent roll out (maybe someone on your local gov was a former network engineer and saw opportunity), others will be underserved so 5G or satellite can compete.

You would never even consider starlink if you had $30 fiber (even shared fiber), but when the choice is between no Internet or starlink, the price seems a lot better.

then in 5 years when most people stop laying fiber the price goes up. You remember when Uber and grubhub were affordable? that's where starlink is now.

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u/All_Thread 9800X3D | 5080 | X870E-E | 48GB DDR5 Aug 20 '26

I mean half the PUDs in my state are building a fiber network. Over 9k miles built. It's just reinvestvedting back what we put in.

lol

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u/Bigd1979666 PC Master Race Aug 23 '26

That's not bad. Think we pay 50 here in France for 2gbps up and down , tv, and land line with no data caps. I'd never pay more than that and is why I won't move back to the USA. 

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u/SmokePenisEveryday Aug 20 '26

My mother just yesterday was lamenting how she's always having to deal with Comcast despite having lived in 3 different states over the last 20+ years.

Had to explain to her that it was no coincidence and that every place we lived they were the only option. (Outside of Satellite anyways)

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u/Ekgladiator Steambox beta tester Aug 20 '26

Propaganda, piss poor education, greed....

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u/Bigd1979666 PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

 Internet is a decentralized network of computer. As opposite to classical network there is no central nodes, and if one router is down, the information will pass by another route. This is an American invention from the 60's or 70's which was thought as a way to keep the IT infrastructure running in case of nuclear war.

In the late70's France developed a centralized data-network using terminal, and provided these terminal to many citizen, it's the minitel which was basically used a a digital-version of the phone-book, to buy train tickets online or to see pixelated ladies[1]. However, it was a centralized network and not connected to other network which isn't internet at all, but may-be the first consumer-grade data network

In the Early 90's a british CERN engineer , developed a prototype system to exchange easily information over the internet by using hypertext links. Despite his boss saying it's vague but interesting he kept going and created the world-wide-web. The WWW that most of us browse when using internet (Even though internet also support tons of protocols like ftp or usenet) it's the invention that would made internet usable by the general public ...

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u/queen-adreena Linux Aug 20 '26

England’s doing fine thanks.

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u/YourAverageNutcase NixOS, RX 7900 XT, R5 7600X, 32GB DDR5, Lian Li A3 Aug 20 '26

England has a big Reform-shaped problem right now, if not quite as bad as America's GOP

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u/Goonalips Aug 20 '26

Well the Tories and Labour better do something to bring those Reform voters back, or they're going to regret it. The UK is sick of the immigration, and it's the biggest carrot reform has.

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 5090 Astral|270K+|48GB-8200MTs|Z890 Apex|60TB|HYTE Y70|S90F OLED Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

Tbh France and even Norway did more. Leave it to a Brit to take all of the credit for Europe’s success. Most of the r&d is US based.

Also, England is on the same path as the US. The only time Brits won’t admit that is when they’re being compared to the US. But the rot is the same. Second, you need to brush up on your history. Sorry the US makes your little island feel insignificant. I know you long for the days Britain owned half the world but those days are long gone

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u/Cagnazzo82 Aug 20 '26

England did not invent the internet.

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u/WealthyMarmot 7800x3D | RTX 4090 | ASRock B650e Taichi Lite Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Go look up where TCP/IP was invented (i.e. the literal Internet Protocol). Spoiler: it wasn’t in England

edit: whoops responded to the wrong comment

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u/Cagnazzo82 Aug 20 '26

Yes, part of the point I was making.

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u/WealthyMarmot 7800x3D | RTX 4090 | ASRock B650e Taichi Lite Aug 20 '26

Yep meant to respond to the commenter above

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u/queen-adreena Linux Aug 20 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

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u/WealthyMarmot 7800x3D | RTX 4090 | ASRock B650e Taichi Lite Aug 20 '26

The World Wide Web is not the Internet. It’s a technology stack on top of the Internet.

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u/jelly-sandwich Aug 20 '26

You do realize that the world wide web is not the internet, right?

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u/Ninlilizi_ (She/Her) 5950X, 128GB, RTX4080. | Engine / Graphics dev. Aug 20 '26

I'm stuck on 4G just outside London because I waited a year for OpenReach to install fibre and then when the latest of a dozen missed install dates rolled around they went 'cannot do it'.

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u/Bigd1979666 PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

Don't lots of ISPs enforce bandwidth caps there too? 

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u/esc8pe8rtist Aug 20 '26

If by “fine” you mean arresting people for facebooks posts, sure - totally fine

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u/Stagism Intel 10700k | EVGA 3090 FTW3 | 32GB DDR4 3600 RAM Aug 21 '26

Just straight up corruption

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u/PunishedDemiurge Aug 20 '26

Republicans. This is a purely partisan issue. Republicans on nearly every issue govern as if they are an enemy of the American people. It's not just this, they're also the pro-pollution party, pro-unnecessary war party, anti-worker, anti-infrastructure, anti-journalism, etc.

Every American and every foreigner should hate and actively work to destroy the entirety of the Republican party and its power structure. If you're just a random British bloke, their tariffs are hurting your ability to reach American customers or go on a tourist trip. If you're Ukrainian or an Iranian school girl, you might end up dead due to Republicans.

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u/esc8pe8rtist Aug 20 '26

Stupidity

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u/AstraBed Aug 20 '26

1Gbps?

10 Gbps?

Whats the G? Can the number have two figures?

Here in Italy the best I can get is 4MB/s

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u/PeaceLoveMicroPenis Aug 20 '26

That's terrible! Where in america is Italy?

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u/barriedalenick Aug 20 '26

I live in a remotish place in Portugal, in a tiny hamlet, and my speed averages at just under 1gb which is pretty standard now but I could upgrade to 10gb if I felt I needed it (which I don't) - I can't believe the lack of ambition in the US

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u/fried_green_baloney Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

I can't believe the lack of ambition in the USA U

You said it very well.

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u/berniestness Aug 20 '26

So there’s literally a guy walking around your neighborhood with a skull?

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u/CumAssault 7900X | 7900XTX Aug 20 '26

It’s not lack of ambition, it’s because the US is huge and running fiber over every square mile is a daunting task. No idea how people on this thread can’t comprehend it. For rural areas in the US Starlink is your best bet

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u/Crafty-Corvid 9800X3D | RTX 5090 | 64GB DDR5 6000 | NCASE M2 Mini-ITX Aug 20 '26

It’s not just a rural problem, even major American cities lack universal access to gigabit.

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u/CumAssault 7900X | 7900XTX Aug 20 '26

I have never heard of anyone in even any decent sized town not having access to gigabit. The federal government wasted a ton of money during the Biden administration (hundreds of millions) to run fiber across the country just for ISPs to not even pick them up due to such few customers being on those lines.

It’s why I don’t blame the FCC on this one, can’t rely entirely on fiber

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u/razorbacks3129 4070 Ti Super | 7800X3D | 32GB Aug 21 '26

Says who? I’m in a tiny town with a 5GBps for $90 through my ISP

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u/LittlestWarrior 5090 | 9950X3D | 64gb 6000mHz Aug 20 '26

I'm rural. About 5 years ago I upgraded from 12down/2up DSL to 1000down/40up cable. I feel like I'm living in the future compared to what I had. It's kind of sad for me to consider what bigger cities have, but I am happy.

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u/CumAssault 7900X | 7900XTX Aug 20 '26

Yeah if you can get 1gig it’s great. But for a lot of us rural folks going from shit satellite to Starlink was a huge jump. Where I am its either Starlink or Hughes net. The government paid to run fiber, no ISPs ever picked it up. We wasted so much money on it

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u/LittlestWarrior 5090 | 9950X3D | 64gb 6000mHz Aug 20 '26

Wow. We had to just about beg our ISP to run lines on our road. No clue why they finally did, seeing how expensive that undertaking was. Surely me and my neighbors aren't giving them enough profit to recuperate from that any time soon.

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u/To-To_Man Aug 20 '26

We did it with USPS, which the government also wants to get rid of. If they have electricity or water, they can have internet. Rather than government built redundancy that ensures greater connectivity and autonomy for those most remote and underserved, you rather have the people sell out for a company who may change their terms of service or pricing at any moment?

Anyway take a guess who might have a vested interest in making rural America's Internet speed slower. Here's a hint: you already mentioned them.

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u/usual_suspect82 5800X3D-4080S-32GB DDR4 3600 C16 Aug 20 '26

What most in this thread don’t seem to understand is just that, land mass and concentration of population.

The US is 3.53 million square miles, that’s bigger than France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Finland, Poland, Italy, and the UK combined. The sheer cost of deploying fiber across that amount of landmass is massive, not only that, the time it would take, maintenance costs, and being able to recoup those costs. Every European country is smaller, with a smaller and more concentrated population per square mile so it’s easier to supply faster internet across the board.

Another thing to consider is needs and usage since not everyone needs gigabit internet. I have a 2Gbps connection myself, I game on both my PC and Switch 2, while the rest of my family streams and use their phones. While 2Gbps is nice, it isn’t necessary. On my S2 I’m limited by Nintendo’s download servers, on my PC I’m limited by any number of download servers, so often times I can’t even flex out the full capabilities of 2Gbps, and even then it’s not impressive enough to warrant needing more. I’m not in that huge of a rush where I need top of the line break neck speeds, especially when the benefit to me is just saving a couple of minutes

While I’m all for 1Gbps connection speeds across the board, I also understand that the costs of having such a standard in the US, considering its size, is always going to be passed onto the consumer whether it be in the form of higher taxes or higher internet bills.

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u/atatassault47 7800X3D | 3090 Ti | 32GB | 32:9 1440p Aug 20 '26

Something like 85, 90 percent of United Staters live in towns and cities.

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u/WulfTheSaxon Aug 20 '26

And almost all of them have access to gig speeds. This is about the rest. (Also, that definition includes pretty sparse suburbs and tiny towns as “urban” because it has no concept of something in between urban and rural.)

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u/Kweby_ Aug 20 '26

First time I’ve seen Americans be called United Staters. It’s better than United Statesian I suppose lol

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u/atatassault47 7800X3D | 3090 Ti | 32GB | 32:9 1440p Aug 20 '26

One country doesnt deserve the exclusive name of two continents

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u/WulfTheSaxon Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

But ambiguously referring to either the United States of America or the United States of Mexico is fine?

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u/0nlyCrashes CachyOS | 9070 XT | R7 7800X3D Aug 20 '26

This is so wild to me, lol. I live in a pretty rural area in the USA. The local ISP only offers fiber 1Gbs up/down as the base then goes up to 8Gbps. I assumed all the cities were rocking 5Gbs at this point? I only pay 55 a month too.

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u/Olli399 1 Computer Ah Ah Ah! 2 Computers Ah Ah Ah! 3 Computers Ah! Ah! Aug 20 '26

When I was walking around Liechtenstein they were advertising 10GBPs for like 50 francs or something silly. Admittedly much easier logisical challenge rolling that out nationwide there.

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u/Property_6810 Aug 20 '26

I think the problem is requiring it in places where you're running lines 10 miles between people. Having variable requirements depending on population density makes sense. We do it with roads too.

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u/Mr_ToDo Aug 20 '26

It does seem like there aren't many people here from rural areas

The primary tech for those places is point to multi point wireless, and satellite(with the sad option of cellar too, if you can even get reception)

Having it something like location or density dependant I think would be a good starting point

And it's not like they're entirely eliminating the minimum speed requirements for what constitutes "good enough" 100/20 isn't great, but it's a hell of a lot better then the 10/1 DSL that a lot of people still use

Course. That said, we actually have shockingly good rural fibre coverage. It's mainly X distance from their trunk runs, but it covers a pretty wide swath. The real shame is that the "small" wireless ISP option we had(with the best customer service I've seen from an ISP) sold to the worst ISP a person can find around here(Fucking xplore. Bought them up, shut down all the towers, and told people to switch to satellite or cellular, neither of which they do well)

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u/09044595134151602468 Aug 20 '26

I live in the USA and get 8gbps symmetrical.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Aug 20 '26

Location (and price) matters.

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u/09044595134151602468 Aug 20 '26

$80 per month inc all taxes and fees. Lifetime price.

Big city in USA.

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u/CoconutMochi Meshlicious | R7 5800x3D | RTX 4080 Aug 20 '26

Sonic's been running around my county offering 10 gbps symmetrical for $50/month

Frontier does 5 and spectrum does 1

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u/Waffleskater8 Aug 20 '26

All I can think of is ziply fiber in the northwest who offers a residential plan of 50gbps .

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u/DankeBrutus R5 3600 | RX6600 | 32GB | Fedora Aug 20 '26

In Canada I've been told by Rogers salespeople, not once but twice, that my 1Gbit speed was "too fast" and I "don't need internet that fast." They've even told me that 500Mb is too fast.

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u/Impressive_Head1238 Aug 20 '26

Gotta love those starlink checks...

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u/Beneficial-Act7603 Aug 20 '26

One guy even said in this thread "Yeah it's rough in the countryside, just use Starlink"

Bro...

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u/doneandtired2014 Ryzen 9 5900x, Crosshair VIII hero, RTX 3080, 32 GB DDR4 3600 Aug 20 '26

I'm sorry for you USA.

You shouldn't be, 77+ million people voted for this shit show and almost as many people shoulder shrugged. Feel bad for those with enough folds in their frontal lobes and enough synapses firing across them to have been screaming the entire time how bad a Trump 2.0 admin would be.

This also isn't the first time Carr's put his thumb on the scale to help Elmo out and it won't be the last. The P2025 cumsock is also the same one leading the charge to kill the multi-billion dollar grants that were meant to build out fiber and such to rural communities (the same ones that evidently care far more if a trans person pisses in a bathroom than if they have a hospital within 45 miles or how to feed themselves/kids if they lose their food stamps).

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u/Talithea 5700X | 32 GB | B550PRO | RX580 Aug 20 '26

Romania has commercial offers for 2.5 Gbps. Like I can go to a shop, pay $30 dollars first month and then $18 in local currency after to have fiber and router installed by them.

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u/Arniepepper Aug 20 '26

Europea. Living in Cambodia. I concur.

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u/welestgw Aug 20 '26

Light speed too slow? Then we need to go to ludicrous speed!

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u/Faunstein Aug 20 '26

Meanwhile, in Australia...

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u/F0X0 Specs/Imgur Here Aug 20 '26

Trump's America. All is as predicted.

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u/CorporateCuster Aug 20 '26

Capitalism. Worse than communism apparently

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u/Zaconil Aug 20 '26

If you feel sorry for the US don't look at Australia. They're in a really rough spot for ISPs.

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u/Icedman81 Ryzen 7 7800X3D|7900XTX|Gentoo|KDE|OpenRC Aug 20 '26

Or Finland, that has some availability with 40 Gig.

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u/arroyobass PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

I have 10GB/s fiber at my house for about $130/month in the US. I can't tell you how lucky I feel!

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u/Beneficial-Act7603 Aug 20 '26

At 130$/month? Really?

Guess you don't have much choice but it's no wonder most people don't use anything past 1Gb/s

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u/NotTheAvg Aug 20 '26

I'm chilling in Korea where we had 10 gigabit internet for at least a decade or so now.

Edit: but to be fair, 100Mbps is still common here since it's stupid cheap and is pretty much useful for all situations. Few use cases for gigabit and even rarer cases for 10 gigabit.

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u/Jarppi1893 Aug 20 '26

I'm too European for this, and I've been living in the US since 2009. This country is behind in almost everything, and it's mildly concerning

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u/Hyper_Mazino 5090 SUPRIM SOC | 9800X3D Aug 20 '26

Here in Germany 1Gbs sound like a fairy tale.

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u/Beneficial-Act7603 Aug 20 '26

Really? I thought you guys were at least at 5Gb/s pretty much everywhere...

Is it a cost thing or because of poor infrastructure?

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u/Csquared6 Aug 20 '26

It's ok. In about 6 months the government will start bringing back horses because cars are too fast. Who knows what people will want in the future?

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u/wolphak Aug 20 '26

Most of the country is already past gigabit it's not that huge of an issue. 

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u/razorbacks3129 4070 Ti Super | 7800X3D | 32GB Aug 21 '26

Why? I’m in US getting 5GBps for $90 a month and it’s paid for by my employer

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u/XxDrummerChrisX Aug 20 '26

Excuse me? As an uncultured American please don’t tell me 10gb is a normal household internet speed in some places. Youd be paying hundreds a month here.

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u/wytewydow Aug 20 '26

Do you have any idea how hard it is to reach those speeds when every spare inch of silicon is going into data centers?

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u/Aleksandrovitch Aug 20 '26

S’okay. We’re also told guns and coal are healthy, while paying 2k a month on health insurance.

It’s going to take a meteor strike to crack down through the bullshit we’ve buried ourselves in over here.

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u/Anonymous_Jr i5 | GTX 760 | 16GB DDR3 | 1TB HDD | Steam ID: Trazel Apeally Aug 20 '26

10 Billion is to 1 billion as 100 million is to 1 Million is to 1,000.



Eat the Rich.