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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

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[–] TheRealKuni 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my friend lives 30m from a multi-million population city

It took me a beat to realize this was 30 miles or 30 minutes and not 30 meters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah that’s my bad, should’ve used metric. I meant minutes, but in context it doesn’t really portray that.

[–] TheRealKuni 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, metric isn’t a requirement (although I myself am striving to use it when I remember), just that “m” alone is ambiguous. And in my daily work, a number followed by a single m is meters.