Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-29 Thread Jared Mauch
Sadly thus us repeating the same problematic data based on average usage by older Americans vs usage by younger people or those of us with several children. I agree with the average utilization but when it comes to those peaks my customers can finish their uploads or restores quickly when

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
This is going to be very painful and difficult for a number of DOCSIS3 operators, including some of the largest ISPs in the USA with multi-millions of subscribers with tons of legacy coax plant that have no intention of ever changing the RF channel setup and downstream/upstream asymmetric

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-29 Thread Jared Mauch
> On May 26, 2022, at 9:31 AM, Livingood, Jason via NANOG > wrote: > >> Latency is a limitation for things that are generally relatively low >> bandwidth (interactive audio, zoom, etc.). >> Higher bandwidth won’t solve the latency problem > > +1 > IMO as we enter the 'post-gigabit era', an

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-29 Thread Richard Irving
I will out an old member of list, not myself, he still runs Old Cisco (ASA managed, “fully”, might be debatable) firewall, capable of full duplex 100 Mbs, on -both- sides.  (WHOA) His optic provider gave him a converter between the full optic GigE run into his house, and the 100 FD at the