[GRLUG] Community based internet

[Bob Kline]

Nice to see it all spelled out. I wonder
to what extent this means that providers
will have to adapt their terminology.

    -- Bob


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:

>  On 3/24/2011 12:50 PM, Dagny Scott wrote:
>
>
>> Below a manhole in the item you sent
>> it mentions that 133 cities and town have
>> there own broadband systems.  That
>> could mean almost anything, since
>> broadband apparently means 200Kbps
>> and above to many people.
>>
>>
>>
> The FCC defines broadband has having at least 4mbps down.
>
> Dagny
>
>  *I don't have broadband anymore!!!  *I don't have a full 1Mbps up LOL
>
> Federal Communications Commission<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission>(FCC) as of 2010, defines "Basic Broadband" as data transmission speeds of
> at least 4 megabits per second (Mbps), or 4,000,000 bits per second,
> downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer>)
> and 1 Mbit/s upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access#cite_note-2>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access
>
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