# TIL: Broadband definition per FCC is 100/20 Mbps (2024-03-15)

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**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-broadband-definition-per-fcc-is-100-20-mbps-2024-03-15/109 "2024-03-15T07:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-broadband-definition-per-fcc-is-100-20-mbps-2024-03-15/109/1 "2024-03-15T07:00:00Z")

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As it turns out - FCC increased the bar for the definition of “broadband Internet”

> Today, the FCC has changed its definition of “broadband” to mean **download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second**.

- [The FCC has finally decreed that 25Mbps and 3Mbps are not ‘broadband’ speed | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/14/24101313/fcc-new-broadband-definition-100mbps-20mbps)

And then here’s the internet we have around here:

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/8182fd9b9128ce68ec468a58aa0524bb9923b41e.png)

- latency is what we truly care about, and 7ms is satisfactory