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In context: For years, high speed internet has been defined as a minimum download speed of 25Mbps and upload of 3Mbps, according to the FCC. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) instead defines “high speed” as just 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Now, a bipartisan group of senators is calling on the FCC to update its definition of high-speed broadband, and argues for a base of 100Mbps up and down – figures which the group claims reflect the needs of modern Internet users. Without a doubt, 2020 was the year when our home broadband was put to the test, and it’s likely that many of us realized our “high speed” connection wasn’t all that. Base speeds of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up as defined by the FCC are barely enough to maintain one Zoom call – let alone multiple ones – which is why a bipartisan group of senators is calling for an updated definition. Updating the definition would mean the FCC would be unable to identify an area as being served by high speed access unless the new … [Read more...] about Call on FCC to update definition of “high speed” Internet, from 25/3 Mbps to at least 100/100 Mbps

T-Mobile announced some new services for enterprise customers today, including wireless Home Office Internet. Part of a trio of services T-Mobile is calling WFX, Home Office Internet is designed to complement customers’ standard home internet with a separate cellular-based Wi-Fi network. The goal is to provide a reliable, secure connection for business customers without having to worry about sharing bandwidth with the rest of the household. Home Office Internet is an extension of the LTE-based wireless home broadband consumer service that’s being piloted now, and it works in basically the same way. Users receive a router and can self-install the network. It uses 4G and 5G signals and, like the consumer service, includes a potentially important caveat: customers are subject to deprioritization slowdowns at times when the network is busy. That’s an annoyance for anyone but would be particularly bad for customers trying to conduct business on the network. Home Office Internet will … [Read more...] about T-Mobile’s home office internet is a separate cellular-based Wi-Fi network for enterprise customers

Let's talk about that line of dialogue in WandaVision . You know the one I'm talking about. "What is grief, if not love persevering?" This one: Man, where to even start? Now that WandaVision is starting to unfurl its wings -- as an allegory on trauma, or the stages of grief -- the line has come to exist as a perfect snapshot of the show as an idea, a concept, conceit, or whatever. You could imagine this line on a poster. On a mug. A T-shirt. A sympathy card, an Instagram post. It's a line that fits perfectly into the constraints of a tweet. It's a line powerful enough to send the entire internet into a spiral. It took roughly two hours for this moment to run the Galaxy Brain gamut. First it was just a nice line of dialogue. Then it was the greatest line of dialogue ever written by human hands -- powerful enough to have "every screenwriter whispering a reverent 'FUCK' under their breath." Then there was the inevitable backlash, which in and of itself became a meme … [Read more...] about WandaVision’s line about ‘grief’ sent the internet into a spiral

Nearly 19 years ago, I said "I love you" to a girl, face-to-face, for the first time. It's a moment I remember clearly: Flowers. A ring. An awkward kiss. Both of our moms hovering around since each had driven us three hours to a halfway point. It was weird like any early teenage romance, but this particular iteration of adolescent awkwardness remains unique even in retrospect. My "I love you moment"—like any sense memories from my teenage years of 1996-98—mostly revolves around my bedroom. Here I hid from the feeling that I didn’t fit in at my high school, from feeling inferior to my siblings, from my parents’ dissolving marriage. And luckily I had quite the hiding place: a nook on the room’s far wall, sectioned off in such a way that the light from a single window, the sound from a nearby stereo, and the glow from an overweight CRT monitor filled the whole space. The nook had a built-in desk that was perfect for the Pentium 166 computer our father had bought for the family … [Read more...] about I met my first girlfriend through Windows 95: An Internet love story

Android & Chill Google is simply doing what it does best — keeping its extras to itself. Jerry Hildenbrand 6 Mar 2021 1 Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central I've seen something being shared around that looks like terrible news for anyone who loves the way Chrome can render a web page but hates the extra bloat that's baked into Google's browser. According to It's FOSS — a web site dedicated to all things open-source and a site I read regularly — third-party browsers that use Chromium are being locked out of certain features because Google is worried about market share. That would be a devastating loss to you, me, and the internet as a whole if it were the case, but I don't think it has anything to do with the market share of Chrome or that Google really cares about the particular features in play here. It's just Google making sure that only you and it have access to sensitive information stored in your Google account. VPN Deals: … [Read more...] about No, Chromium browsers aren’t going anywhere any time soon