FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore
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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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well, if you have the money for it, you can get starlink, but its far from cheap. But since you are at cellular network, a 4G receiver with good placement can much improve on those speeds. I assume you are in some signal shadow, and swan never had too good coverage outside large cities... Maybe try some other operator ?

For 13EUR/month I sure could get faster speeds, but also fairly small data limits. Here I get 300GB/month.

Maybe the nearby cell towers are overloaded, I don't know. But at midnight it can go up to 45Mbps. The speed peaks around 2-3AM.
Also there's the free national roaming in Orange 2G/3G network. So if I really need faster internet speeds, I can use Orange 3G HSPA+ which is pretty reliable, although with 20GB/month cap.

Cellular is always overloaded in rural areas. Mobile ISPs always take on more customers than their infrastructure can handle.