Our recent poll asking,"What speed is considered high speed broadband?" was asked last week and it has shown that 50% of voters chose 10Mbps and 20Mbps; while 5Mbps had a 0% vote. Now the phrase 'high speed broadband' can serve to many different meanings when it comes to speed. There is never really a definite throughput of a connection that defines it as high speed broadband. But there is one for broadband, according to the FCC,
Broadband or high-speed Internet access allows users to access the Internet and Internet-related services at significantly higher speeds than those available through “dial-up” Internet access services. Broadband speeds vary significantly depending on the particular type and level of service ordered and may range from as low as 200 kilobits per second (kbps), or 200,000 bits per second, to six megabits per second (Mbps), or 6,000,000 bits per second. Some recent offerings even include 50 to 100 Mbps. Broadband services for residential consumers typically provide faster downstream speeds (from the Internet to your computer) than upstream speeds (from your computer to the Internet).
So therefore, the term High Speed Broadband can be defined differently depending on different ISP's or users. But in our opinion, any Internet connection speed faster than 10Mbps is considered because most ISP's in the world are providing fast broadband connection in the range of 10Mbps and higher.
References
Internet Reference
- Federal Communication Commission, Getting Broadband[Online], Retrieved 14th Ocotber, URL: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/highspeedinternet.html
