[isostatic]

What latency? 100ms is fine for pretty much every internet use there is.

[lotsofpulp]

Using the internet with connections that have 5ms latency is a far better experience than 100ms, especially with real time communications. Also, everyone should have symmetric connections, none of this 250mbps down and 3mbps up BS.

[EpicEng]

Sure, and living in a mansion is a far better experience than living in public housing. We're talking about service as a "right", right?

[freedomben]

I wonder what the cost would be to run low latency fiber to every single home in the entire country, regardless of geographic remoteness (it is a human right after all, per Bernie).

[cortesoft]

Latency to where? Latency is not a metric that applies to a single connection, it can only be measure when you have two systems that communicate to each other. 5ms to your router doesn't matter if everything you are connecting to is 500ms away from that.

The best internet in the world, located in a major city, will have around 15ms latency to the closest datacenter. Wireless solutions can easily achieve that.

[NullPrefix]

VoIP on 100ms is not enjoyable.

[cortesoft]

So you can never talk to someone across the country? We are limited by the speed of light, you are never going to get sub 100ms latency across the globe.

[isostatic]

I talk transatlantic and further a lot on t'phone, no real issue