Reply to post: Re: Seems they've forgotten what "broadband" actually means

FCC will vote to cut off 41 million broadband users this Thursday*

RAMChYLD

Re: Seems they've forgotten what "broadband" actually means

But doesn't fiber has lower latency than copper? I've seen a large difference in Team Fortress 2 (hundreds of ms with 1Mbps DSL vs 7ms with 20Mbps fiber, to a server in the same country). Unless the latency delay was introduced on purpose by the DSL provider with the purpose of screwing the game up and slowing down the connection...

And as any gamer can tell you, in first-person and RTS gaming, speed is second to latency.

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