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What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times? We should skip the bullshit and only sustained minimum speeds should be allowed to be advertised. It would at least give the ISP the incentive to invest more their infrastructure.

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Also what's the point when significant portions of the US have de facto regional broadband monopolies?

I mean clear labeling is always better than not, but if you have no actual options how much does it help?

Where I live my choice for actual wired broadband is: Spectrum. That's it. My only other viable Internet option is 25 mbps DSL from AT&T. So if I don't like the service from Spectrum: tough luck. If I'm looking at the label before ordering Spectrum and don't like what I see: tough luck.

And my situation isn't particularly rare.

A lot of consumers are going to have two options for the first time soon due to 5G rollouts from T-Mobile, Verizon, and others.

And maybe you can use that label to more easily convince your local politicians that they should be giving more companies access to the poles.

Are nutrition labels useful in food deserts?

Thank goodness there is a wide variety of choices in food desserts. But I have never seen a nutritional label at a donut shop.

Do you think less information is better than more information in this case?

In case you're not being facetious (hard to tell over the Internet and all), food deserts is a term referring to "an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food".

Additionally, the FDA now requires nutritional and allergen info to be provided for restaurants, though it is sufficient to make them available online.

Here's a direct link to the doughnut store Krispy Kreme's nutritional facts for their Original Glazed® doughnut.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/kkd-e1-images.kktestkitchen.com/eco...

Or Dunkin' Donut's nutritional facts:

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/nutrition.pd...

and allergen info:

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/allergy_ingr...

FDA's fact sheet about this:

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/fdas-implem...

to be clear, I didn't notice the missing s. feel free to downvote.

I can only get one brand of milk at my store. Is it important that I know whether it’s lactose-free?

Yup, welcome to my neighborhood in Austin. Literally two miles in any direction, and you've got at least three gigabit-class ISPs, but not here. Spectrum and AT&T DSL are it for "broadband" providers.

And I checked, and no T-Mobile and Verizon do not provide 5G fixed wireless service in this neighborhood. That was going to be my backup. AT&T LTE is available here, but it's no faster than DSL and during times of high load, it's much worse than DSL.

FML.

> What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times?

Maybe I'm missing something, but the labels use average speeds, not rated maximums.

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