SMITHFIELD — To meet the federal government’s minimum standard for high-speed internet, a broadband provider must offer download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second.
And that’s not slow. With that speed, dad can surf the internet and mom can work remotely while their kid streams Disney+ in HD.
But Brightspeed is bringing 10 times that speed, or 1 gigabit per second, to thousands of homes and businesses in Johnston County. And at 1 Gbps, a family can stream multiple 4K videos simultaneously while also gaming and uploading files to the cloud…