Are you serious about everyone getting their advertised speeds? I am in the mix of this with hundreds of customers a day, and I find that not to be true at all.
Start with the basics of the cable system construct and the speeds you receive vary by time of day and day of week. Some can be very consistent, for a while, until they add multiple other customers on the pooled connections. DSL can have ample issues regarding distance from the CO, condition of copper lines and grade of modem. FIOS would be simply the most consistent, it is a great service, but limited in availability. The majority of customers can select between Cable and DSL or wireless, which is widely inconsistent. You make a very blanket statement that seems in the defense of large bandwidth providers. I have nothing against them (other then their infuriating customer service), but from a practical perspective, consistency would not be an adjective that could be used in the same sentence. Thank you, Greg Tennant Luminosity Communications, Inc. 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If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error and then delete it. ---------- Original Message ---------- FROM: "George Ou" <[email protected]> TO: "'Lauren Weinstein'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> DATE: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:32:34 -0700 SUBJECT: [ NNSquad ] Re: Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan I would really challenge you to produce some speedtest.net results that show you getting half your advertised speeds in any of the major US ISPs. Every person I've ever known in the US that's ever tested consistently gets close to their advertised speeds provided they haven't contaminated their results by simultaneously downloading other stuff on their broadband connection while testing. My experience is very consistent with Ofcom data: http://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/files/wallsten_international_broadband_co mparisons.pdf (Figure 10 page 27). George Ou [ George, with considerable self-restraint, I'll put this as politely as possible. Comments like the one you make above implicitly assume that anyone (with data that doesn't match your own, or who disagrees with your associated world view, or who in your "humble" opinion naturally can't compare to your utterly *vast* and *enormous* technical competency) -- must be either an incompetent fool or a scheming liar. It's that sort of attitude that causes so many consumers and non-ISP-affiliated observers to so deeply doubt the veracity of various data and protestations of the large, dominant ISPs and their sundry minions. -- Lauren Weinstein NNSquad Moderator ] - - - -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Ou Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:45 PM To: 'Lauren Weinstein'; [email protected] Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan All depends on how you define "adequate". Do you set it at 100 Mbps minimum? Is that advertised speeds like in Japan where they typically promise 100 but deliver close to half, or is it more the other end of the spectrum in the US where they advertise 50 and actually deliver close to 50? You can define adequate such that we might only have 5% compliance. On the other hand if we define adequate as being able to use nearly 100% of the applications on the Internet with reasonable results, then I would suspect that the 95% statistic is fairly accurate. George [ As long as we're exploring the meaning of "adequate" -- let's also ponder what the word "reasonable" means. I have a cable circuit here that generally runs at well less than 50% of the "up to" speed that is constantly being advertised. Does that qualify as "reasonable results"? -- Lauren Weinstein NNSquad Moderator ] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ NNSquad ] Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan ----- Forwarded message from David Farber <[email protected]> ----- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:15:30 -0400 From: David Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan Reply-To: [email protected] To: ip <[email protected]> Begin forwarded message: From: [email protected] (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: April 21, 2010 4:15:53 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[email protected]> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan Free Press: FCC used 'flawed data' in broadband plan The Hill By Kim Hart Despite years of Congressional pleas for better broadband data, the FCC's National Broadband Plan is based on flawed information and incorrect assumptions, public interest group Free Press told lawmakers Wednesday. Derek Turner, research director for Free Press, said the FCC has overstated the availability of broadband availability around the country, using figures that are not sufficient for long-term policymaking. In his testimony before the House technology subcommittee, Turner said he doubts the FCC's claim that 95 percent of U.S. households have access to broadband facilities capable of delivering adequate speeds. <http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/93529-free-press-fcc-us ed-flawed-data-in-broadband-plan>RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----
