> On 14 Dec. 2016, at 21:46, Rana <ranaventu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I did see a report from someone boasting the large bandwidth via Pi at home - 
> but this seems to be an exception rather than a rule, and he was in Germany, 
> probably at a cozy digital distance from the local DirAuth :)

Since the consensus weight is the low-median of 5 measurements spread
around the US and Western Europe, being in Germany only gets you one
good measurement: you need 3 good measurements to get a high consensus
weight.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median :

> Because of this, the median is of central importance in robust statistics, as 
> it is the most resistant statistic, having a breakdown point of 50%: so long 
> as no more than half the data are contaminated, the median will not give an 
> arbitrarily large or small result.

T

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