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Comments on news posted 2007-06-07 12:25:47: Last year PC Magazine developed their own speed testing application dubbed "Surfspeed. ..

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MichaelH

@gcpud.org

Fios is not everything its made out to be

Fios is not everything its made out to be.I live in Eastern Washington in a town less than 20 blocks long by 6 blocks wide. We have the lowest electric prices in the country (1.85 cents per kilowatt) and 25 plus years ago give or take the county installed fiber optic.

There are 6 companies that basically you can choose from but they all really suck. My cable modem gets faster connetion than fios through Homenetnw.net (former Vib.tv).

This is a speed test result directly to the counties server,
Checking for Middleboxes . Done
running 10s outbound test (client to server) 54.28Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) 94.77Mb/s
Server unable to determine bottleneck link type.

These results from »speeder.whidbey.net/

Http connection opened in 0 milliseconds
Test performed in 68219 milliseconds
Total bytes downloaded: 5242880 bytes
Throughput: 0.5863469 Mbps

Your line speed is estimated to be 717 Kb/s

(based on an average TCP overhead of 15%)

I pay $44 a month for fios and $30 a month for cable

It is the companies that screw up connecting users to the pipeline of the internet. So shop around and forget contracts, talk to neighbors and see who is using what and why.

Peace

Michael

batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ

Re: Fios is not everything its made out to be

said by MichaelH :

Fios is not everything its made out to be.
Did CLEC leech die.

JamesPC

join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA

Cali Bud

Go California!
gouber
Premium
join:2002-05-11
Centerville, MA

massachusetts

And they even mention my locale of Cape Cod. Gotta love the 6.0mpbs on cape cod from comcast.
IPV5

join:2005-08-19
Bryn Mawr, PA

Test and Advertising

Would this test count as a "hit" for advertising banners?

batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ

Four of the five fastest states are all in the Northeast

It is time to build a wall on the southern boarder. That would be the Maison/Dixon line. You people are ignorant and unwashed and are keeping us from our destiny.
Nick125

join:2004-03-08
Albuquerque, NM

I think this is inaccurate..

Anyone here notice that Qwest is the second fastest DSL ISP in California? See anything wrong with that?

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