| If you count that overhead you'll find the "missing" BW Speed test sites usually only take into account the 'cooked data'. The data thats been transmitted up/down the line without all the routing/destination/checksum/etc information.
It's like sending a letter to someone, you don't care about the envelope its being sent in, the receiver doesn't care about the envelope. (Raw Data)
It matters to the people that move the letter/data around and counts during the transfers to/from the speed test sites.
or should the speed test sites be held accountable for leaving the routing/destination/checksum/etc information out of the equation? |
| You guys can for get that you will never be guaranteed a exact speed for DSl .. limitation on the copper will limit it.. I know fro a fact you can provision a incremental speeds . I hear somuch speculatin on this site it amazing... now I agree the up chould not be sue like I it is , but i know in my company the garantedd is always like the following fst = 384k - 1.5m, 1.5-3.0M and 3.0 -6.0M...I am a DSL tech and whan I build a DSL circuit those are my options... if I try to build one with a range the line cannot handle the cust will have intermittent sync issues all day long period!!!. now Cable I have no clue on that I would say they maybe in more of a position to do guaranteed speed because distance is not usually a issue with cable especially if on a hybrid system...I hear the word over- provisioning alot on this site and wonder where you folks get your information from. I would say that in cases where the copper is in exceptiongly good shape you may get some exceptional speeds...Now if we were talking about analog data circuits then I would agree they can be what we call Mal-ajusted to satify the customer which still has it's risk when adjusting a circuit outside it tolerance ranges...I think this will all bee a moot point because copper is expensive to maintain and @ one point the telcos will move as far away from it as possible ideally to elinanate it altogether where possible.. it's just each one willhave a different approach to it. asi in Verizon with Fios more agressive that ATT, but Att will be in a position to to go all the way incrementally though... |
