wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·BroadVoice
| Open wide, here comes some more propaganda
Regardless of how you feel about the state of the US broadband industry, no rational person can argue that this report isnt extremely biased. As such, its not worth the paper its printed on and should be completely ignored. There is nothing to see here folks, please move along. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| Is this data collected from their speed test on their website? If so I call 100% BS. I ran the test from two locations, one on the east coast, on on the west coast. The west coast location has 300Mb in that datacenter the east coast has 50mb in that datacenter. Their site's test results were way off. When this site first appeared on DSLR I tested from both locations and neither site reached the 10Mb their test claims to support.
I've just retested from both sites
The 45Mb site tested at 6517kbps/4850kbps.
The 300Mb site tested at 1904kbps/1569kbps.
How about a real, accurate test. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| There's tons of B.S. on these stats.
Even if 10-20Mbps was available (again, this was 2006-2007 data), who says that everyone (or anyone) on the highest tiers participated in many areas? There's a real flaw in their measurements.
Actual service available vs. actual service purchased and run against their site.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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ElJay
join:2004-03-17
·Great Works Internet
| I agree, this is a very flawed report. In my area I purchase 3mbps DSL because it's basically all I need and it costs less. 20mbps is available for twice as much money. Of course finding this out is a lot more difficult than just having people enter a ZIP code into a speed test. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Yup
I have multiple carriers that will sell me 10Mbps or higher.
I have no requirement for +10Mbps, or to pay for it.
A $25/month 3Mbps/512kbps works well for me.
I suspect that 'caps' will force users to hit higher packages in the near future though.
Eg. a 5GB cap/month on a 1.5-3Mbps DSL line would force me to a higher tier... even if I don't need the higher data rate.
This is a winfall for ISPs.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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