insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
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I took their speed test and they said my download speed was about 60% of what it is on speakeasy testing with a chicago server. But upload was the same. If they aren't testing each person with multiple locations, this data is actually trash. They should have asked people to declare their download and upload speeds and tested the connection from multiple locations from around the country. Then took the fastest speeds and compared them to what the advertised speeds were. They could have made 3 different maps: advertised speeds, actual speeds, and average speed to multiple locations. It would have been much more useful data. And since America is physically bigger the data in smaller countries is probably going to have less variance from advertised speeds since the data is traveling less distance through less systems though less chances of intermediate bottlenecks.
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I would also like to add that considering we are hearing a lot of news about canadian ISPs setting download caps, they should have also asked if the user knew if they had download caps and if so what they were. Again, another huge factor in the state of broadband. A 100mbit speed test is meaningless if the connection has a 40gb download cap. |
