cable companies should say min and max speeds!! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21366266 en Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:50:56 EDT Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:50:56 EDT Re: cable companies should say min and max speeds!! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366694 jester121 : Thank God you're not in charge of an ISP.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366694 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:16:15 EDT Re: cable companies should say min and max speeds!! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366650 MacLeech :
said by mikedz4 See Profile :

I think cable companies should state the minimum and maximum speeds. It might take a while but if they survey each node they can tell how slow people and how fast people are going on each speed tier.
Then when you call the agent would say:
"ok bob, you are on node 12569. We just finished testing the speeds on that node last week, for people who choose the blazing fast internet package for $75/month, the minimum speed over a 3 weeks period was 20 mbps down and 3 mbps down, the maximum speed was 50 mbps down and 10 mbps down thus you can expect an average speed of 35mbps down and 7 mbps up."
See that wasn't hard, was it. Just may take some work.
How would "they" test speed? To a particular website or raw data throughput measured on an interface?

Would you filter out slow speeds caused by slow computers, bad modems, or other possible customer caused issues?

What if half the node has good speeds and the other half doesn't?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366650 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:02:38 EDT cable companies should say min and max speeds!! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366266 mikedz4 : I think cable companies should state the minimum and maximum speeds. It might take a while but if they survey each node they can tell how slow people and how fast people are going on each speed tier.
Then when you call the agent would say:
"ok bob, you are on node 12569. We just finished testing the speeds on that node last week, for people who choose the blazing fast internet package for $75/month, the minimum speed over a 3 weeks period was 20 mbps down and 3 mbps down, the maximum speed was 50 mbps down and 10 mbps down thus you can expect an average speed of 35mbps down and 7 mbps up."
See that wasn't hard, was it. Just may take some work.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21366266 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:11:40 EDT