chimera
join:2009-06-09
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| reply to morbo
Re: broadband definition should also include cap info The 90% test is a tough one to use. You could enforce this with mandatory QoS agreements, but I think that a better rule would involve specifying the maximum load-out a circuit can have which would be the capacity of the location your wired to divided by the number of connections going from it. Then you could also specify average speed based on a statistical model of usage. ISPs could easily include throttling in this to increase your numbers here, but again it would help them be honest.
Carriers could still specify their own limits, but they would be forced to be more transparent about it. So something like up to 3Mbps down, 20Kbps under maximum load and 1.2Mbps under normal load. Which could just be written as (3000 / 20 / 1200) down and (786 / 4 / 200) up. Since most large ISPs have some kind of a build out policy implementing this should be too hard, and just to be nice you could use a 95% rule where you only count your average for 95% of the centers in an area to help avoid the effects of outliers that have fallen in disrepair, need maintenance or are still under construction. |
