 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
1 edit | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: US vs EU not far apart I wonder if the total number of broadband users has any impact on the quality? Other than China, which is surprisingly low on the total number of broadband subscribers by percentage of their population, no other country in the world comes close to the US in the total number of broadband users.
How many different ISP's are available in the Netherlands, Sweden, or Denmark? We probably have more DOCSIS 3.0 Comcast subscribers than all of those countries' broadband users combined. If we were to use just FiOS and Comcast as our benchmarking results, we would be doing much better.
By kicking out the bottom half of every nation's broadband users, I bet most of these other top performing countries would see nearly the same stats. However, I bet the US would skyrocket upwards if we were to only use the best 40 million internet connections. We simply have more choices and a much wider variance from top to bottom. In other words, the first 2.5 million Dutch broadband users are probably nearly identical in performance to the rest of the 2.5 million or so users. That is not likely here in the US, where surely the top 40 million enjoy much better speeds and latency than the bottom 40 million "broadband" users.
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