iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| Look at the Connected Nation website... Specifically, Connect Colorado...»connectcolorado.org.
Go to the speedtest. My Comcast connection, which registers 22/5+ elsewhere, didn't show advertised speeds here.
More subtle, look at the broadband reporting form. Prices are skewed toward the low end...DSL territory. $60 and above is lumped into one tier. So if I'm paying $75 for 22/5 Comcast I'm simply in the $60 and above tier.
The speed selector is even worse. The tiers are in kiloBYTES per second (emphasis mine) though the numbers associated with the drop-down are verbatim AT&T's DSL tiers (768, 1.5, 3, 6, 6+). Since most people don't know the difference between a bit and a byte, they'll likely rate their 3M DSL at 8x what it should be. Additionally, the lowest tier is effectively "up to six megabits per second." 99% of rural folks will fall into this territory...if they know the diffeence between KB/s and kbps. |
