Instat: Average Connection is 7.12 Mbps > They're wrong.

reply to KrK

Re: They're wrong.

Caps do not affect speed in any way, shape, or form.
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Jay: What the @#$% is the internet???

The industry has made it clear they are using caps for congestion (smart people know this is a BS comment because peak usage is not prevented with caps, but that is their excuse anyways).

By the industries own claims that their networks can't handle unlimited traffic, the only accurate way to gauge their network speeds is to adjust for caps.
They openly admit their networks can't handle the speeds they are offering and it is unfair to just say if only one person was on the network it can handle 25 mbps when in reality when thousands are on the network it can only handle 250GB a month or 768kbps.
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Republicans: less fiscally conservative than that other party.

Your reasoning is flawed. Specifically, your statement that the only accurate way to gauge their network speeds is to adjust for caps. By this reasoning, a provider that doesn't have caps will NEVER be subject to congestion or slower than advertised throughput, and that simply isn't true. Networks are not designed to allow all users to utilize all of their bandwidth at the same time.

Conversley, there are networks with absurdly low caps. These low caps are often not in place because the network cannot handle the speed; instead it is to enable overage charging to augment the providers bottom line.
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Jay: What the @#$% is the internet???

My reasoning is not flawed. As I said the ISPs are flawed when they claim they need caps to reduce congestion.
Based on the own ISPs claims, caps must be used in their speed measurement since they claim their networks can't operate without them.

When ISPs admit that caps are not to reduce network congestion and are really used to limit the internet and their customers from using competiting online video services then caps do not have to be used to adjust their speeds.

Until then a company like Comcast which has a 250GB cap per month is only a 768kbps network.

Also, look at it this way. If I want to use my connection for the entire 30 days and I want to use a total of 250GB then I have to limit my connection to 768kbps.
However on an ATT line I can download 250GB at 6mbps. I can even download more than 250GB at 6 mbps. I could download 1.6 TB during 30 days because they have a true 6 mbps connection.
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Republicans: less fiscally conservative than that other party.