 bencPremium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
 ·Charter
| The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds This is a step in the right direction I think, as an effort to determine what areas have broadband, and which don't. However, it's lacking in some ways, failing to address a few things:
Caps
Some ISPs have caps. If the limit is ridiculously low, such as 5GB per month, it shouldn't count.
Actual Availability
Not everyone subscribes to the maximum tier available to them. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
 ·Verizon Wireless..
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·VOIPo
·PHONE POWER
| quote:
Actual Availability
Not everyone subscribes to the maximum tier available to them.
Assuming they collect a lot of data, this won't matter. Typically at least a handful of people with a fast speed tier will perform a test, which is enough to statistically create clear groups of people on different speed profiles.
Back when BBR had the "best in class" speed test applet, the speed test result archive was a great place to "shop" and see what ISPs can do in your zip code. Now, probably not so much, I rarely see people using and recommending the official BBR tests. Speedtest.net's results portal is very, very weak by comparison.
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Mce SaintPremium
join:2007-10-03
Saint Louis, MO Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
| Isn't there the opposite problem? That is, people with limited broadband will be lumped in with people who have access to higher broadband speeds.
Most of the people living on my street have access to broadband at higher tiers than I or a handful of my neighbors do. Those of us at the outer limits of DSL (which, besides satellite or mobile broadband, is the only high speed internet available to us), will get lumped in with those HIGHER speeds . . . even though said speeds are NOT available to us (and probably won't be for some time to come). |
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