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kudos:3 | reply to pnh102
Re: Not Real Data ... sooooooo. great. We'll waste money, in some form or another, to find out what the "average speed in America is" to some one provider or site then eh?
Very nice..
This would assume that all traffic on the internet goes to one place, and it doesn't. This also assumes that everyone is going to take the same path TO that destination over the same backbones as well.
This is just silly.. why, if the GOVERNMENT is so up in arms about this, why don't they simply make up some rules, like they love to do, and invade the ISP AND the homes of customers, including their lives as well, and install their monitoring equipment in THOSE locations.
In the end, the only speed that the ISP can guarantee, or even try to guarantee, is that between the customer and the central office or head end. I don't think there is an argument that the ISPs have enough bandwidth out to the cloud, otherwise their entire city or service area would be consistently slow. Even then, if they find "slow connections" I'd think they'd have to monitor the entire node, in the case of cable, to see if it's an isolated issue or not.. I mean, it just seems like they're trying to find a needle in a haystack becuase there could be any number of reasons why an internet connection slows down - and "averages" don't prove anything either.. like I said, TOO many things that CAN go wrong which include issues INSIDE the home. (Hell, a few weeks ago, I could have SWORE that I was having modem problems - even swapped it out. It worked great for 2 minutes, and then it died again - turned out, one of my boxes had a virus on it and was taking the connection down.. I supposed that was Comcast's fault? .. an average consumer would seem to think so.. been there, seen that, done it.)
But really.. if they want to measure speeds, then they need to treat it like anything else.. go in, be upfront, and monitor the sources directly.. this just all sounds like a 5th grader sneaking around trying to find answers on their own.. its stupid, silly, horribly inaccurate and won't yield anything.
Seriously - they should approach this like weights and measures IF this is so important to them.. |
