| What methods were used to measure? 99% of the time, my at&t connection was incorrectly identified as a Verizon connection. It is always wrong on the dslreports homepage and usually wrong on any site that tries to guess my carrier.
How did these guys calculate traffic for each carrier? |
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99% of the time, my at&t connection was incorrectly identified as a Verizon connection. It is always wrong on the dslreports homepage and usually wrong on any site that tries to guess my carrier.
How did these guys calculate traffic for each carrier?
This one is easy if one uses common sense. Typically each provider is given a range if IP addresses which are assigned to them. Then they assign that IP address to your phone when your in 3g mode.
Either 2 things are wrong here.... DSL reports data is incorrect on what ISP has what range if IP address's, or your somehow viewing this page by using a mobile device that is connected to your wifi hotspot that just happens to be verizon DSL...
If thats not the case, then the first one is most logical. Just like number porting, each company is assigned a bank of numbers and could start out at sprint, move to t-mobile, then to Verizon and then to ATT, but the minute you cancel, that number goes right back to Sprint... |
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| I understand the IP ranges and how sites guess who I'm using.
My post should have been more of a statement that I have doubs on how these guys came to their conclusions - especially since carriers are very protective of traffic on their networks. |
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said by EasyaCaveMan :said by omonymous :
99% of the time, my at&t connection was incorrectly identified as a Verizon connection. It is always wrong on the dslreports homepage and usually wrong on any site that tries to guess my carrier.
How did these guys calculate traffic for each carrier?
This one is easy if one uses common sense. Typically each provider is given a range if IP addresses which are assigned to them. Then they assign that IP address to your phone when your in 3g mode. Either 2 things are wrong here.... DSL reports data is incorrect on what ISP has what range if IP address's, or your somehow viewing this page by using a mobile device that is connected to your wifi hotspot that just happens to be verizon DSL... If thats not the case, then the first one is most logical. Just like number porting, each company is assigned a bank of numbers and could start out at sprint, move to t-mobile, then to Verizon and then to ATT, but the minute you cancel, that number goes right back to Sprint... I am connected via my tethered AT&T 3G cellphone right now. That phone does not have WiFi capabilities, the connection is strictly a 3G cellphone connection.
It would appear that AT&T and Verizon perhaps in some areas subcontract their 3G service to a third party provider. However, an nslookup for my current 3G IP address, shows its rDNS is registered to mycingular.net:
C:\>nslookup 166.193.96.16
Server: dcs-srv.dcs-net
Address: 192.168.10.2
Name: mobile-166-193-096-016.mycingular.net
Address: 166.193.96.16
At times however, an AT&T cell phone connection from this same location produces an rDNS domain of myvzw.com.
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DSLR on my iPhone on AT&T 3G | 
DSLR on my iPhone on Wifi |
apparently I don't know how to make thumbnails. |
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it is because they are members of the WDSPCO: Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation... and it seems they cant keep their reverse dns properly labeled (or don't care if they do).
check out : »www.wdspco.org/ |
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