| Extreme 50 I live in the Minneapolis area, subscribe to Comcast's Extreme 50, and regularly get 61 Mbps Speedtest results due to Powerboost. I am not surprised that we have fast broadband here, as we have *some* measure of ISP competition versus the rest of the nation.
In my neighborhood I have access to Qwest, Comcast, Mediacom, and Earthlink Broadband (over Comcast's infrastructure). I feel that Comcast is definitely the only competent ISP in town, but at least they try to compete.
The Star Trib article seems to be written for tards that don't actually know anything about the state of network affairs in the Twin Cities.
After all, the geeks like me are the ones that use Speedtest.net daily to see that we're not getting screwed out of our bandwidth that costs $181.52 a month (mine). I think that might be skewing the numbers towards people that care vs. the people that have never visited the site, like my mother, and that old lady at Super Target. |
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BlueC
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Minneapolis, MN | Unfortunately, if you really were a geek, you'd know to use jperf instead of the unreliable HTTP tests like speedtest.net. :\ |
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| I use jperf to test my home network, but how would you use it to test WAN bandwidth? I assume you have to connect to a WAN server running jperf in server mode? |
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Hey now, I like the shiny dials that Speedtest provides. They make me feel special. |
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