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A non
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Re: [OOL] Ars Technica: Verizon FiOS, Cablevision top FCC speed

The reason CV exceeds their advertised speed is because they set the modem's cap at 147% of the advertised. The theory is that some people will get well above advertised speed and balance out the people who are far below advertised. This makes the average look good, but does little to help the people who are well below advertised.

I'm more annoyed at my upload, which is at only 77% of the modem's cap. Cablevision should be able to do better.
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said by A non :

This makes the average look good, but does little to help the people who are well below advertised.


When the average speed is 1.2X 15 = 18 mbps and the max is 20 mbps it means very few people are getting low speeds, since not everyone getting good speeds will get 20mbps all the time, some will get between 15-20mbps.

Verizon also sets it max higher and to get higher than advertised you have to set the max higher than advertised.