Is Your ISP Delivering Advertised Speeds? > Notice:

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reply to aciddrink
If you read the report you would see this is based on the data from the "Sam Knows" whiteboxes in consumer homes and not providers tests.
The sam knows boxes do record the burst speed, and also the shaped speeds this report is based on.
SpeedBoost was not a factor.
Being a samknows tester , I know I consistently meet or exceed my advertised speed 99%+ of the time and am very close the other 36 or so hours per YEAR. That exceeds my expectations.

I don't believe most/any of the providers are attempting to manipulate the data or collection process, but it would be interesting to see a comparison of their in house tests VS what these test show.

reply to aciddrink
As much as I think every company delivers like crap, the issue is how they track specific areas. Not how they measure the speed. They haven't even gotten to a good method of determining how to define an area properly.

reply to aciddrink
Cablevision does not speedboost and neither does Verizon. They both over provision the speeds so that you get a little more then advertised.

reply to tshirt
Do you have any idea how much extra data one of those SamKnows boxes uses every month? I've considered signing up as a volunteer, but I'm going to be forced onto a cap by Mediacom sooner or later (currently grandfathered in as unlimited) and might not have a huge amount of data to spare for testing.

(I suppose I could also just write a script to do it myself, but I'm still curious about SamKnows)

Thanks in advance!

it ranges from 10gb to 20gb from my experience. not much.

And if you tell them it's a problem they will put it in "limited reporting" mode = less tests/off peak= still worth knowing and reporting.