bignate
join:2005-12-05
Austin, TX
| reply to Jameson
Re: Interesting idea but....
the problem is that it is impossible to test for sure.. the web is one of those weakest link kind of things.
like for instance if you have 1.5m/384k dsl and your buddy has the same thing and you download from him you are going to get 384 at best. even though your down speed is 1.5, his upload is only 384, so you will get 384. and even less than that if he has any other applications taking up any bandwidth.
it works the same on the web, even though again you have 1.5m, the site you are going to may either not have that much bandwidth or have too many people using up that bandwidth at any given moment keeping you from achieving the 1.5 you are paying for.
throughput has both ends and everything in between to deal with. all we are buying is a speed from our houses to the internet portal... |
