FCC Report: ISPs Still Struggling to Deliver Advertised Speeds

20ish Mbit muxing to 4.5-6Mbit would seem to indicate a 30%.

I feel really bad for frontier subscribers

80% of "max advertised" isn't really struggling. My speedometer goes to 160MPH but I doubt my car can even do 80MPH.

I'd rather have 50% of a 10 mbit segment than 150% of a 1 mbit link.

A report clearly shows ISPs are still failing to provide advertised speeds...

... tell that to the tax payers 40 years ago that paid for the cable in the first place ... government sold it to private ...

So you work a full 480 minutes per 8 hour shift? I wish I was your manager so I could have an employee that understand working one less minute than a full 8 hour shift is theft.

How do you like the strict interpretation of the rules applied to you?

Again, just FOUR of FOURTEEN ISPs are capable of delivering speeds they PROMISE IN ADVERTISING at peak times. That's struggling to meet their own standards, by any definition.

80% of "max advertised" isn't really struggling. My speedometer goes to 160MPH but I doubt my car can even do 80MPH.

I'd rather have 50% of a 10 mbit segment than 150% of a 1 mbit link.

The majority of ISPs are meeting their advertised goals. The headline doesn't reflect the reality. The only ISP still needing much improvement is Frontier. The rest are delivering what they promise to their customers.

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The first report noted that most ISPs delivered actual download speeds within 80 percent of advertised speeds. This year, the report found that most ISPs delivered speeds within 90 percent of advertised speeds

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Why is this a surprise? These are businesses which have a simple model, gouge the consumer as deep as you can get away, providing as little as you can get away with.

... after the billions of dollars tax payers have paid ...

I've given up on Frontier. They have more outages than any company I deal with and their service is usually awful. I had one location with consistent 10% packet loss, they resolve the issue by lowering the packet size without telling customers thus causing several websites to not load until we found out they changed that.
I have another location that has had congestion for over 6 months and they've done nothing to resolve it. I called in every week for over 2 months, but they barely recognize the issue even exists.

I had Samknows set up at my previous apartment with Charter and I usually tested at 15.3/3.1....I was happy with that.

Ironically, I too have some Verizon DSL locations that are less than stellar...I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing their service is poor....wait a minute perhaps I'm being too hard on Frontier, they purchased the terrible service from Verizon.

The reason Cablevision 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.

I'm seeing more like 119% or 59 megabits... not 73, and not 64... maybe this is happening on more of the 15 megabit tier as they either split nodes, or let these lower tier customers have docsis 3 modems. Always said Cv can do alot better on the upstream.. at least be reasonable ratios 3:1 4:1