[123638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Fri Mar 12 10:24:23 2010
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1003120926310.12570@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:23:53 -0800
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I could imagine that the FCC sees it as a data source.
On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
>> I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests. I
>> particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.
>=20
> The FCC is probably doing this because US providers generally don't =
release actual bandwidth, speeds or latency numbers their consumer
> customers get. Advertised numbers often don't mean anything. If
> providers want to release better data, it might help the FCC =
understand
> the current environment.
>=20
> Some US providers have published data for their business customer =
connections and backbones.
>=20
>=20
http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF
