Looking at these two comments, perhaps we may be reaching an agreement. There are only a relatively few numbers that really matter, although there's tons of com

Looking at these two comments, perhaps we may be reaching an agreement. There are only a relatively few numbers that really matter, although there's tons of complexity. Bandwidth should be a number giving sustained symmetrical throughput over a month + burst capability + download cap, all using the same units. All of those numbers should be 5+ hops away, and should be over a backbone to a server owned by somebody else besides the ISP. In addition, there would be some QoS to show that things like the burst number actually exists for the user 5%+ or more of the time (or some different metric). Heck, there could probably be a bunch more detail you'd add under there, but 3 numbers + access_to_wider net probably covers it. So in the college example, they're getting (perhaps) .1/100/300 I think if we could just agree on a way to advertise it, we'd be ahead of the game. Net access is becoming like buying PCs: full of jargon and product differentiators meant more to confuse the buyer than assist them.