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This varies wildly by location and company. Approximately half my family is subscribed to Cox, and the other half mostly to Spectrum. The Cox connections neve
by causality0 6y ago
This varies wildly by location and company. Approximately half my family is subscribed to Cox, and the other half mostly to Spectrum. The Cox connections never drop below 80% of their advertised speeds and the Spectrum ones rarely rise above 50%. Huge swaths of Spectrum's service area are so resource-starved they don't rise above 10% of their advertised speeds during daylight hours.
- dependenttypes 6y agoIMO, there should be some regulation where they should be forced to mention the current and maximum allocation that they are willing to make as well as the average/median bandwidth that the active users enjoy per hour.
- bleepblorp 6y agoThe UK has a rule which requires ISPs to only advertise speeds achievable by 50% of users during peak periods. Customers are also allowed to leave contracts without penalty if ISPs are unable or unwilling to provide advertised speeds to the end user[0]. Such rules are not within the American Overton window for the usual reasons. [0] https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/ask-our-expert/broadband-speed-advertising-is-changing-but-how https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/ask-our-expert/broadband-...
- ATsch 6y agoGermany has a website that lets you automatically file a complaint if your provider doesn't reach 90% of the advertised speed in measurements over two days