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So, is it testing home internet speeds, or really how good your wifi AP works?
by daniellarusso 6y ago
So, is it testing home internet speeds, or really how good your wifi AP works?
- bscphil 6y agoHmm. Ideally, your AP should handle speeds at least as fast as your WAN downlink provides, and most Americans have an AP provided by their ISP, so even if in some cases the AP is effectively throttling the connection, the ISP should get the blame in the end anyway. (Obviously there are exceptions to this, but I don't think the FCC is suing anyone on the basis of this data...)
- neogodless 6y ago> most Americans have an AP provided by their ISP Is this accurate, and is there some way to see statistics on this? Based on assumptions, that the majority just accepts what the ISP sends them when they sign up, it's likely. But I do my best to make sure me and everyone who trusts me escapes the model rental trap, and gets set up with a router they own and completely control. To reword this, I don't really want to put wireless access point responsibility on the ISP, because I don't want the default to be that you're relying on them. I just want them to provide "dumb" pipes to my house to shuttle data in and out.