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It's shockingly good. I'm actually very proud of this statistic. Most won't see material difference between 200mbps vs #1 spot of 250mbps. It's negligible. H
by pcurve 5y ago
It's shockingly good. I'm actually very proud of this statistic. Most won't see material difference between 200mbps vs #1 spot of 250mbps. It's negligible.
However.
I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI'd wager most people's WiFi routinely stays well below 200Mbps anyway.
- zamalek 5y agoI'd also be more interested to the the first or fifth percentile rankings. I'd bet that we do pretty poorly, especially in terms of the 10mbps benchmark. Edit: these stats also exclude people who have no internet at all (which is a subset of speed test users, but an important subset).
- yorwba 5y agoSeconded on sampling bias. It's a bit difficult to get a directly comparable figure from the FCC's Measuring Broadband America report, which tries to be representative. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broadband-america/measuring-fixed-broadband-tenth-report https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad... I guess the closest would be "In September-October 2019, the weighted average advertised download speed was 146.1 Mbps among the measured ISPs, which represents a 100% increase from 2017 and a 8% increase compared to the average in September-October 2018 which was 135.7 Mbps."
- TMWNN 5y ago>I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test. Any sampling bias would apply to all countries, not just the US.