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The internet used to be ran by engineers. Now it's ran by suits ... The former does what needs to be done, and all pitch in to move traffic. Suits on the other
by Qantourisc 13y ago
The internet used to be ran by engineers. Now it's ran by suits ...
The former does what needs to be done, and all pitch in to move traffic. Suits on the other hand only see $$$.
As for the suits: either your are overselling your bandwidth and you don't have enough money to make the necessary changes REGARDLESS of where the traffic is going/coming from. Or your just being greedy !
To fight this, I think it's best to get review ISP by their real speed. Then getting this information out to the public. So people can select the best ISP, and natural selection of the fittest(fairest ISP) will occur.
- jaynos 13y agoNot sure if that last part will work. I can definitely see Comcast allowing speed test to work to it's fullest and then buffering youtube and other sites where performance matters.
- estebank 13y agoWhat stops speed tests being done that use real sites for their tests? I could envision using a random YouTube/Netflix/Hulu video for a test to be done across several providers at the same time. Add some legal torrent and FTP servers as you're at it. That way you get results that can be compared directly. For end user results, you really don't need to be that thorough when comparing results (after all, if you're doing at different times on different you are already adding unhandled variables) you just use any random video from one of those providers.
- arbitrage 13y agoThere's more to judge an ISP by than just raw speed.
- wmf 13y agoHere's the latest FCC report on broadband ISP speeds: http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2013/February http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2013/February Unfortunately it doesn't measure real content providers so it may not detect peering problems.