<div dir="ltr">Although I liked that this document mentioned latency 10 times, not measuring latency *with load* is like measuring the safety of a car only when it is parked.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Farber</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farber@gmail.com">farber@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:55 AM<br>Subject: [IP] Measuring broadband performance...or not?<br>To: ip <<a href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip@listbox.com</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suzanne Johnson <<a href="mailto:fuhn@pobox.com" target="_blank">fuhn@pobox.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Measuring broadband performance...or not?</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">May 20, 2015 at 9:32:35 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"DAVID J. FARBER" <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net" target="_blank">dave@farber.net</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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<h1><small><small>Why Is It So Dang Difficult To Get Accurate
Information About Broadband Speeds?</small></small></h1>
<p>Your cable company sells you a broadband plan advertising
download speeds of “up to 25Mbps.” But it feels sluggish to you so
you check out an online speed test site and it tells you you’re
only getting a fraction of that speed. Then the FCC comes out with
its Measuring Broadband America report which — if you can even
make heads or tails of it — says your ISP is actually exceeding
its advertised download speeds. Why don’t all of these things
agree?<span></span></p><p>A new report [<a href="https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/669739.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>] from the Government Accountability
Office finds that while there are multiple sources for information
on broadband performance, there is disagreement about exactly what
information should be shared and how to present it.</p>
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<a href="http://consumerist.com/2015/05/15/why-is-it-so-dang-difficult-to-get-accurate-information-about-broadband-speeds/" target="_blank">http://consumerist.com/2015/05/15/why-is-it-so-dang-difficult-to-get-accurate-information-about-broadband-speeds/</a><br>
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