The FCC wants
you to help it kill bogus ISPs, and its primary weapon is its
Consumer Broadband Test, released to the world last week. 150,000 people have already done their part, giving a glimpse at some early statistics describing just what the state of American downloadin' looks like. Average download from the Ookla test is a respectable 11.5Mbps and upload is 2.09Mbps, but if you look at the spread of those results a full half of test takers have a rather more pedestrian 4Mbps maximum download. An early map is included below showing results by state but, as
Ars Technica points out, many of the "surprise" dark green entries (like Georgia) have only had a few-thousand respondents thus-far, and you can figure most are in-the-know enthusiasts paying extra to get their digital goods more quickly. It still remains to be seen exactly
what the FCC will do with all these stats, because it doesn't seem to be releasing data tying speeds to ISP just yet. Hopefully that's coming.
posted March 19th 2010 8:29AM
@racerx124 lol, sucks to be in that data plan. and why the high price tag for 90 bucks a month? lol.
@racerx124
That's about how much we pay in Iraq. Except 128K is considered "high speed".
@racerx124
can you do satellite, like hughesnet where your at??? It would be about $60 a month for 1.5mbs, $90 I think is 2.5mbs
11 is respectable? Considering we've been bilked for 200 billion on promises of 45/45, I'd say that's laughable.
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
Lol, chart fail. All shades of green. :))
Cal Tech get about 33mb download while home (AT&T) just 5mb.
I still can't shake my tinfoil belief that any traffic to or from Ookla gets absolute, tipi-ty-top traffic priority by all the ISPs.
can we get a median as well? mean averages are fine, but fios down there in southern cali is severely hurting the average!
Long Island and New York city should be seperate from NY state. Cablevision has up to 100 down in the long island nyc area and fios has i think up to 75 down in those areas.
There needs to be an asterisks in Virginia. Once you are 100 miles outside of D.C., that speed drops massively, unless you are near on of our many colleges, but those don't really count.
YAY Minnesota! REPRESENT!
@puker33
When is Favre going to sign his 20th year?
August? September?
January, 2011?
hmm, I guess most of the people in the islands use Road Runner cable, because I don't get those speeds.
GA has pretty fast download speeds, but it's only stable if you live near the metro area. The rural areas are lucky enough to get broadband/DSL, but it drops in and out daily. Even the poorest folks here (trailer park or project residents) get high speed internet access.
in japan is 120 Mb/s (megabits)
So I just went to the FCC's site and tested my home charter connection rated at 10mbps down...real speed? 5.6mbps. Same test performed at my place of work? 44777kbps down, 18355kbps up. Yeeeeeeaaaah. We have an OC3 here.
@Hbishop
If it gets my speed up beyond the piss poor 10Mbps (hah, never happens!) that TWC max out at here I'll happily pay for increased broadband speed.
Especially if it's from someone else.
Cost isn't a problem. It's the territorial pissing contest from cablecos that is. They are the ones who refuse to improve unless FiOS comes to town.
if you make the dark green blue and the light green red you may see a pattern! LOL
Georgia is home to Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech has the fastest internet on the East Coast, (short of the Pentagon), and they are the Tier 1 backbone to many ISP's.
Looks like should call my ISP. I am getting just 1.2gig up & 350kbs in CA :( well it is just $25 for 1.5gig DSL a month.... Or am I getting ripped off from AT&T for that speed??? Anyone??? (I do Not want Comcast Cable)
@Seemore Well where I live, you can get 1.5megabit/384kilobit for $25 a month from Windstream.
@cloud858rk
I live about 15 miles as the crow flys from Chico. I ment 1.5mbs not gig, got gigs on the brain. $25 month is with taxes & all thous hidden fees. I am not under contract with AT&T & they do now reasonly offer higher speed of 3.5mbps for $35 a month for my address.
1.5mbps, real speed is 1.2mbps & I am fine with that speed but it is when it drops low like in the 700kbs is the part I really hate, you can Not watch YouTube or any videos, like news online. & it will stay that way (700is kbps) for a few days then jump back-up to 1.2mbps for a few weeks my be a month then starts all over. Sometime I know they are doing work, understandable that it may drop in speed for a few hours but not 2-3 days stright :p
I do not download HD or even SD videos, so I do not need "super speeds", I am one of those people that if I want to see a movie I just buy the Blu-Ray or DVD.
I just want stable speeds.
My rant :)
georgia is a surprise!?! Pfftt.... noob. Atlanta is a major tech hub with fiber lines and POPs everywhere.