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Aug. 2nd, 2011
Technology news
Aug. 2nd, 2011 03:44 pmFCC today published the results of the study they sponsored measuring actual vs advertised speeds of broadband offerings in the US. Unsurprisingly FiOS won by consistently offering speeds of up to 120% of advertised, as it's engineered to do. Comcast is also looking pretty good. AT&T, on the other hand, is not so hot and Cablevision just blows in a major way. If you don't want to read the full report, check out Ars Technica's nice summary complete with pretty graphs. If even that's too much, here is the gist:
This study indicates Comcast, Cox, and Verizon FiOS largely perform well, but other companies like Cablevision, AT&T, MediaCom, and Frontier all fail to deliver their customers the quality of service promised.
But one ISP stood out, and not in a good way: Cablevision had absolutely atrocious download speeds, dropping to nearly 50 percent of advertised speeds during peak hours.
Not surprisingly, fiber to the home was the best-performing technology, while DSL brought up the rear, but the differences were modest, especially for upload speeds.
The report also shows that, apart from Cablevision, Internet speeds no longer fall into the toilet when everyone comes home from work in the evening. And if you are lucky enough to have Verizon's FiOS—you won't notice any difference in speeds, ever.
This study indicates Comcast, Cox, and Verizon FiOS largely perform well, but other companies like Cablevision, AT&T, MediaCom, and Frontier all fail to deliver their customers the quality of service promised.
But one ISP stood out, and not in a good way: Cablevision had absolutely atrocious download speeds, dropping to nearly 50 percent of advertised speeds during peak hours.
Not surprisingly, fiber to the home was the best-performing technology, while DSL brought up the rear, but the differences were modest, especially for upload speeds.
The report also shows that, apart from Cablevision, Internet speeds no longer fall into the toilet when everyone comes home from work in the evening. And if you are lucky enough to have Verizon's FiOS—you won't notice any difference in speeds, ever.