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[riontel]

FCC 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.

Comments

[spamsink]

Я тормоз, поэтому в моем личном случае выяснил причину малой скорости интернета не так давно: после того, как попользуешься чем-нибудь типа P2P и выключишь его, IP-адрес сохраняется у клиентов, которые перезапрашивают данные у трекеров редко, в течение многих часов. Эти клиенты пытаются ломиться с суммарной частотой до десятков в секунду в мой раутер, который их, естественно, отражал, но трудолюбиво записывал сообщения об этих попытках в лог, на что уходило практически все его драгоценное процессорное время. Как только я выключил логгинг, всё стало гораздо быстрее.

[cryowizard.livejournal.com]

I second CV's speeds. They suck major ass between 2000 and 0000 hours. Doing anything Netflix'y is bound to produce royally shitty quality frames.

Now that I do see Verizon FIOS trucks downstairs laying down the fiber in our building, I'm ever more tempted to switch over...

[skyg74.livejournal.com]

That being said, there are some hours several times a week when my verizon fios is just dial-up slow :). But then again, comcast had days with now service at all, so I am not complaining

[riontel.livejournal.com]

That is no reason why that should be, have you tried to complain?

[riontel.livejournal.com]

We have both DSL and cable at home and cable definitely beats DSL but if we ever got FiOS in our building, I would switch in a heartbeat.

[riontel.livejournal.com]

That's not provider's fault, at least they are not throttling your p2p traffic.

[spamsink]

That's my point: I was under that mistaken impression for years!