Where average speeds are roughly half of what the advertised speeds are, what are the minimum speeds like? Could they be improved upon?
Given the massive disconnect between the actual and advertised speeds, how is a broadband buyer to know in advance how well the connection will function?
What if ISPs had to advertise minimum speeds? In Hungary, they do
Not too surprising. What they need is a way to speed up broadband connections.
In reality, no one gets these speeds. That's not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a new Federal Communications Commission report (PDF) shines a probing flashlight on the issue and makes a sharp conclusion: broadband users get, on average, a mere 50 percent of that "up to" speed they had hoped to achieve.After crunching the data, FCC wonks have concluded that ISPs advertised an average (mean) "up to" download speed of 6.7Mbps in 2009. That's not what broadband users got, though.
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