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3Mbps is 0.20x (of 15Mbps) what he is paying for.
Bits != Bytes. Mbps == Megabits/sec MBps == Megabytes/sec
He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.
Hint: never use Comcast for residential service. Sign up for business service, even if you're just one person in an apartment. You get better support, less BS, and (likely) improved immunity to copyright-trolling law firms. They will still route about 10% of your packets via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of course, but that's just the nature of the beast.
This also prevents you from using your own modem and requiring you to lease one of theirs (not to mention requiring a year contract), doesn't it?
Granted I still think Comcast is the scum of the universe for myriad and sundry reasons, but at least this aspect of their service was fairly easy to set up. I still miss the FiOS I had back in Boston though :-(
The problem here is that Comcast and Verizon don't want to pay for the upstream bandwidth to the Netflix Open Connect CDN which means that as Netflix increases quality and gains additional subscribers, the time-weighted bitrate (TWBR, the metric they use to compare ISP performance) will continue to plummet. This isn't to say that all Comcast and Verizon customers will feel this pain, some markets have better performa…
The problem here is that Comcast and Verizon don't want to pay for the upstream bandwidth to the Netflix Open Connect CDN which means that as Netflix increases quality and gains additional subscribers, the time-weighted bitrate (TWBR, the metric they use to compare ISP performance) will continue to plummet. This isn't to say that all Comcast and Verizon customers will feel this pain, some markets have better performa…
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>What does the appliance cost my organization?
> The appliances (and any necessary replacements) are provided
> to participating ISPs free of charge when used within the
> terms of the license agreement.
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This also prevents you from using your own modem and requiring you to lease one of theirs (not to mention requiring a year contract), doesn't it?
You can use your own modem with Comcast business service (I do) but it took about two weeks of calling all the tech support numbers I could find until I finally got a tech who was able to do it. Not because it's hard to do, but because most of the people I talked to were lying or incompetent. The guy seemed a bit weirded out at how profusely I thanked him -- after all, all I'd done was tell him the model and MAC addr…
Hint: never use Comcast for residential service. Sign up for business service, even if you're just one person in an apartment. You get better support, less BS, and (likely) improved immunity to copyright-trolling law firms. They will still route about 10% of your packets via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of course, but that's just the nature of the beast.
During the four years that I had Comcast Service I found it to be very reliable and well run - well, except they wired the wrong apartment by mistake the first time they came out.
It took me about 2 months of fighting until they relented. There was a magic cocktail of proposed complaints involving the BBB, the PUC in my state, social media and others that finally liberated me from their contract.
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Bits != Bytes. Mbps == Megabits/sec MBps == Megabytes/sec
>I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky? He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.
What if we started netneutrality.js? Something that shows a banner on sites for people using Verizon/Comcast. Perhaps that will raise more awareness for the issue?
It would be interesting if such a script used WebRTC to collect data from many users in a distributed manner and stored the information in a DHT that researchers could query for data to determine which providers are and are not being a good netizens.
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-unveils-mobile-broadband-spe...
(source available here: https://github.com/FCC/mobile-mba-androidapp ).
It's currently more focused on mobile networks, but it also gathers Wi-Fi performance data as well. And given recent developments, I wouldn't be surprised to see the FCC broaden that focus.
What if we started netneutrality.js? Something that shows a banner on sites for people using Verizon/Comcast. Perhaps that will raise more awareness for the issue?
It would be interesting if such a script used WebRTC to collect data from many users in a distributed manner and stored the information in a DHT that researchers could query for data to determine which providers are and are not being a good netizens.