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| Don't like these stats. They say all this about the fastest isp's in these areas but if it's user tests then isn't it only what they subscribe to? Example being, all of Titusville, Fl has brighthouse 40/5 available but most people subscribe to 10/1 in the bundle so these stats really don't mean anything. |
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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1 edit | Exactly, it isn't who is the fast ISP, it is what people are buying and who follow the PC Mag link.
Speedtest.net's ACTUAL results are quite different. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Well then, apparently Brighthouse's fast tier is too expensive for most folks, compared to the other tiers they offer.
Charter, on the other hand, offers a reasonably-priced 30/4 tier, so people buy it because it's the cheapest advertised tier and they don't want slow old DSL. |
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| said by iansltx:Well then, apparently Brighthouse's fast tier is too expensive for most folks, compared to the other tiers they offer.
Charter, on the other hand, offers a reasonably-priced 30/4 tier, so people buy it because it's the cheapest advertised tier and they don't want slow old DSL.
This has nothing to do with basing stats for the fastest isp on what people want to pay for. If people only want to pay for 10/1 and their capable of providing 100/100 in their entire footprint the speed in this stat comparison would be 10/1 and that doesn't make sense.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | I can get 100/100 here. For a few thousand per month. That doesn't make sense either. |
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| So that wasn't a good example. But I can and do get 40/5 for $79 a month so that still doesn't mean that this set of statistics shouldn't be called "The most speed people are willing their isp's for." Not the fastest isp's. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
| Unfortunately, Ookla doesn't get terribly specific when it comes to sectioning out the highest-speed users on a given ISP, in a given area. Probably because the sample size would be very small at that point, judging from some speed test data dumps I've seen from them (I bought one awhile back...pretty expensive, but insightful). |
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said by iansltx:Well then, apparently Brighthouse's fast tier is too expensive for most folks, compared to the other tiers they offer.
Charter, on the other hand, offers a reasonably-priced 30/4 tier, so people buy it because it's the cheapest advertised tier and they don't want slow old DSL.
People buy the 30/4 plan because it's the ONLY slow plan they offer, whether you want to pay that much of not!!
Charter has 2 plans. 30/4 and 100/5.
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