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From the files of the sorrowful but Totally Expected Dept.: The FCC is out with a new report (direct PDF link) that implies that the common consumer gets an awful lot less bandwidth than nearly every broadband provider advertises as their ” up to” speed-as in , ” Stand up to 10 Mbps downloads!” (You can find the common percentages for each broadband speed tier above). This initial study used mass network data, but the agency is now installing boxes in homes to get a wiser have a look at what consumers really get, versus what’s advertised. Is your personal connection a miles cry from your advertised speed? What quite variation do you notice in network speeds inside the day? [Ars Technica]
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