Tuesday, December 28, 2010  

[Average or maximum speed?]

It seems that there are plans to make ISPs in Singapore reveal the average speed of their plans, instead of using the "rarely achievable" maximum speed.

I think this is similar to the cases of people who complain about getting expensive phone bills while roaming and found out that it was because they did not disable their data services. These people don't understand technology.

To say that the maximum speed is "rarely achievable" is not entirely true. While it is true that I have never had a single download that maxed out my 10Mbps connection, it is because no sane website administrator will allow his server to send data to someone at 10Mbps. Can you imagine the amount bandwidth he would need? That's madness.

If you want to hit your maximum speed, open a few more connections. Use a download accelerator that makes a few connections to the server, downloading several streams of the same file. That's the way the Internet works.

On the flip side, how the hell are the ISPs going to measure "average speed"? This is something that is virtually impossible to attempt. And if they do so, all Internet plans will probably be advertising more or less the same speed.

While I understand if the general public have no clue about such things, I can't believe "the powers that be" are thinking of implementing this. Shouldn't they have some knowledge of the subject matter before attempting to implement something? Something, in this case, which is not feasible at all?

^^^ by Locksley @ 8:53 PM. 0 comments.
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