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Want to know how your ISP compares to the rest of the world? Netflix launched an ISP Index Page today that lets you do just that.
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You really want to see how sucky your ISP is? Go to graph view and look where Google Fiber shows up compared to what you've got.
Me WANT MOAR FIBER!
Google Fiber is listed with an average speed of 3.35 Mbps ... so yeah, it's hardly a comparison of how sucky your ISP is.
i'd say part of this is also what people choose to buy, i know a lot of older fold that only get the 1.5 so they pay the least amount per month they can. i also know that it's the ISPs still offering the shitty 1.5 that need to up the minimum plan you can get. either way, i am happy with my 7m connection and i will remind you whippersnappers that us old folks used to measure speed with k's and not m's
i'd say part of this is also what people choose to buy, i know a lot of older fold that only get the 1.5 so they pay the least amount per month they can.
Agreed. Often times people just pay for the basic broadband package because it's cheap, not because there isn't anything better.
I know that here in Denver, Comcast can give you 30+Mbps up/ and 5+Mbps down in almost every single part of town if you're willing to pay for the premium service. I know it's not like that everywhere, but you can get speeds over 10MB in a TON of places if you want it. Most people just go with the cheap package, or whatever default package is bundled with other utilities.
Technically we didnt use k's either, it was just a 4 digit number.
Gotcha, becuase comparatively the other ISP's are even better. I think that's the point of a "comparative" chart. Averaged or not, GF is still kicking ass.
GF is not quite twice as good as U-verse... which is hardly the truth. In fact if I were on that list, I would be just as good as Google Fiber (which I'm not).
... and i will remind you whippersnappers that us old folks used to measure speed with k's and not m's
I'm pretty sure it's Mbits/s. Mashing all the stream ratings into one number is kind of dumb. These ratings are kind of insignificant, other than showing which ISPs have a higher proportion of faster service subscribers.I could be the one confused, but it seems like people are mixing up MBps and Mbps.
You really want to see how sucky your ISP is? Go to graph view and look where Google Fiber shows up compared to what you've got.
Me WANT MOAR FIBER!
I don't know about that, but either way it's impossible for Netflix to make an accurate estimate of how fast a particular connection is, for at least 2 reasons that I can think of:This is simply an updated chart of one they published quite some time ago..My ISP, Mediacom, at the time was listed @ #6, and has now fallen to #8..There is still an error in the chart's metric, which should read MB/s, NOT Mb/s..It simply refers to the average stream speed from Netflix and has little to do with the carrier's max speed..