Re: E-petition

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:59:45 -0700, in uk.telecom.broadband , naza
<naza911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But these test should be carried out independantly so some ISP's will
fair better than others based upon thier network.

Technically almost impossible, I suspect.

To obtain an independent "typical" rate, you'd need the test company
to obtain readings by visting hundreds, possibly thousands, of
customers of each ISP and using their own kit to test download speeds
vs their own specially installed server inside that ISP's network.
This would be necessary to eliminate any effects due to dodgy customer
house wiring, old PCs, the performance of the remote server being
downloaded from, and the performance of the thousands of miles of
cable between the ISP and that remote server.

The ISP would (rightly) demand that all this be excluded from the
picture - after all its not their fault you're downloading from a ZX
spectrum in Outer Mongolia, and your girlfriend just stepped on the
network cable with her new high-heel boots, and your computer is an
original IBM-XT. :-)

So as long as the
typical rates are different it will make a change

I doubt it would help. We'll just have a new bunch of numbers to be
baffled by.

And smart marketing depts will say "typical 3Mb. But unlike our
competitors we have X23-JG2 interconnect technology backed by Frobozz
superstorage and Sirius Cybernetics Corp personal internet optimisers,
making your web smoother and peachier than some we could mention." And
you'll be none the wiser.
--
Mark McIntyre
.

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