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Old 08-19-2010, 11:08 AM   #1
anaisdannyxys

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Default FCC study confirms: US broadband users are getting screwed
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...advertised.ars

Broadband providers in the US have long hawked their wares in "up to" terms. You know—"up to" 10Mbps, where "up to" sits like a tiny pebble beside the huge font size of the raw number.


In reality, no one gets these speeds. That's not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a new Federal Communications Commission report (PDF) shines a probing flashlight on the issue and makes a sharp conclusion: broadband users get, on average, a mere 50 percent of that "up to" speed they had hoped to achieve.
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