Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains...
by michaelmrose on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:36PM
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I don't think measuring the average speed is even remotely a meaningful measure.
Imagine
scenario 1
3 users with gigabit 4 users have dialup 3 users have nothing
Scenario 2:
4 users with gigabit 6 users with nothing
Scenario 3: 10 users have 50 Mbps
In scenario 1 the average is 300 even though only 30% of people have real internet access and 70% either can barely send email or have nothing at all. Scenario 2 is even better at 400 even though most people have nothing.
Another way to look at it is that one person with gigabit is as good as numerically as 20 people with real internet or 100 people with basic internet.
Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains...
by welterde on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:50PM
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The whole networking infrastructure is privatized as well though in Germany (since 1995) - so it doesn't support the argument that private competition is somehow better, since both have it.
While in general I agree that competition is great - I don't think that applies to the last mile (from the next PoP to the customer).
The whole report is here: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... Other interesting statistics: 48% of American connections are above 15 mbps; in Germany its 33%. Maryland, which has almost exactly the same population density as Germany, is at 60%.