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Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by pcurve on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:39AM (#28566741)
It's shockingly good. I'm actually very proud of this statistic. Most won't see material difference between 200mbps vs #1 spot of 250mbps. It's negligible.

However.

I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test.

Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by zamalek on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:51AM (#28566912)
I'd also be more interested to the the first or fifth percentile rankings. I'd bet that we do pretty poorly, especially in terms of the 10mbps benchmark.

Edit: these stats also exclude people who have no internet at all (which is a subset of speed test users, but an important subset).

Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by yorwba on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:08PM (#28567142)
Seconded on sampling bias. It's a bit difficult to get a directly comparable figure from the FCC's Measuring Broadband America report, which tries to be representative. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad...

I guess the closest would be "In September-October 2019, the weighted average advertised download speed was 146.1 Mbps among the measured ISPs, which represents a 100% increase from 2017 and a 8% increase compared to the average in September-October 2018 which was 135.7 Mbps."

Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by rootusrootus on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:48AM (#28566873)
I'd wager most people's WiFi routinely stays well below 200Mbps anyway.
Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by TMWNN on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:14PM (#28570382)
>I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test.

Any sampling bias would apply to all countries, not just the US.