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notjake123 | 3 years ago

I think that's a bad metric because it does not measure the actually speed of the network i.e I could get 2000 down but I only pay for 50.

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p1necone|3 years ago

Yeah - to get a decent idea you'd need to measure $/mbps as well as measuring average speed. And measure best available rather than what people have opted for personally.

E.g.

* Country/ISP A has 4 gigabit fiber for $100/month, and 1 gigabit for $50/month.

* Country/ISP B has 4 gigabit fiber for $100/month, and 1 gigabit for $90/month.

In country A a lot more people are going to opt for 1 gigabit - it's way cheaper and still good enough - therefore their average speed stat is going to be lower even though the actual options are strictly better than in country B.