[TriLUG] Chapel Hill 3rd fastest internet in world

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I have noticed my TW speeds have seemed to increase quite a bit from what they were. Going to check my reports when I get home.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Cristóbal Palmer
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:42 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Chapel Hill 3rd fastest internet in world

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:
>
> So, no basis to use this report to claim U.S. consumer broadband
> penetration is high.

Just to follow up on this.... the methodology is hugely flawed if they
have to say something like this: "However, it may also be the case
that the speed of local consumer broadband offerings is potentially
higher than average." I am all too familiar with the home and business
offerings of several vendors in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and they are
universally terrible compared to what I get from UNC ITS Networking if
I plug in with a wire /anywhere/ on campus, much less the nice fat
pipes I can get if I'm in certain science labs or library offices. The
average of a UNC dorm room wall jack -> Internet and a Carrboro cable
modem -> Internet is not a meaningful number.

So please, if any of you see or hear somebody holding up this "study"
as justification for anything, slap them down quickly and forcefully.

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
ibiblio.org systems
cdla.unc.edu research assistant
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