Broadband service providers in the United States are celebrating the results of the Federal Communications Commission’s findings on the contentious question of broadband speeds in the country. The FCC has found that actual sustained download speeds are much closer to the speeds advertised by ISPs than was the case in early 2009. Sustained speeds refer to speeds averaged over a period of several seconds, and the FCC used this measure because broadband Internet access service is “bursty” in nature, meaning there are some periods where it’s faster than others, due to network congestion.
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Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 5, 2011 05:00 AMBroadband service providers in the United States are celebrating the results of the Federal Communications Commission’s findings on the contentious question of broadband speeds in the country. The FCC has found that actual sustained download speeds are much closer to the speeds advertised by ISPs than was the case in early 2009. Sustained speeds refer to speeds averaged over a period of several seconds, and the FCC used this measure because broadband Internet access service is “bursty” in nature, meaning there are some periods where it’s faster than others, due to network congestion.