Comments on: The FCC Wants to Test Your Broadband Speed Limit http://gigaom.com/2010/04/09/the-fcc-wants-to-test-your-broadband-speed-limit/ Wed, 22 May 2013 02:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The FCC Wants You! (to Test Your Broadband Speed) « WTI NewsBlog http://gigaom.com/2010/04/09/the-fcc-wants-to-test-your-broadband-speed-limit/#comment-246831 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:50:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=111948#comment-246831 [...] 91 percent are “very” or “somewhat” satisfied by the speeds. To that end, the FCC is continuing with previously announced plans to deploy hardware from SamKnows Ltd. that measures actual connection speeds in the homes of [...]

]]> By: Sassy Lou http://gigaom.com/2010/04/09/the-fcc-wants-to-test-your-broadband-speed-limit/#comment-246830 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:58:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=111948#comment-246830 It’s a racket. I wouldn’t trust the FCC as far as i could stretch towards my own privates. The FCC are control freaks..a remnant of an era long ago that is struggling with to keep afloat in the internet age. Regulating people’s free speech and will….while corporations were deregulated how much they could get away with.

Anyway…any geekophile will tell you anywhere on blogs and youtube…that the U.S. is getting shafted by cable companies while our European counterparts have upload and downloads speeds 3-5 times faster without upload caps. Why do they need to go through all this testing on YOUR MACHINES? Any idiot can go war driving and test various open signals. I bet none will get the fast speeds as the Europeans or Japanese.

]]> By: Brett Glass http://gigaom.com/2010/04/09/the-fcc-wants-to-test-your-broadband-speed-limit/#comment-246829 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:31:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=111948#comment-246829 The SamKnows bid was a “lowball” bid. It isn’t enough to fund a project that would produce meaningful results.

Think about it: a half decent Internet router, modified to include testing capabilities, would have to cost at least $50. And the project is supposed to test performance in 10,000 households. That’s $500K right there — without accounting for labor, programming, development of tests, distribution of hardware, followup with the customers hosting the test equipment, compilation of results, etc.

Why didn’t the FCC notice something fishy when it got such a low bid in?

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