FCC: Broadband Speeds Often Slower than Advertised

[lauren]

In a press release regarding a status report for the FCC Broadband Task Force, it's noted that broadband speeds are often 50% to 80% lower than advertised.

--Lauren--

[jackypunker]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced in September that actual broadband speeds lag behind advertised speeds by as much as 50 percent to 80 percent. The FCC defines broadband as being at least 768 kilobits per second (Kbps) for download speeds. It could cost between $20 billion and $350 billion to accomplish the task, depending on if you want to just send e-mail with large PDF files or watch HD videos over the Web. And even the networks in place now aren't robust enough to meet the kind of traffic expected down the line. In practice, the advertised bandwidth is not always reliably available to the customer; ISPs often allow a greater number of subscribers than their backbone connection or neighborhood access network can handle, under the assumption that most users will not be using their full connection capacity very frequently.

[tijani]

it is common in all over the world that the speed advertised is mostly high than the speed you get .
specially the downloading speed.many of my friends in other countries also have this problem.