Comcast & The FCC

[FTVfanatic]

Originally Posted by neukgraag

However, in reality, of course, it is limited by the host server and the path to my house and FTV is comparable to other sites in that respect. Only Kink.com has considerably faster transfer rates.

...Ultra 22 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload (up to 30 Mbps/7 Mbps with PowerBoost)
Extreme 50 50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload

Imagine that.

That's correct. Nowadays your download speed seem to be effected by the limits on the servers. There are both bandwidth caps and throttling going on nearly everywhere. Getting a faster connection doesn't necessarily make things faster in real life. However, there are other sites to the one you mention with 'decent' bandwidth. 'Website 1' has allowed download speeds of up to 1.5 Mbytes/s or 12 Mbits/s, but averaged at half that speed. That content was in .mp4 (BTW the format of content seems to have an effect on download speed on a same server...). On 'Website 2' the .mpg files downloaded at only 500 kbytes/s or 3.9 Mbits/s. However, the zip files peaked at 2.5 Mbytes/s. Yes, that's 20 Mbits/s real world speed!

Those Ultra and Extreme connections seem interesting. However, the upload looks kind of restrected to me. Luckily, I'm fortunate to have equal speed in both uploading and downloading. How fast is my connection? Well, fast enough: 24 Mbps download/24 Mbps upload

There is a good broadband speed test on the internet that is easy and free to do. It gives good measures of one's real connection speed. I won't link it here, but finding the site is easy.