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In other news, download speeds up 35.8%, upload speeds up 22.0% in the year since the repeal.

https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/

I take it you didn't actually check the sources your article used? Because the links they cite in their very first sentence contradict what that sentence says. They said:

Since the repeal of “net neutrality” took effect on June 11, the U.S. internet speed has gone from 12th to 6th fastest in the world

But if you follow those links, you'll see that the "12th" link goes to December 2017—seven months prior to the repeal of net neutrality taking effect—rather than to June 11th, when it actually happened. On June 11th, the US was ranked 9th, not 12th.

Now, you might argue that 9th to 6th is still a big improvement, but it really isn't. That jump only required a meager 5 Mbps improvement because there was a cluster of countries in the rankings all around the same speed. In contrast, the jump from 12th to 9th—which, again, happened prior to the repeal taking effect—required a 15 Mbps improvement due to the countries being more spread out in speed around those ranks. So when you're saying that "internet traffic in the US has increased significantly" since the repeal took effect, let's be clear that the actual increase isn't the 21 Mbps that the article would have you believe: it's only a quarter of that.

But even if we ignore the inconvenient facts that contradict the article's claims, the real argument they are trying to make is that speeds are better today because of the repeal. But if you look back through the data, all I see is a trend line that—aside from a three month blip when there was a lot of uncertainty leading up to the vote—has been fairly consistent for some time now. Blip aside, things were were steadily improving before the vote to repeal, kept up prior to the repeal taking effect, and have continued now that the repeal has come into effect. There really isn't an argument to be made either way.

Ugh, RTFL. Here's the source data. Linked from the link you didn't bother to read.

By increasing bandwidth.
12th fastest in the world to 6th fastest in the world.
The graph of average US broadband download speeds shows a sudden uptick right after the repeal was announced, and a slightly faster rate of increasing speeds after that compared to before the announcement.

The first month since the announcement of the repeal saw an increase in US average broadband download speeds from roughly 78mbps to about 82mbps. Before that the increases were less than 2mbps/month and afterward the increases have been just below 3mbps/month. Behaviour outside of the graph is not commented on in the graph.

Upload has been fairly flatline during this timeframe.

I live in a South East Asian country that most Americans would probably classify as third world. Nominally, my connection is 300MBps in both directions. I just measured the actual speed at 96M down, 62M up, which is probably at least partially limited by the fact that I'm on WiFi and too lazy to plug a LAN cable into the router for a real test. This connection costs me $44 per month.

Top of the rankings according to Speedtest Global Index. Slightly rub it in your face though as the US is 42nd. I wonder how many people with dial up do a speed test though? Do they have the bandwidth to do one? Could they be bothered?

Yours isn't? Weird.

I live in Europe and I get 300MBs symmetrical with 5ms ping for $30 a month. It's fiber all the way to my router.

All speeds measured and confirmed: http://www.speedtest.net/resul...

I live in the "capitol" of Europe (Brussels), and random outages, phone-lines randomly swapped around, regular drops in connection speeds, and max option is 100/15 MBits (seems recently upped from 50/15).

Unlimited data, unless you use more than 100GB/Month, then there's add-ons or throttled to 5Mbit.

Phone+inet+IPTV is delivered via copper (from a box down the road), and you can see the wiring dangling off of buildings even in the more well-off areas.

Oddly enough, when perfomance drops, visiting Speedtest.net brings it right back up .....

Build new networks that are not just paper insulated wireline?

Usable bandwidth to the dwelling would allow for 4K, HD and other video resolutions on demand.

Yours isn't? Weird.

I live in Europe and I get 300MBs symmetrical with 5ms ping for $30 a month. It's fiber all the way to my router.

All speeds measured and confirmed: http://www.speedtest.net/resul...

Just run the speed test against another node in another country or state. That would indicate if the ISP is slowing down explicit traffic or not. Even better to run a bandwidth test with a less common service than Speedtest. Like http://www.bredbandskollen.se/ (You can switch from Swedish to English on that page). Just be aware that the further away the server is the more likely you'd get bad figures since you have to share the channel with others.

Also try to locate the speed test servers on the same net as the service you like to access, that can also give you a good indication if it's throttling or just shitty network.

On YouTube you also can right-click on the video and select "Stats for nerds" to see the connection speed as well as dropped frames.

Tools like traceroute (in Windows tracert) and ping are your friends. hrping is an alternative to ping.

Also see more test variants here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

If you can - also look at if there are ping responses from the net using wireshark. Look for source quench messages. However those are usually presented to the streaming service and not to the client unless you do an upload of data.

At least your Internet connection is good. Right? I'm assuming so since you didn't mention that. I'm getting 1.27 Mbps and paying for 100 Mbps:

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290987419

Comcast is charging me for a connection 78 times faster than I'm getting. My 12 ms ping is at least nice so my older games still work well.

The ping is not really that bad compared to a dsl connection anyway. It's just not as consistent I'd like.
This was a speed test from a few hours ago on my grandfathered verizon unlimited LTE line I use for internet at home.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

> 128kb/s. No I am not joking. Do you know how much of the modern internet is really usable at those speeds? Not much

Oh please. I have 160 kbps at home, and other than sometimes having to reload a page a few times so content is cached, it isn't a problem. I can load this site(obviously), Facebook, LinkedIn, stackoverflow.com, etc. just fine. Proof:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4300387192

Living in Seattle sucks unless you can afford to live in one of the few buildings that Wave has fiber to.

Don't expect this to be fixed anytime soon. Ookla Speedtest has been exempt from data caps since 2014, and free speedtests are an official feature of T-Mobile data plans.

Confirmed: T-Mobile exempting speed-testing data from monthly data allotments

Speedtest servers are hosted by volunteers, and as can been seen from the installation instructions, Ookla Speedtest is fairly hard to exempt without exempting everything under /speedtest

Installing HTTP Legacy Fallback

Speedtest servers are located everywhere. T-Mobile could conceivably limit exemptions to only servers on the Speedtest.net server list, but the exemption list would require continual synchronization to keep it up to date.

Speedtest.net server list

The trouble is if the exemption list ever becomes out of date, then T-Mobile customers would complain bitterly about being charged for speedtests until the exemption list is updated, and presumably T-Mobile would prefer to avoid complaints about speedtests using data.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-re... 1.5Mbps/down .37Mbps/up for $30/mo

With Frontier spending their profits on fighting municipal/community broadband competition I've really got to find an alternative out here...

If I'm lying, how did I fabricate my speed test?

http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

I have VDSL2 in my area on BT which is part of the BT Infinity package, which I'm not using right now for obvious reasons, my Virgin Media connection however is FTTP part of Virgin Media's VIVID which does provide 200Mbps, here is my speed test to prove it:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

Yes, and in the UK, outside of the urban/suburban areas the mobile and wired internet are both atrocious.

Yet here I am in a small town of 11,000 people living in a county that is 1.5 times the size of London with only 1/20th of its population and I get:
70mbps down and 19mbps up for my landline:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...
And for 3G speedtests in the same area I get 20.7mbit down, 11.97mbit up:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

Yes, and in the UK, outside of the urban/suburban areas the mobile and wired internet are both atrocious.

Yet here I am in a small town of 11,000 people living in a county that is 1.5 times the size of London with only 1/20th of its population and I get:
70mbps down and 19mbps up for my landline:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...
And for 3G speedtests in the same area I get 20.7mbit down, 11.97mbit up:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

Wave G offers gigabit service to a select group of condos and apartments in Seattle. They [were] the fastest in Seattle according to Speedtest.com
http://www.speedtest.net/award...
Here's a list of the buildings and services. https://gowaveg.com/our-buildi...
Nothing for $29 though. Cheapest they offer [that I could find] was $60 for 100Mb and $80 for 1Gb
I suppose if you can afford rent in one of those places you probably don't care about the difference between $29 and $80.
Still, $80 is pretty cheap for 1Gb

How much _real_ broadband is available in New Hampshire? Where it is available is probably not too cheap, cost of living-wise (see first point).

You are acting like NH is a third world country, lets just get the facts- http://www.speedtest.net/award...

Most Free state people are moving to locations like Keene which has Xfinity with 114 Mbps download average and the same prices as elsewhere

There is also Low unemployment and plenty of jobs available. Portsmouth is one of the 30th top markets to find a job.

Here are more resources for plenty of jobs in NH - https://freestateproject.org/r...

10 Mbps is more than enough for video. Xfinity tv is built on a technology called HLS. Apple, Google, and Netflix also all use this. The top bitrate offered by xfinity.tv is exposed in the HLS manifest. Take an example HLS manifest for mr robot. Here we see:

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=205437,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=320x180 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-205437-repid-200000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=349312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=320x180 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-349312-repid-300000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=549312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=512x288 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-549312-repid-500000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=799312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=640x360 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-799312-repid-750000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1249312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=768x432 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-1249312-repid-1200000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1899312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=1024x576 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-1899312-repid-1850000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2899312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.4d4020",RESOLUTION=1280x720 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-2899312-repid-2850000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=4349312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.640028",RESOLUTION=1280x720 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-4349312-repid-4300000.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=5899312,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.640029",RESOLUTION=1920x1080 518139459916_1441222758515_1850000_4/format-hls-track-muxed-bandwidth-5899312-repid-5850000.m3u8

This indicates the top bandwidth is 5899312 bits per seconds (or ~6Mbps). That's a pretty standard 1080p streaming bitrate, and well within a 10 (or in your case 50) Mbps bandwidth including someone else browsing or gaming.

HLS is delivered over TCP, not UDP. If you are seeing "pixelated/blocks" showing up (called macroblocking) its because your playback device has selected a lower quality stream.* Now this could be for a huge variety of reasons:

1. 1. You are not actually getting 50Mbps from the modem. Certainly possible, and this could be caused by a whole host of issues like: bad signal to the CMTS, an overloaded network segment, a misconfiguration on the modem etc. A quick speedtest on a wired (not wifi!) device would show this. Comcast is actually pretty good about hitting advertised speeds. If your not getting them advertised speed contact them (there is an internet chat option which is pretty good).
2. 2. You are having issues with your wireless router speed. This is extremely common with older third party routers, they just can not handle the packets per second the bandwidth requires and die.
3. 3. Your PC can't keep up. This is also common. If the decoder drops frames because the CPU is to busy you will drop bitrates
4. 4. The video itself has transcoding or source errors. This is possible, but much less likely. If before "packaging" for HLS delivery the video has errors this can occur. If you are adventurous you can look in the network diag console to see what bitrate you are pulling (the information is exposed in the url).
5. 5. Their CDN can't keep up. Probably the least likely of all, but still possible

None of these have to do with needing 50Mbps. If yo

Thanks for the list.

"AFAICT speedtest measures the best case, it uses a nearby fast test server and it waits for the speed to stabilize to allow for TCP slow start." (slightly edited)

Yes, SpeedTest.net is not giving information that reflects the actual user experience.

"... the oversell model ... CAN deliver UP TO..."

At OSCON 2015 last week, I talked with several people about technology companies being wildly mis-managed and very poorly communicated.

There is apparently no "Gigabit" service. "Gigabit" only refers to the electrical connection speed. The real speed of actual data delivery is whatever the providers want it to be.

My experience is that speedtest.net exaggerates the actual speed of delivery. Numion is realistic.

My husband works in HR there, and people aren't leaving Amazon as much as they are leaving Seattle. Many of the new hires are shocked to find-out that fast Internet access is only available in a tiny number of buildings in the region.

Too many young men move here then flee after getting tired of not having faster than dial-up access.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Broadband in Seattle is in line with the rest of the country, thank you. And where is it in the city of Seattle that you can't get "faster than dial-up access" speeds?

You mention "CondoInternet" as though it is the only option for "fast" - as if 1 Gbps+ is the only definition of "fast." Not only are there two other providers (according to the FCC report above) offering 1 Gbps+ Internet in Seattle, there are several others offering reasonable Internet speeds: in Woodinville (25 miles outside Seattle and close to the boondocks) where I live, Comcast (cursed be their name) offers 100 Mbps at reasonable prices.

So long story short, "young men" (why young men?) are not leaving Seattle because they can't get "faster than dial-up access" Internet. Either you are making this up completely, or you were somehow trying to find a way to mention "CondoInternet," which I will now try to find a way to avoid.

2-10Mb/s download? You're kidding, right? Average Comcast customer is getting 44Mbps down (actual output). http://www.speedtest.net/isp/c...

Seems correct. In this case, the situation is entirely faked. The "definition of broadband" did not change.

The "definition" being discussed is only the electrical connection speed. The actual information delivery speed can be anything a huge, abusive company wants.

What matters is the delivery speed. Supposedly the speed of the connection I am testing is "25 Mbps". SpeedTest.net says the speed is more than "50 Mbps".

The actual information delivery speed measured by numion.com is:
Kilobits/second (Kilobytes/second)
Surfspeed inside United States: 239.24 (29.90)
Surfspeed average (worldwide): 198.64 (24.83)
Surfspeed outside United States: 187.24 (23.40)

A local city leader told me it costs "$400,000" to get elected. Any government that requires leaders to spend huge amounts of money to be elected isn't actually a democracy.

No, the main reason European countries have better Internet access is due to their small size and layout. Sweden is roughly the size of California. If the US was a country that small, it would be easy to get fiber to everywhere. First speed test result I found averaged just over the state puts California at 39MB/s down and 9MB/s up. And that's without nearly as much taxation to support the whole thing as EU countries too.

But the FCC has to set policies that cover the middle of nowhere USA as well. Why do you think Verizon already gave up on laying more FIOS fiber? Because they already got all the interesting urban areas. No one can cost justify fiber to the middle of the US. You could lose all of the continental Europe in that wasteland and not even notice it.

An easier solution would be to move speedtest to cogent, speedtest always rocks, no matter how slow the rest of the net is!

I use this one
http://www.speedtest.net/

Pretty reliable and has a good mobile app

http://www.measurementlab.net/...

Unfortunately, the number of ridiculous hoops you need to go through to let an unsigned Java applet run an arbitrary network I/O makes it much less useful.

They now have a Flash version as well, so it's easier. But the numbers appear really low, claiming that my network buffer limits download to 140Mbps, yet I have often downloaded actual files from the Internet at faster than that.

OTOH, all the Ookla-powered sites claim I get over 70% of my 1Gbit network card speed, which I also find hard to believe, despite having a 20Gbps connection to our ISP (with literally thousands of users, one of which is a server I maintain that downloads at over 2000Mbps 24/7 backing up a remote site).

You can download the speedtest widget, and load it on a webserver, and then use that to test your speed.

http://www.speedtest.net/mini....

If you have a server you can install it on, Speedtest Mini is great. It uses their same basic setup, but allows you to run it somewhere other than a standard "speedtest" server, in case you think those servers are being handled differently.

Speedtest.net used to be good at one stage. But when I tried them relatively recently, I found that they measure the speed once it gets going, and ignore the regular dropouts that may occur. Speedtest.net claimed about 1gigabit, but in reality it was a tenth or even a fiftieth of that.

I had more luck with the following:

http://speedof.me/ - HTML5 Internet speed test (no Flash or Java needed). It claims to be the "smartest and most accurate online bandwidth test".
http://testmy.net - Nice graph and intelligent picking of the size of the test file to download.

You can download the speedtest widget, and load it on a webserver, and then use that to test your speed.

http://www.speedtest.net/mini....

Dude - I live in a 105-year-old house, in a small town just outside Portland (OR), and I still do well even with a big front/back yard.

The trick? Easy:
1) the wifi router is upstairs, away from the chimney but with a clear shot downstairs (and to each bedroom).
2) It's an ASUS router (screw that cheapie one that the ISP gives you; disable that and hard-line to a decent wifi router with a good reputation made for gaming.)
3) Scan the frig out of your neighborhood, and pick a channel no one else is using.

Result? In spite of my laptop, the TV, Dish DVR, my wife's iPad, and two Android phones (albeit I keep wifi off on mine)... http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3771041924 (taken off my MacBook Pro just now.)

You know things are disingenuous when your ISP's are telling you to tighten your consumer belt so they can grow rich and fat while they give you the trickle...

My crappy DSL (Canada) is a mere 25 Megs and I'm still not really satisfied...

I really cant see why someone would be satisfied with 4 megs even if they do not know any better.

You must realise that the load pipeline is reducing the overall speed for everyone else further up simply because the latent load takes forever to move foreward, while artificially slowed down, and it further forces others to queu their data longer until full bandwidth is restored thus effectively slowing them down as well...

The faster you move everything the faster everything gets done!

These are simple tactics to gouge power users even more by makeing them beleive they are having a premium service over others.

The appropriate focus should be to implement fiber to every nodes. (Homes/Business etc)

The internet backbones are fiber, why not end point also?

My own bandwidth statistic:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

Now keep in mind this is over a standard 2 wire telephone network (DSL)

Do not be satisfied with the big corporations telling you 4 meg is too big...

Fight for bandwidth... You never really have enough, and it's good for everyone else in the long run...

Just for the heck of it, I tried speed test to see what I was actually getting. It was 5.8mbps down/1.24mbps up. Now that I come to think of it, even though my plan was purchased at 3mpbs, they doubled everybody for free recently.

So. Not really upset by my bandwidth and rate caps--they are easy to track and I'm generally 10-15% usage at the end of the month. I'm more upset by them modifying content (e.g., redirecting dns to their search and blocking some sites without saying why). I'm also just a bit annoyed by them not sending a bill; but I discovered that when my service was cut off all I had to do is call them. They used caller ID to pull up the account, asked me to key in a verification, and then took my payment without me having to talk to a human being. The Internet was back on as soon as I got off the phone. It was stupid and smart at the same time--they should have sent me a billing reminder, but they recovered in a very astute way. This reminds me, I should probably call them and check my account st... NO CARRIER.

You should probably give them a call and get your service upgraded. I actually ended up paying several dollars a month less when I 'upgraded' from the 75/35 plan to the 150/65 plan. Ran a speed test last night, got about 152/172

Your ping is pathetic :-)

They brain wash you well over there - http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

You're full of shit. CenturyLink DSL is better than that. Here is proof that I have more than 1 Mbps in Seattle:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...

I have nearly 1.5 Mbps. Seattle is not the technology backwater that people claim it is. They are wrong.

I seem too- at any time from 3pm to 3am, prime time, etc.

Here.. I just tested at http://www.speedtest.net/

29.3 Mbps down and 5.7 Mbps up. at 7:45pm on a Weeknight.

I seriously stopped testing after a half dozen times because it was always good (even for Netflix when I did those tests).

It's about $30 more than I think is fair but I can't complain about the performance. Uptime is also stellar-- probably 2 hours a month of unexpected downtime? Never for more than an hour so far.

I don't know what's up with all the anti-google fiber AC posts, but here is my google fiber speed test from when they installed it a couple months back.

AT&T says we can't get anything faster where I live. I only have DSL with AT&T. To get faster I'd have sell my soul to them for UVerse shit or get ComCast shit. There may be some other ripof...cable company where I can get overcharged.

Well, my wife has to use a program called OptiTime in Paris. We're in GA. When she is on there for work, ALL internet activity has to cease or she'll get a bunch of time-outs. So having only 2.0/0.2 (according to SppedTest) limits our use.

Streaming video has to have its quality lowered to show many times.

Although, hats off to NetFlix! You guys did a nice job.

Youtube is just atrocious.

See the thing is, bandwidth is like memory and other computer resources - developers and content makers assume all of us have top of the line hardware and bandwidth.

I can go on a rant here about how every damn piece of software and its updates has to install shit to 'C:' drive and I'm running out of space - no matter how much clean up I do.

And the fact that content providers seam to think we all have First World internet access. I'm in that States! I have shit access!

Given the log you posted, you are most definitely not being hit with a DoS attack. You are barely taking any traffic at all, with only a few hits / minute

[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 54.249.0.5:80 Saturday, October 12,2013 12:04:31
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:46:15
[DoS attack: ACK Scan] from source: 81.22.107.179:56 Saturday, October 12,2013 11:43:49

I mean look at that...there's 21 minutes worth of time passing in just 3 log entries, that's just plain old net noise.

It's more likely that your ISP is suffering backhaul congestion, or you are running a torrent client, or someone is DLing ultra pr0n at some insane rate or you left your wi-fi open and someone is hijacking it.

Go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and run a bandwidth check on your network.

Also please post some speed tests from these sites:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://www.speedtest.net/

Don't forget to run more than one test on each to get a better sample.

Iceland here...

100 Mb/s down 100 Mb/s up 240 GB cap, get over that, same cap, yep internet stops :P

HOWEVER they do not cap or count domestic traffic, so domestic proxies are a godsend!

This is during a high usage time: http://speedtest.net/result/2502948610.png though i do max 100 Mb/s on torrent all the time, up and down :P

I don't see why this is the case.

My ISP is small and can't afford to sell service at a loss. They serve only a limited area, but one where Comcast's service is no different than anywhere else. And yet this small company without large pockets can offer 200mbps symmetric service, though (*sob*) my building only has 100mbps installed (speed test result), for under $40/mo with no caps and no contracts. The only reason Comcast cannot offer similar service at a similar price is because they choose not to.

In rural areas, the situation might be different, but there's no excuse for gouging in areas where it is cheaper to serve just to keep things equal.

Yeah, I got that message a while back. They claim a 50% boost, but I haven't seen it. Even after resetting the modem and router, everything seems to download at about the same speed as before. I suspect BS (hardly atypical for Time Warner).

Since you don't list what kind of router you have, what kind of firewall rule processing it's doing, and if you're using wireless it's hard to tell who the weakest link is.

I never use a ISP integrated modem/router(/wireless gack), too many of them suck and lock out too many options. If a regular router you can stick your own server on the WAN port and run something like http://www.speedtest.net/mini.php , across the LAN you should see 100Mbps (or more if it's Gb the entire way). If it's slower then 100Mb on wired your routers performance sucks. Test wired first then add your WLAN in, I have seen many wireless setups that where showing a 150Mbps (good) connection not even perform 30Mbps transfers.

Even more advanced tests would be to try to run 2 speed tests locally at the same time. Most equipment will starve one stream (one 99Mbps/one 1Mbps), some equipment will give bad jitter and the total speed will be less then 75% of line speed, and latency will be high, and very rarely the equipment will have decent queuing and the two streams will be close to even at around 95% of total line speed and latency will be decent.

Actually getting 20Mbps+ from the random internet host is not very common. Testing a close, fast host inside the TW network is the best way to tell. This might help.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/speed-test.html/

You might be interested in Net Index. It's run by the guys who run Speedtest.net. You can look at various ISP rankings by regions.

Maybe it's just you. Here is my 174 ms ping to the same server you used. Oh, yeah - I'm just outside Washington DC.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2306174807.png

I don't understand why someone would assume their experience is everyone's experience. Is it some sort of delusion? Extreme self-centeredness?

So, I am on EPBfi.com and purchased their 50Mbps service. As of 30 seconds ago, I am getting 81.74Mb/s down and 55.36 Mb/s up with 6ms ping. See: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2216317275.png