Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service

jfruhlinger writes "Slashdot previously covered the National Broadband Map, designed by the US Federal government to illustrate where the 'digital divide' between those with access to high-speed Internet and those who go without. But, as blogger Ryan Faas points out, you can use it for a much more individualistic purpose: to find your fastest local wired or wireless ISP. Just plug in your name and address and you'll soon see what your options are."

Comments

YRO, RLY?

[arielCo]

Why is this exactly in Your Rights Online? Are /.ers so afraid of entering their ZIP code anywhere?

Pure Bullshit

[phantomcircuit]

That site says comcast offers 1 gbps service to my house.

Re:Obligatority

[hairyfeet]

Sadly this thing isn't even worth joking about, it is a 200 million dollar lie that is so full of shit its eyes are brown. Plugged in my mom's address (I've been fighting for a decade to get something better than dialup for her) and it said I had FOUR count them four choices, two of which don't even operate in this area, one which told us point blank if you are even a single block out of the city limits to piss off, and the fourth refuses to run a single inch unless you give them 300% of the costs of the line upfront to ensure their incredible ass raping profits. Oh and they also have a WISP listed that we actually tried and is lucky if it works four hours a night and have worse TOS than Hughesnet.

So yeah, if you are using this thing for anything more than a laugh you are just wasting your time the way the government wasted your money on this fairy tale. So far I've plugged in a dozen addresses and not a single one was close to reality and both the speeds and carriers available were complete bullshit.