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Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate
stox writes "For the 64 percent of Americans whose internet service provider imposes a broadband cap, and for those lucky enough to have a meter, I have some bad news. The president of the firm who audits many of the country's broadband meters says that he can't certify the measurements produced by five out of seven of his clients' meters because they don't count your bits correctly
DD-WRT has a meter I find it to be very accurate. I guess it could be used as evidence if things do not match.
Depends on your ISP, I'd wager. You might get reasonable people in the billing department you can argue with.
If not, good luck with that. It'd be nice if everyone and their mother had a non-shit router, the ability to understand metrics, and the willingness to go to small claims court, but, as a wise woman once said:
Ain't nobody got time fo' dat.
Perhaps we need a weights and measures type certification for ISPs?
In the US it's per County, so that will be interesting!
no other explanation is necessary. For the old folks here who used to have a landline phone service in the old days, do you remember all those mysterious little "charges" they tacked on your bill? Like $1.05 "User Service fee" and $0.87 "DCF Maintenance fee" or some crap like that? Well even the federal gov't realized they were just plain thieves and sued them, which they settled for a few dozen million dollars. And went right back to doing it again.
Also there was the dial-up modem scam the telcos used to pull... Dvorak's summary