If you already have a broadband connection, how do you measure your connection speed?
A recent FCC survey found that 80 percent of broadband users in the United States don’t know the speed of their broadband connection. Many people don’t know what speed they are paying for, or what they are getting compared to what the broadband provider is claiming to offer.
New York State Broadband Speed Test
Alternative Broadband Speed Test
Broadband Speed and Bandwidth
Broadband Speed will continue being an important factor – in differentiating competing broadband provider offerings, and for keeping up with increasing bandwidth appetites of emerging applications. Bandwidth is a precious and limited commodity, of which the FCC and Congress are grappling with. The Obama administration outlined a strategy to make 500 MHz of spectrum available for wireless broadband. The FCC responded with an initial proposal to free 115 MHz.
