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MIT Research Asks.. Just how Fast is US Broadband
MIT Research Asks, Just How Fast Is U.S. Broadband?
The Journal
<http://thejournal.com/Articles/2010/07/27/
MIT-Research-Asks-Just-How-Fast-Is-
U.S.-Broadband.aspx?Page=2>
By Dian Schaffhauser
07/27/10
In the race for Internet speed,
the United States could definitely be
called a slacker. According to data
from the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development, in
the area of average advertised
broadband download speed this
country falls somewhere between those
little heralded hotbeds of high tech,
Italy and Greece. And whereas the
United States average is about 15
megabits per second, Korea offers 53
Mbps, France delivers 55 Mbps, and
Japan tops out the list with a
whopping 108 Mbps.
Even then, however, the advertised
15 Mbps for the United States seems
dazzling compared to actual user
experience. These words are being
written on a system tapped into
"premium" AT&T DSL that currently is
delivering a download speed of about
5 Mbps. So few experts were
probably surprised when the Federal
Communications Commission released
its National Broadband Plan, in which
it reported that "the actual
download speed experienced on broadband
connections in American households is
approximately 40-50% of the advertised
'up to' speed to which they subscribe."
However, a new study by Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
researchers calls that finding into
question. Their point: that the
common methods for measuring Internet
data rates underestimate the
speed of the "access network"--that
part of the Internet that Internet
service providers control. Those
measurements are affected, the
researchers wrote, by several
variables, including the number of
devices accessing a home wireless
network, the internal settings of a
home computer, and the location of
the test servers sending the
computer data.
The research came out of the MIT
Internet Traffic Analysis Study
(MITAS), a new project at the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence laboratory (CSAIL).
The project is getting input and
financial support from a number of
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
serving customers both in the United
States and abroad. The researchers
expect to publish papers, develop a
traffic data repository, and hold
workshops and other outreach to help
others understand broadband
traffic growth for such issues as
traffic management, network
investment, and architecture.
The researchers have submitted
their first report to both the FCC and
the Federal Trade Commission and will
present a version of it at the
Telecommunications, Policy, and
Research Conference at George Mason
University School of Law in
Arlington, VA, in October.
"If you are doing measurements, and
you want to look at data to support
whatever your policy position is,
these are the things that you need to
be careful of," said Steve Bauer, the
technical lead on MITAS. "For me,
the point of the paper is to improve
the understanding of the data
that's informing those processes."
<snip>
The FCC hasn't yet uttered its last
word regarding average broadband
currently being delivered in the
United States. The federal agency is
currently working on a new study to
measure broadband speeds in 10,000
homes, using dedicated hardware that
bypasses problems such as TCP
settings or the limited capacity of
home wireless networks. The agency's
hope, according to a spokesman, is
to obtain better data by which to
formulate policy and plans.
The full MIT report can be downloaded as a PDF here.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who
covers technology and business.
Send your higher education technology
news to her at
dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PDF report here
<http://mitas.csail.mit.edu/papers/
Bauer_Clark_Lehr_Broadband_Speed_Measurements.pdf>
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