This discussion is so old that it can be viewed as an evolution of a discussion topic.
First, there came the bytes versus bits discussion, why is the download never more than 120, when it should be 1024? Then the 1 Mbps was too slow anyway, as there was 100 Mbps between the home computers. The ISPs have educated the users ever since, and the defence speeches have include all the OSI layers.
In today’s internet, the education is not necessary, as there are no explanations. When ordering a connection at the speed of light through a fiber optic cable and getting the normal cable modem, there is something wrong. There is no fiber all the way to your home, only to the nearest connection point. While that is acceptable, where is the 50 Mbps speed through this cable, or 24 Mbps through the ADSL line? 54 Mbps through WLAN and 7 Mbps through my mobile Internet. They have never, ever been that fast. They will never be that fast, it is impossible. The technology cannot deliver what the marketing is promising. We can take the ADSL-modem to the lab and freeze it to absolute zero, but we cannot download a file 24 Megabits per second. We can launch the WLAN-modem to space, but we cannot download a file through the Wi-Fi 54 Megabits per second.
Since the government has entered the speed promising market, the game has changed. When the government is promising a certain speed for everyone by certain date, it does so in a law. Since there is now a law, not a marketing copy, there is a real need to actually deliver that speed.
Only now are we beginning to see some ad-free, no-nonsense services to find out what your speed is. Choose what you were promised, now click here to see what are you getting web pages. Click and go solutions. Now we know that what is advertised is not what is delivered. All reasons aside, what are we going to do about it?
