[IP] Re: Query The FCC has released their High-Speed Internet Status report

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Tony Lauck [tlauck@madriver.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:39 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] The FCC has released their High-Speed Internet Status report

Does anyone have statistics for the actual performance of broadband
service in Japan or other Asian countries?  I don't mean marketing
numbers or theoretical peak access link speed, I mean sustained
throughput, e.g. when moving a 300 megabyte file.

I mention this, because I happen to manage a site that sells downloads
of CD quality audio that keeps records of the file transfer performance
experienced by the customers. (The server is located in downtown
Chicago.) I have never seen high download rates from Asia. The highest
rates come from the U.S. and from Europe. (I presume that most of the
customers are using a residential broadband service.)

My data is purely anecdotal, but if Asian broadband service is really as
good and ubiquitous as some claim I would expect to have seen higher
performance by now.  Or is the problem with submarine cable bandwidth?

Tony Lauck
www.aglauck.com

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