Germany to Require ISPs to Give Discounts for Slower-than-Promised Internet Speeds

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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New regulation in Germany aims to help consumers by requiring ISPs give discounts for slower-than-promised internet speeds. Users can access an app that will perform 10 tests repeated on two different days for a total of 20 tests to determine actual download/upload speeds and that there are no anomalies skewing the results. The app will be available to both desktop and mobile device users, but the discounts will only be available to broadband connections. The mobile results are just so consumers can report dead zones to their providers.



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[Brian_B]

I'm sure this won't be gamed with some QOS settings

 

[LeRoy_Blanchard]

This thing will be heavily abused. Unless they have some way to prove that the connection isn't simultaneously downloading something while the tests are running. and as I was typing that out I thought of 3 more ways to skew the rated connection speed to be lower than what it really is.

So yea, this will be abused heavily by people with any kind of knowledge on how throughput works. lol

 

[Elf_Boy]

We need something like this in the US.