Nice report with numbers for my provider matching what I've seen. However, there is no mention of bandwidth caps, internet downtime, or availability of competing services. These three factors should be reported on as well.
Strangely enough, in the FCC's wireless report, they could not come to a conclusion about the state of competition in the wireless industry. I would imagine that coming to a conclusion about wireline broadband would be equally (if not more) difficult for them.
Really? I run nagios at home, and right now it says year-to-date I've had 28m 40s of downtime, for 99.988% uptime of my cable internet service (for the host monitoring my first-hop router). This is in Chelsea, Manhattan, with their "wideband" level of service.
We're working to eventually get a much finer grain survey of performance (e.g. a neighborhood), by piggy backing on network-intensive applications (currently BitTorrent). In addition to throughput, we're looking at things such as packet loss, latency (the last-mile in particular), time-of-day effects, as well as using traceroutes for underlying forward-path analysis.
My point is, if anyone has any ideas for other applications (something like Netflix would be great) to leverage, metrics to include, or advice, I'd be happy to hear them. :)