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Someone should write a speed test website that looks to read from a set of common cloud services and then compares the speeds and records this based on ISP and location.

This shouldn't be hard to setup and you'll get a ton of page views probably for ever.

One can then see degradations over time and based on ISP. Would be even nicer to have some controls in there too so you can see if well known cloud services are slower than non-cloud services.

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Netflix already do this, http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/

Things are not looking good in my area... http://imgur.com/pxlpxO9

Unfortunately their US data only goes to December. Looks like Verizon dipped prior to the net neutrality ruling. http://imgur.com/xOfjRf0

Did you check out the other countries. We get the shaft on speeds for sure.

I'm a little confused by the average speed reported in their speed index. Not sure about the others, but I know Comcast and AT&T both offer several speed tiers. Is their average speed reported here affected by the percentage of customers who purchase the lowest tier?

Yes, which is why the data is effectively impossible to interpret. Only the FCC reports speed as a percentage of the plan. http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america

This doesn't at all answer your question, but it's close. http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

M-Lab provides a suite of tools to test a lot of net neutrality related stuff: http://www.measurementlab.net/

You inspired me to do exactly that - coded within 6 hours - http://netneutralitytest.com/

...and some rather heady bandwidth bills.

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