Comment Re:Charter? (Score 1) 228
Or he's just using the assumed units, like we always do in these discussions.
That's certainly possible, just like it's possible he tolerates 700 kilobits/second on what he thinks is 21 megabits per second and hasn't pursued it as some acute problem with his service, or just gone elsewhere.
However, you did seem to avoid the question of why the company should be able to sell a connection that they seem to never be able to come close to meeting.
TFA says they are able to come close for a random sampling of users, for what they claim to be a maximum speed for some class of connection. When I see someone post about "21 meg or some shit" and claim to be tolerating 700 kilobits/second in the early evening, I assume they're mistaken or haven't behaved rationally in resolving it.