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>They require these measurements to be an average. I think this makes sense - it at least guarantees your speeds within the service provider's network.

It is useful that the remote end is the ISP exchange with the other ISPs.

It is way less useful to talk about averages. The averages could be great and it won't mean much when all of a sudden it can be slow, or not work at all.

The important information (and missing there) is what the guaranteed speed is, and what the guaranteed response times are for incidents.

e.g.: Outside the US, many countries have mandated minimums for guaranteed bandwidth, set as a percent of the advertised speeds. Similarly, they enforce certain maximum response times for incidents. There's of course different minimums for residential vs business, and ISPs will offer better tiers with better guaranteed bandwidth.

The FCC has the power to fix the insanity that is US broadband, but appears to be not motivated to.