[armored_mammal]

Seems oddly low. I know the US is notorious for low speeds, but 3.35 Mbps for Google fiber? Does their measurement actually measure what I intuitively think measures?

I've used two different ISPs in recent years and both sustained 10+ Mbps over long periods of time with their mid range tiers, and had basic tiers offering 3 - 5 Mbps which I believe performed as rated.

While I know that most of the country is likely on slow Internet, I have a really hard time seeing how the numbers end up lower than ~5 Mbps avg overall unless the whole situation is way worse than I ever suspected and that large portions of the sample were either mobile users or rural.

[trotsky]

netflix content caps out at ~6mbps for HD, and for streams or equipment that doesn't support HD (not uncommon) that number is ~1.5mbps

[driverdan]

I was wondering this as well. Why would ISPs stream less than Netflix's max bitrate? Is it because of congestion? Throttling?