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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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And the problem with averages is ... that they are averages!
Several years ago I got fed up with the ATM at my local bank being out of order when I visited it. I went into the bank and asked to see the manager, his response to my complaint was that the average availability of their ATMs was 98%. My reply to this was that although an ATM may be available at 3am it is no good to me if it is unavailable at 3pm!
And by the same reasoning if I wish to use the full capacity of my broadband service at 5pm and it is only delivering download speeds of 2Mb/s and e.g. can't deliver a YouTube video without stalling, something which my neighbour next door can achieve on BT "up to 8Mb", I don't wish to be told that I can do it at 5am when magically my broadband will deliver 10Mb/s and YouTube streams faultlessly!!!!!!!