Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service

jfruhlinger writes "Slashdot previously covered the National Broadband Map, designed by the US Federal government to illustrate where the 'digital divide' between those with access to high-speed Internet and those who go without. But, as blogger Ryan Faas points out, you can use it for a much more individualistic purpose: to find your fastest local wired or wireless ISP. Just plug in your name and address and you'll soon see what your options are."

Advertised speeds, not useful

[Anonymous Coward]

Checked my location, advertised speed and reality are not the same.

Thanks but try again.

Re:Pure Bullshit

[Omega Hacker]

It amazes me that they think this was an effective use of over $250 million dollars. If they had simply set up a proper crowd-sourcing system including actual speed tests plus enough marketing to get people to help fill it in, we would have ended up with actually useful data. Hell, they could have given a $3-5 reward to every single residential end-point in the entire US for providing info and still come in radically under that budget. And honestly, how much time does it take to go to comcast.com or twtelecom.com and look at their plans for a given region to at least get some basic sanity checks on this data??