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A Presentation given at the FCC Broadband Performance Measurement Workshop 2010-07-07. You can alternatively download a PDF Here.

The void of publicly available information regarding the nature and actual performance of customers' broadband connections has begun to disappear. Under NFSNET, which served as the precursor backbone to the commercial Internet, network performance information was systematically collected and made publicly available. In fact, between 1988 and 1995, many of the Internet's fundamental performance and traffic statistics were freely available for anyone who wanted to access them.