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Tennessee sues FCC: Giving cities free rein to provide their own broadband is 'unlawful'

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"And in case anyone is wondering, when EPB sells you a 1Gbps package, you get it. I speed test regularly and never saw either up nor down dip below 995Mbps."

I find that just a bit hard to believe given that raw Ethernet normally has ~20% overhead due to 8b/10 coding. Meaning the fastest you should be getting from Speedtest on a typical setup (say a Gigabit Ethernet connection) should be 800Mbit/sec, not factoring in slow points between you and the Speedtest server. Unless you're saying you're testing from something with a faster link like a 10Gibt connection.

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