Well, besides being interesting ISP comparison *may* not be as objective and informative as we'd like to. In addition, what technique do you propose for such comparison? Just asking customers aren't enough, IMHO. And you can't count *every* ISP, even in the US...
As for me, it is interesting two technoques used simultaneously: 1) Journal asks ISP to make dialup-IP and 64K account for the testing; and asks where they coud try T1 connection. 2) Journal bue (anonimously) dialup account from the same ISP's. Then, every day in 1 months (or some 5 different days during this months) they measure CPS for - WWW to some interesting pages, FTP from some servers, quality of real-audio connections, etc... Then (since 1 months) it will be very interestind data. But I am afrayd we'll see quite another picture - "we prefere XXX because they sell dialup-kit with MS Exploper, and do not recommend YYY because in our ONLY ftp test from www.cisco.com CPS was 5% less than in our 10 ftp tests via XXX_, or something simular.
My 2c,
Edgar
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