[HIGHLIGHT] FCC seeking broadband volunteers

"Together, the FCC and Samknows are setting out to provide US consumers with reliable and accurate statistics of their broadband connections. If you are interested in using one of our units to measure your home broadband connection, then please sign up below. You will get to play a part in changing the face of the American broadband industry and you also get to measure your broadband performance accurately for the first time."

Sign up at http://www.testmyisp.com/

This was originally posted in our external articles forum but we felt it's an important enough of an ongoing effort to not fall off the front page. Broadband standards in the US are falling behind and the US is facing emerging issues from every direction from data caps, (soon to be) monitoring and lack of consistency between advertised/reported speeds and what is actually accessible by the end user. These days the FCC is beleaguered from all sides but you can do your part to help.