[OT] got a new isp

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

After 28 months with Mexican Prodigy switched to Mexican AT&T.

It was the worst service ever: almost every day at least one hangup, 
frequent DSN lookup hangs, frequent nothing-at-alls.

But... I should not complain because I paid for only 12 months...

which is a symbol of the organization.

So I have a question: does anybody know of a way to compare ISP 
performances?

I looked into this in the past and even installed it: it is PasTmon, the 
passive network monitor. I installed it from source, uses Postgresql as 
database, R as the statistical package, you need a network intercept 
library for it. Very complete package.

Except... you get deluged in data. So in order to compare ISP's you 
would need a significant statistical effort, with some sort of 
benchmarks to go with.

So, do I only wonder about comparing ISP's in Mexico, or does this have 
more universal validity?

Hugo.