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CenterFuse Broadband Feasibility Report Latency is why cellular wireless connections seem slow. Cellular latencies vary widely depending upon the exact generation of equipment at any given cell site. But 4G latency can be as high as 100 ms. In the same FCC test that produced the latencies shown above, satellite broadband was almost off the chart with average latencies of 650 ms. A lot of complaints about Internet performance are actually due to latency issues. It's something that's hard to diagnose since latency issues can appear and reappear as Internet traffic between two points uses different routing. But the one thing that is clear is that the lower the latency the better. Consolidated Consolidated delivers broadband to most of the community using DSL and we saw 9 speed tests from Consolidated customers. We also saw three speed tests from Consolidated fiber customers. Consolidated DSL Download Speeds 0— 5 Mbps 4 6— 10 Mbps 1 11 —20 Mbps 3 20—30 Mbps 1 These Download speeds are typical for DSL. All of the upload speeds on Consolidated DSL were less than 5 Mbps, with 78% at 1 Mbps or less. Consolidated's latency for DSL customers was 24 milliseconds, which is good for DSL technology. The fiber customers are buying symmetrical speed products that ranged from 15 Mbps to 200 Mbps. The average latency on fiber was 11 milliseconds. Other Speed Tests We say a speed test from Kittitas Broadband with a symmetrical 7 Mbps on the speed test, but a high latency of 49 milliseconds. We got two speed tests for Central Connect, which rides city fiber. There were for symmetrical bandwidth products and that had an average latency of 15 milliseconds. We also saw one speed test from a subscriber on City Fiber. The customer subscribed to the gigabit product and the speed test showed a speed of 998 Mbps, with an upload speed over 900 Mbps. D. Broadband GAP Analysis A discussion about the need for broadband would not be complete without considering broadband gaps. This is term that's come into vogue in the past several years that describes situation where a community has some aspect of broadband that is not as good as the ideal. The following discussion will look at the most commonly described broadband gaps: Page 32