3Mbps is 0.20x (of 15Mbps) what he is paying for.

Bits != Bytes.

Mbps == Megabits/sec

MBps == Megabytes/sec

>I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky?

He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.

Corroborated by the png he linked.

dangrossman said Mb/s samstave mistakenly read that as MB/s

Yeah, I thought he was referring to his whole connection...

And while his link is 15/5 -- I still thin thats slow for FiOS -- but I had misread his comment..... I may have also been drinking.