These are the stats for the NetIn.com network. They are published for the world to see, as a way to validate our claims of stability and performance. We also feel this is a good way for potential customers to benchmark, and evaluate an ISP on real information. We hope other ISP's will also publish their stats so customers can make an informed choice for their ISP.
One of the resources that customers buy from an ISP is the ability to move data (usually to and from the Internet). The total amount of data the ISP can move in a unit of time across the ISP's equipment is called bandwidth. ISP's also buy and sell bandwidth to other ISPs. Bandwidth is expensive and to maximize profit, ISP's try to maximumize bandwidth utilization. However, this is at the expense of response time to users - ie: performance. Roughly speaking, higher bandwidth utilization means slower response time for the user.
The good news it that you can see when a network resource is over utilized. As an ISP overloads their resources, there will be an increase in the number of packets dropped due to lack of resources (like buffers, or bandwidth). If an ISP is constantly dropping packets, they have seriously overloaded some piece (or pieces?) of their network. Again, this causes severe performance problems.
There are many factors that are used to choose an ISP. And ISPs tend to hype big numbers that aren't important. If you are interested in dependability and performance, the number of dropped packets is one of the MOST IMPORTANT statistics to know when evaluating an ISP.