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Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 16:59
by Chuft-Captain
I want to live in Japan!
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Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 17:21
by t00fri
Well...
My nominal line speed is pretty good (2 MByte/sec). But with many servers I only get 100 KByte/sec because they are saving their money....
shatters.net or the Motherlode(ibiblio) are examples of typical 100 KByte/sec download resources... Since ChrisL is paying the costs from his pocket money...no motivation to live in Japan
. The reasons are obvious.
Fridger
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 22:02
by abramson
t00fri wrote:2 MByte/sec
2 MByte or 2 Mbit /sec?
We only have 1Mbit/sec in Bariloche
(USD28/month
)...
Guillermo
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 22:45
by cartrite
I got a midrange service and my top download speed is about 580kbytes/sec(.gov servers) although most downloads are in the 300kbyte range. Apparently the best I can get from my ISP is 1 Mbyte/sec.
cartrite
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 22:58
by t00fri
abramson wrote:t00fri wrote:2 MByte/sec
2 MByte or 2 Mbit /sec?
We only have 1Mbit/sec in Bariloche
(USD28/month
)...
Guillermo
I mean 16Mbit/sec = 2 Mbyte/sec which is a popular standard now in Germany. But only for download. Uploading is MUCH slower.
Here is an actual speed test I did 1 minute ago:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Download-Geschwindigkeit: [++] : 14.589 kbit/s (1.824 kByte/s)
Upload-Geschwindigkeit: [++] :.........1.006 kbit/s (126 kByte/s)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fridger
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 23:35
by abramson
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 23:51
by t00fri
Your rates pretty well match the specifications. This is non-trivial for the servers that are very distant from you. Normally then one encounters high latencies which in turn needs big values for the RWIN buffer size etc.
Fridger
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 27.05.2009, 23:59
by abramson
Sure, Fridger, I agree. I'm just sad that my ISP does not offer a faster service. Sniff.
(I've got 4Mbit/sec at my job, not ADSL though, some other thing.)
G
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 28.05.2009, 00:10
by t00fri
abramson wrote:Sure, Fridger, I agree. I'm just sad that my ISP does not offer a faster service. Sniff.
(I've got 4Mbit/sec at my job, not ADSL though, some other thing.)
G
Of course....but as a little consolidation: I wrote above that for reasons of money saving numerous servers cut down their speed, whence I get not infrequently ONLY ~100kByte for download (despite a much faster line).
Fridger
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 28.05.2009, 09:08
by Chuft-Captain
t00fri wrote:Here is an actual speed test I did 1 minute ago:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Download-Geschwindigkeit: [++] : 14.589 kbit/s (1.824 kByte/s)
Upload-Geschwindigkeit: [++] :.........1.006 kbit/s (126 kByte/s)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I always find the european convention of "."'s instead of ","'s makes your speed seem somewhat modest (on first glance).
Re: Global Broadband Speeds by Country
Posted: 28.05.2009, 09:18
by t00fri
Chuft-Captain wrote:t00fri wrote:Here is an actual speed test I did 1 minute ago:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Download-Geschwindigkeit: [++] : 14.589 kbit/s (1.824 kByte/s)
Upload-Geschwindigkeit: [++] :.........1.006 kbit/s (126 kByte/s)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I always find the european convention of "."'s instead of ","'s makes your speed seem somewhat modest (on first glance).
Indeed, notably since the international
scientific notation is just opposite ("." <-> ","). Also in Europe!
Fridger