This reminds me of the good old days, the 90s, when I was a teenager and finally upgraded to a ~50KB/s cable modem from my puny 33600 baud modem. That was a game changer, I even ran an FTP server for a while =) It's been getting faster ever since then, but I never again had that feeling of "OMG it's so fast let's download something for the hell of it".
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
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#12I think the fastest connection I ever had was back in the day when I worked at CERN. They host(ed?) a European internet hub, so rates were pretty damn quick.
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#13Wow, I did not realize my internet connection at work is actally that good... I ran speed test before some month ago and it was in the same range. (see http://speedtest.net/result/1147935298.png). Back then I though "not bad". But that a post about something like that would make it the homepage of HN...
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#14Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second. That's partly because most people are happy with such speeds (or at least the speed/price ratio). At home I have a subscription with 120MBit/s downstream. Speed tests usually give 130MBit/s during daytime and 140MBit/s at night. Given that, 500MBit/s downstream is the very m…
Yeah. I was expecting multi-deca-gigabits at the very least.
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#15Am I the only one who thought they meant latency? I like my speeds well enough, but I could use some reduced latency. I guess there isn't much one can do about this, though.
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#16Is the average US home internet connection really 10Mbps?? I find that hard to believe.
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#17I think the fastest connection I ever had was back in the day when I worked at CERN. They host(ed?) a European internet hub, so rates were pretty damn quick.
What were the rates like, if you can recall?
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#18Is the average US home internet connection really 10Mbps?? I find that hard to believe.
Same. What about all those people still on 1.5-6mbit DSL, or... shudder dialup?
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#19Is the average US home internet connection really 10Mbps?? I find that hard to believe.
It's likely the average of people in the US who have run the speed test.
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#20I think the fastest connection I ever had was back in the day when I worked at CERN. They host(ed?) a European internet hub, so rates were pretty damn quick.
What were the rates like, if you can recall?
To be honest I can't remember. This was 10 - 12 years ago though so what was absurd then is probably pretty standard now. It was a heck of a lot quicker than the T1 line we had in the Physics dept back in London :)