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What's funniest is that if you look closely at the Speedtest.Net image, Google only gets a 3 1/2 star rating. No one is ever happy I guess.
That rating is for Google as an ISP. They provide free WiFi to the city of Mountain View which isn't always fast depending on where you are. That probably accounts for the low rating.
p.s. i pay 17usb per month
Now, 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…
that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?
As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/
In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.
Is the average US home internet connection really 10Mbps?? I find that hard to believe.
That doesn't even make sense. For you to get to those sorts of speeds, you need jumbo frame support. While you can get that taken care of on a LAN/WAN or for Internet2, you can't magically make the Internet support it just by sprinkling Google fairy dust everywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame
On my local lan I am able to get to about 40 MB/sec consistently over a gigabit link, and most of that is limited by the fact that I am reading from my local disk when doing so. Also, the test probably isn't designed for internet connections that fast which could also lead to funky results.
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that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?
He must be from Northern Europe. Scandinavian countries have the best deals with internet connections. As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/ In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.
http://www.broadband-tv-phone.com/virgin-media-cable-broadba...
100MB is also available in Ireland, through UPC:
http://www.upc.ie/broadband/hundred/ (monthly cost here is roughly double the UK price. Typical! Despite the recession, it's still rip-off republic.)
SpeedTest's SF server is hosted by MonkeyBrains.net. A quick traceroute shows their servers are just one step away from Cogent's SF backbone. I suspect whoever ran this test has fewer than four steps between them and the testing server, and the slowest link between them is the gigabit ethernet port to their desk.
Is 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?
I value customer service over raw speed, so I have Speakeasy DSL. It's not the fastest, but it is always up.