The blog post (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-radar-internet-quali...) includes a lot more details on the Internet Quality and Connection Quality metrics shown on the new Radar page.
Cloudflare Radar now shows worldwide Internet Quality
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
it could be related to the fact that there's more people leaving in cities, not that many cities, and those cities have data centers close-by. bigger concentration of population near data centers should go a long way.
Yeah, that stat is based on performance tested by speed.cloudflare.com, so it's actually a mix of overall capability and local speed to Cloudflare data centers. It may also be skewed by relative unpopularity of Cloudflare's speed test site compared to more well known alternatives.
The continent graphs are actually based on measurements towards a set of providers, only one of which is Cloudflare. This is mentioned in the blog post.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
A couple of people I know that live there have complained about it. Also I've read many comments from digital nomads over the years. Of course this is just anecdotal.
Ah understood. Perhaps bad customer service. In general we have amazing fiber penetration via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Fast_Broadband which is a government initiative. Much better than the NBN in Australia for example (where I'm from originally) and cheaper too. My gigabit connection is also just under $50USD a month
Could also be that this stuff is relatively new?
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#14I find it surprising that Oceania consistently has the highest bandwidth and lowest latency. Why would that be?
Small sample size? Its pretty noisy data.
The entirety of Oceania has roughly the population of California.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah understood. Perhaps bad customer service. In general we have amazing fiber penetration via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Fast_Broadband which is a government initiative. Much better than the NBN in Australia for example (where I'm from originally) and cheaper too. My gigabit connection is also just under $50USD a month
Could also be that this stuff is relatively new?
To my knowledge most of the fiber roll-out was completed in Nov 2019 (https://www.crowninfrastructure.govt.nz/fibre/ufb-programme/) and they have already started upgrading network speeds to 6 gigabit and beyond. That hasn't had as much availability yet although improving in large cities. It's also about $150 USD so less people opt for it.
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#16How is New Zealand in the top 10 of download speed? I thought internet there was awful?
It's a misunderstanding.
Oceania suffers from peering/latency issues related to being very far from other continents (+ monopolies). Anything local is fine.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that stat is based on performance tested by speed.cloudflare.com, so it's actually a mix of overall capability and local speed to Cloudflare data centers. It may also be skewed by relative unpopularity of Cloudflare's speed test site compared to more well known alternatives.
The continent graphs are actually based on measurements towards a set of providers, only one of which is Cloudflare. This is mentioned in the blog post.
Yeah, the IQI measurements are aggregated, but much lower than the continent map, which is only to Cloudflare. So the high bandwidth figure noted by parent is only for Cloudflare.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The continent graphs are actually based on measurements towards a set of providers, only one of which is Cloudflare. This is mentioned in the blog post.
Yeah, the IQI measurements are aggregated, but much lower than the continent map, which is only to Cloudflare. So the high bandwidth figure noted by parent is only for Cloudflare.
The map shows numbers from speed tests, which is only to Cloudflare, yes. But IQI's bandwidth numbers are lower because it displays average utilization (i.e. shorter requests, like web browsing, mostly capped by latency) while the map displays connection capacity.
I believe the parent was referring to the lines for Oceania being surprisingly good considering we usually think of it as being far away from content (which is not true when a large chunk of it can be served from local datacenters).