[Urmas]

Just for fun: let's take a reasonably snappy connection (I am using a modest 1 Gb connection here as an example), and do a little speedtest world tour.

These results are by no means canonical – Internet weather does change from hour to hour. However: it might not be a total waste of time to ponder... um... like, "should I get this fancy new 1 Gb [home] connection, or would 200 Mb be enough? Or should I save the money and make do with the basic 40 Mb connection? Would I even notice the difference most of the time?"

Seat belts fastened? Takeoff:

The friendly neighbourhood server (< 10 km away)


Within the country:




The neighbouring countries:












Some European servers:








Some North American servers:














China, Hong Kong & the Philippines:









Urmas -- 2 fast 4 you

[bootneck02]

Blimey Urmas I wish I could get speeds like that. We moved to here and connected to BT and all we could get was 0.3Mb/s so I now have wireless internet and that varies betewn 3Mb/s to 10Mb/s. seems to be affected by the weather.

[Abarbarian]

Urmas the fast Finn

[EvanDavis]

Originally Posted by Abarbarian

Urmas the fast Finn

its gonna be fast, he's doing it through his Uni servers

[Urmas]

True dat... never mind the fact that I'm WAAAAAY past the uni age -- the uni student age, that is.

The point here -- if there is a point -- is that great speeds are relative (and to some extent, random -- depending on the global internet weather.)

[Abarbarian]

[QUOTE=Urmas;14107517

The point here -- if there is a point -- [/QUOTE]

Yums just showing off

(and to some extent, random -- .)

Yup I randomly live in the UK

depending on the global internet weather.

Weather is always lousy here