Internet speed survey

[KRSESQ]

Played around with some of the global servers this morning. Down and up times were consistent @ 35/5 across the US. So I tried some other targets:

London 17/3
Berlin 14/3.3
Paris 14/3.5
Rome 9/3
Nicosia 12/2.6
Moscow 9/2.4
Tokyo 3.6/2.4
Beijing Normal University - no connection.

The Tokyo connection was hosted by World's Fastest Indian. But they didn't indicate if they mean red indian or red-dot Indian.

[xortam]

"The World's Fastest Indian"

It's a bike ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_(motorcycle)

Sir Anthony Hopkins starred in that titled film ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian .

[KRSESQ]

Of course. Duh!

Forgot about the scooters.

[UtwigMU]

Generally a good connection test is downloading large popular file from torrent since it also taxes your router and network equipment. You should be able to sustain your advertised speed downloading from torrent.

Otherwise in past few weeks I had several scenarios where I needed to download large evaluation software or demo virtual machines (5GB+) from Microsoft to test some scenario and 100 vs 10Mb download makes a difference. For moderate surfing and downloading 4/1 DSL is enough and if i didn't have option of significantly faster optics at same price as DSL I wouldn't go for it.

The consolidation of providers for phone, TV and internet results in savings of 18 EUR/month or 192 annually, so this upgrade is actually cheaper considering the most cost effective package deal that meets other (phone/TV) needs.



The key in good connections at low prices is competition: here EU/state forced Telecom and lately optical network companies to unbundle first copper and now fiber. Thus Telecom and other providers are forced to sell copper lines and optics to other providers at same price and you can get any ISP regardless of which company built optics or copper to your place.

Also they have forced mobile and fixed line phone companies to enable number transfers. So if you change your provider you get to keep your number.

[Helevitia]