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Post Your Connection Speed Part Two
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On a good day in Phuket
After many bad days at 2 - 5% of the advertised speed, this morning sees me getting approaching half of what I the Communications Authority of Thailand say I can get. I guess it is not strictly speaking false advertising to state up to 7.2 MB/sec if they manage to deliver 50% on the odd occasion. But it is not the whole truth.
Landline or mobile based, 1-2 MB/sec is a good for Phuket.... this is exceptional
After many bad days at 2 - 5% of the advertised speed, this morning sees me getting approaching half of what I the Communications Authority of Thailand say I can get. I guess it is not strictly speaking false advertising to state up to 7.2 MB/sec if they manage to deliver 50% on the odd occasion. But it is not the whole truth.
Landline or mobile based, 1-2 MB/sec is a good for Phuket.... this is exceptional
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Just a random speed test I did a few minutes ago after reconfiguring my home router.
Wifi connection speed to my router over "Wireless N" is 144Mbps. So this is pretty much the fastest I can get at home.
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And work (much slower but more responsive than at home):
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Wifi connection speed to my router over "Wireless N" is 144Mbps. So this is pretty much the fastest I can get at home.
And work (much slower but more responsive than at home):
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After 10 minutes or more, this is as far as the test got this morning. The joy of living in a developing country on an island that elected only members of the opposition in the last general election.
I gave up trying to do anything on line last night.... looks like I might as well write today off as well.
I gave up trying to do anything on line last night.... looks like I might as well write today off as well.
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I live in Ireland, and in 2013, I envy greatly this god like speed. I have 500kbps and that is the fastest in my county...
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What?!
Just upgraded ours, and think 123Mb/s is pretty good...
Yeah, it's a massive upgrade from what I was getting. HD movies from iTunes download while I make a coffee. It's insane.
I live in Hong Kong right now and have gigabit Internet also (post back a few pages), but the ISPs here seem to not allow fast multiple concurrent downloads from the same stream source. So, for example, I can download updates from Apple servers as fast as they can go, but if I was to torrent say, Ubuntu, it would max out at 10MBs because they cap it. Very annoying, as I use the bit torrent protocol for my file sync, and internally in my company for fast/available sharing. Blah blah- have you seen anything similar? I'd love to see some actual download real works numbers and not just speed tests!
I haven't seen anything like that. Most of the files I download come from sources that would struggle to provide me >10MBs anyway.
As a test I can say that I have just tried a torrent for Ubuntu, it's averaging 10MBs, highest was 12.5. Only connected to 40 peers, I have new torrents set-up to connect to up-to 3000, so it's not limited there. It grabbed the file in about a minute.
Ok I guess that mirrors basically what I see here then - for direct connections where the servers can handle it I max whatever they have out (from what I can see), it's just the P2P that is a bit cumbersome.
