Speedtest.net
- February 23, 2007
- 6 comments
That was my best result from Speedtest.net, a broadband connection analysis tool. They’ve recently updated their already cool site and added some new features like speed averages, comparisons between countries, continents and downloadable results.
What speeds do you get?
That sounds pretty cool, especially if you can adjust the size of the pipe for either TV or Internet depending on what you’re doing.
I know here in the US there’s a big push to get broadband to more remote areas. It’s easy to find fat pipes in the cities and developed areas, but nearly impossible in rural areas like where my parents live. My parents got lucky and were just close enough to get DSL, but a friend of mine near them can’t because he’s too far from the box. He’s paying through the nose for satellite which sucks for any kind of online gaming.
Russ
February 24, 2007
Russ
February 25, 2007
Shortly after I posted my speeds on here last night, I tried the test again, this time measuring off the server in Chicago. The upload speed still sucked the same, but the download speed exceeded 14000 kb/s, and they are over 400 miles away.
I would have thought, with Austin and all of it’s technology centers, would have much larger communication pipes, for transferring information. In other words, Austin should be the Autobahn of the information highwway.
Hey Chris,
Even though North America still beats Europe in Internet Speeds (according to Speedtest) things are picking up over here in Switzerland. We just got BluewinTV which is TV over ADSL (kind of like TiVo with two tuners and an ethernet port at the back) It works surprisingly well and according to the new VDSL router that came with it my speed now is 16512/1152 (kbps). Unfortunately most of it is used for the TV content and all that speed is not available for browsing. According to Speedtest I still am running at around 3799kb/s down and 366kb/s up. Hopefully they will be changing that sometime this year though – shouldn’t be too hard to scale it back and forth depending if we are watching TV or not.