OK, now I'll agree that small countries have an advantage on averages. They don't have as much room to cover or people. Large rural areas (in the USA) would really bring down the average.
Yet, I really would love to have the Japanese speed! :)
When I checked out the speed of my connection, I maxed out around 12-16Mb/sec for downloads. As for upload, I can get up to 768Kb to 1MByte per second but never on one connection. When I run one upload (FTP, HTTP, etc), I get around 40KB (320Kb) before it maxes out. I use multiple streams / connections to get the full 768Kb/1MB.
Anyway, comparing the USA to countries that are physically the size of one or two of our states isn't really comparing apples to apples, in my opinion.
On the other hand, Seymour Cray who created several of the world's faster super computers had an interesting perspective -- and it worked!
Even if the computer is down from time to time what matters is the complete throughput.
While this would work for a computer, it doesn't with an Internet connection. Too bad you can't afford to have both -- cable and DSL.
I've always thought having two connections would be cool. There are routers now available that can use TWO Internet gateways (e.g. cable & DSL). This way you'd have back up plus load balancing. The cost, though, for a home really doesn't make sense.
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Date: 2008-08-12 10:30 pm (UTC)Yet, I really would love to have the Japanese speed! :)
When I checked out the speed of my connection, I maxed out around 12-16Mb/sec for downloads. As for upload, I can get up to 768Kb to 1MByte per second but never on one connection. When I run one upload (FTP, HTTP, etc), I get around 40KB (320Kb) before it maxes out. I use multiple streams / connections to get the full 768Kb/1MB.
Anyway, comparing the USA to countries that are physically the size of one or two of our states isn't really comparing apples to apples, in my opinion.
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Date: 2008-08-12 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 06:26 am (UTC)On the other hand, Seymour Cray who created several of the world's faster super computers had an interesting perspective -- and it worked!
Even if the computer is down from time to time what matters is the complete throughput.
While this would work for a computer, it doesn't with an Internet connection. Too bad you can't afford to have both -- cable and DSL.
I've always thought having two connections would be cool. There are routers now available that can use TWO Internet gateways (e.g. cable & DSL). This way you'd have back up plus load balancing. The cost, though, for a home really doesn't make sense.