Another Kind of Speedwave

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Urmas

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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)
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Within the country:
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The neighbouring countries:
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Some European servers:
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Some North American servers:
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China, Hong Kong & the Philippines:
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Urmas -- 2 fast 4 you :fool:
 
:(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.
 
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.)
 
Two years later; speeds have increased significantly within Europe — again, seen from Helsinki/Espoo, gigabit connection:


Finland

Espoo
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Helsinki
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Turku
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Vaasa
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Sweden

Stockholm
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Malmö
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Norway

Oslo
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Bergen
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Trondheim
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Bodø
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Alta
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Denmark

Copenhagen
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Odense
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Sonderborg
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Estonia

Tallinn
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Latvia

Riga
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Lithuania

Vilnius
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Poland

Poznan
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Russia

St. Petersburg
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Moscow
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Belarus

Minsk
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Germany

Hamburg
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Munich
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The Netherlands

Amsterdam
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Hilversum
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The Czech Republic

Prague
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Slovakia

Bratislava
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Hungary

Budapest
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Bulgaria

Sofia
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Great Britain

London
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Newcastle
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France

Paris
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Marseille
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Switzerland

Zurich
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Spain

Madrid
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Italy

Rome
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Greece

Athens
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Urmas — still got speed
 
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