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Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Machell Sent: Tue 8/15/2006 10:34 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Australian Internet speed On 15/08/2006, at 6:58 PM, Thinus van Rensburg wrote: > Now this is puzzling me - I thought that Australia was lagging very > far > behind the rest of the developed world - I realise that this is not > necessarily a representative sample of all users in the countries on > this list but I'm pretty impressed by the Australian results - am I > missing something here? I'm not sure there's a big enough sample here. Check out the speeds available in different countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Broadband_Internet_access_worldwide Japan is leading the world with their fibre penetration but such a lot of high bandwidth presents the problem of the ISPs running out of bandwidth. > I am disappointed by my own results - the best download speed I get > here > in Canberra is about 3.2 Mbps and up around 0.7 Mbps. The same plan > gives other users in the Sydney area 20Mbps down and 0.9 up. You're doing a lot better than most of the country. Broadband is defined as anything faster then 256kb p/s download. I think the line should be drawn at 512kb p/s upload, the speed with which it becomes useful for more then web browsing and e-mail. cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
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