Try this speed test - fun to just watch !
http://www.speedtest.net/
Mark
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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.
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If I can believe this site my connection is even slower than I thought