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Broadband around the world

October 4, 2007 | 3 Comments | Joshua Gans

So in my travels around the world I have been testing the speed of the internet connection. Through most of the US, the best I got was about 1.5Mbps (both up and download). My hotel in Japan was slower but the JAL Lounge had me going at 8Mbps. Here in Hong Kong, the speeds were about 1Mbps but at the Disneyland Hollywood Hotel it is at 3Mbps. All about the same as my BigPond Cable Extreme at home and on a par with NextG except for both of those upload speeds were slow. Given the number of pictures we have been posting, I wouldn’t want to be a traveller in Australia! [All of these tests were to a point of connection at San Jose, CA, which should have given a leg up to the US tests].


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3 Responses to “Broadband around the world”

  1. Pat on October 5th, 2007 3:19 pm

    I suppose if you were a traveller in Australia, and you wanted to send your photos to your family in the US, it would be cheaper and faster to mail a DVD than to use Australian broadband.

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  3. Bernard Mansell on February 13th, 2008 1:34 pm

    I live in australia and what they call broadband hear is more like dial up. they government hav been telling us for years that they will fix the problem but like all goverments they talk alot of crap. if you come to australia bring your own satalite dish for your laptop.