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x5ga:
Is it wrong to calculate how well developed a country is by the average speed its inhabitants get while downloading/uploading, the cost of Internet access, and also by the bandwidth the users have? Because that's what I'm doing. And it seems that my country is at least in the top15. Lol, we're 6th place at both Upload and Download. I'm not going abroad ever.
Who cares if you don't have food as long as you get a full duplex 100Mb/s line with unlimited bandwidth at the price of a loaf of bread.
Pentium100:
Well, smaller countries tend to have better connections :)
Also: http://speedtest.net/global.php Lithuania is #2 by the average download and upload speeds and only cell phone connections have limited bandwidth.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: x5ga on November 09, 2010, 09:56:35 AM ---Is it wrong to calculate how well developed a country is by the average speed its inhabitants get while downloading/uploading, the cost of Internet access, and also by the bandwidth the users have? Because that's what I'm doing. And it seems that my country is at least in the top15.
Who cares if you don't have food as long as you get a full duplex 100Mb/s line with unlimited bandwidth at the price of a loaf of bread.
--- End quote ---
Canada is first world but it's connection sucks.
per:
--- Quote from: x5ga on November 09, 2010, 09:56:35 AM ---d as long as you get a full duplex 100Mb/s line with unlimited bandwidth at the price of a loaf of bread.
--- End quote ---
Sorry to rant a little, but..
I wonder where the practice to call transfer caps "bandwidth" came from.
It's really, really inaccurate. Bandwidth is the speed of the connection (technically, the width of the electromagnetic band used to transfer information, but in computing it is usually seen as bits per second instead, since that is more relevant).
What US people seems to call "bandwidth" is total data/month (usually).
It´s very much like saying "I use 600 kilo-watts per month", a usage i have seen in the US too, now that I think about it. :)
x5ga:
--- Quote from: per on November 09, 2010, 07:19:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: x5ga on November 09, 2010, 09:56:35 AM ---d as long as you get a full duplex 100Mb/s line with unlimited bandwidth at the price of a loaf of bread.
--- End quote ---
Sorry to rant a little, but..
I wonder where the practice to call transfer caps "bandwidth" came from.
It's really, really inaccurate. Bandwidth is the speed of the connection (technically, the width of the electromagnetic band used to transfer information, but in computing it is usually seen as bits per second instead, since that is more relevant).
What US people seems to call "bandwidth" is total data/month (usually).
It´s very much like saying "I use 600 kilo-watts per month", a usage i have seen in the US too, now that I think about it. :)
--- End quote ---
lol, sorry for my mistake. I have no idea why I used that word, since I know it's wrong. I was posting from my phone while "tending" to some patients in the hospital and probably lost track of what I wanted to say in the middle of the sentence.
My sincere apologies :)
But my point still stands, on a list of important things, the top 3 are: air, drinks, fast internet.
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