Comments on: I’ll be honest: bandwidth makes me feel like a god

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:40:51 +0000

That’s why the US is 17th or so in broadband quality. ‘kin capitalism.

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:01:47 +0000

Thanks for agreeing that it's impressive, but in the earlier post I link to above, I was clocking 26Mb/s with servers located near me. Still, 10Mb/s is a very respectable throughput, and speaks highly of the infrastructure Ubuntu has managed to orchestrate. Use the SpeedTest site to see what you got on your line. Although I've read that Comcast tricks these services by allowing max throughput for the first several seconds of a connection (long enough for these tests to run), then throttles it hard. It's a "feature."

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:15 +0000

Ten megs a second? Hot diggity damn, my personal computer would be hepped up on dance remixes and nudie movies in no time!

At home I may get 3Mb/s tops. I am tempted to move to Germany for the high-speed Internet and also for Claudia Schiffer. Reow.