Global "Last Mile" Performance Stats Going Public 233
Ookla, the company behind Speedtest.net, Pingtest.net, and the bandwidth testing apps deployed at many ISPs, has gone public with Net performance stats from 1.5 billion users (and counting). Their Net Index page displays download speed, upload speed, and connection "quality" from the EU and the G8, to countries, worldwide cities, and US states. Beginning today, the company is also making detailed (anonymized) data available to academics. "Ookla will also start surveying users about how much they pay for broadband and how much bandwidth they were promised by their ISPs. The results of those questions will go into building a Value Index, which will show how much people around the world pay per megabit-per-second for Internet access. In addition, by collecting postal codes from Speedtest users, Ookla hopes to map broadband service to local economic conditions, Apgar said. The Speedtest data could give the US government far more information to work with in setting priorities for its National Broadband Plan..."
Moldova? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moldova? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm more interested in Tanzania. I'm not quite sure what the scale on either direction is, but it looks like it's zero to... something... halfway through. What, did the first person in Tanzania get broadband in the middle of the month?
Anyway, cheers to all of us for being ahead of North Korea. At the end of the day, when we think our country has thoroughly embarrassed and disappointed us, we can still usually say "At least we're not in North Korea."
I mean, in some contexts. Having a deity for a dear leader, for example, we're still trailing...
Re:Moldova? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm more interested in Tanzania. I'm not quite sure what the scale on either direction is, but it looks like it's zero to... something... halfway through. What, did the first person in Tanzania get broadband in the middle of the month?
Must be one of those flights with on-board wifi passing through their airspace.
Re:Moldova? (Score:3, Funny)
. Having a deity for a dear leader, for example, we're still trailing...
Not very far. Mr Jobs is very close to ascending.
Re:The US looks pretty terrible. (Score:2, Funny)
therwise, I see other countries out innovate us all the time.
Yeah but we still out-innovate them in the blowing things up category. America, fuck yeah!
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Just what website do you think this is?
If we are talking point to point, then yes you are correct. However, if that were really true than broadband companies would be lying to us and screwing us over. That clearly can't be true, so you must be wrong.
Re:The US looks pretty terrible. (Score:3, Funny)
In all fairness half of Canada is drunk at one moment. Everything seems to be faster up there.