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  • Offline neXus

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on: November 27, 2007, 01:22:48 AM


Still makes me laugh and cry to know what Japan has but Korea? lol

Cant wait to have New Zealand net, it has an issue of not being unbundled and so the actual average user speed is only 8-16mb with silly caps but this has been deliberately limited by their version of BT over there of which has been recently told off by the Guv and will unbundle them around now in fact

New Zealand apparently has a great network with many lines being fibre optic  so will be good from next year so that will be cool for me.

UK needs to sort themselves out, at least talk has started
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7112373.stm
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Reply #1 on: November 27, 2007, 01:36:34 AM
erm how is that chart worked out? as the highest advertised bb speed in our country is 20mbit. (24mbit if you include BE)
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Reply #2 on: November 27, 2007, 01:42:19 AM
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Reply #3 on: November 27, 2007, 02:14:07 AM
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erm how is that chart worked out? as the highest advertised bb speed in our country is 20mbit. (24mbit if you include BE)


AS sdp said, highest average
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Reply #4 on: November 27, 2007, 02:19:49 AM
On that chart NZ isnt much higher than the UK though.
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Reply #5 on: November 27, 2007, 06:58:11 AM
How comes the US is behind teh UK?
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Reply #6 on: November 27, 2007, 07:34:15 AM
Surely it would best to have Highest average implemented lines on that graph rather than advertised?

I could advise flying monkey syrup that gives you eternal youth and and eternally young women to play with but...
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Reply #7 on: November 27, 2007, 09:19:04 AM
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Id buy that for a dollar!
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Reply #8 on: November 27, 2007, 09:48:22 AM
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On that chart NZ isnt much higher than the UK though.


Yeah but it is not unbundled yet, UK is so will get faster when it does soon
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Reply #9 on: November 27, 2007, 11:37:26 AM
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How comes the US is behind teh UK?


As previously mentioned it is an average.  

My guess would be even if all the major cities were fibre optic with the amount of rural or out in the middle of no where towns it would bring the average down.
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Reply #10 on: November 27, 2007, 11:47:48 AM
Yeah a number of the big cities and funny enough Airports have amazing net speeds but for the most part a lot of the US is still on what ISDN was here and they are on what basically could be called an ISDN line or just bog standard naff broadband
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Reply #11 on: November 27, 2007, 14:47:39 PM
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Yeah a number of the big cities and funny enough Airports have amazing net speeds but for the most part a lot of the US is still on what ISDN was here and they are on what basically could be called an ISDN line or just bog standard naff broadband


Not ISDN really. Satellite internet is still popular over there.

Unfortunately though most people in rural areas have one way satellite only, means your download is done via sat (which is crap for anything other than burst transmissions, so web pages and email are fine... long downloads... crap, with your upload being anything from a 56k modem, upto dual channel isdn if youre lucky enough to have it.
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Reply #12 on: November 27, 2007, 16:30:15 PM
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erm how is that chart worked out? as the highest advertised bb speed in our country is 20mbit. (24mbit if you include BE)


AS sdp said, highest average


Yes but what do you/they mean by highest average?

seems a bit ambiguous... I mean they state it is regarding advertised speeds (so unreliable for starters) but how do they arrive at the average?  Are the providers weighted according to size/number of users?

It is basically a bit meaningless unless you know how it was constructed - I mean you can clearly see that countries like Japan, Sweeden etc.. have faster broadband but we knew that already - however there are only minor differences between a lot of the others - which could easily change their ordering depending on how the chart maker decided to use the available data.
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Reply #13 on: November 27, 2007, 18:15:10 PM
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Yeah a number of the big cities and funny enough Airports have amazing net speeds but for the most part a lot of the US is still on what ISDN was here and they are on what basically could be called an ISDN line or just bog standard naff broadband


Most of the US is on cable not ADSL. And Verizon and Comcast pretty much have the market sewn up, at least in the north east.
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Reply #14 on: November 27, 2007, 18:15:39 PM
Does anyone really care? I have 8mb here and its fast enough. Theres no application out that requires anything faster.
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