What’s the First Thing a Geek Does When He Gets to Japan?
He tests the bandwidth at the place where he’s staying of course! Check this out…
17 mbps downstream? Wow - that’s fast. At home in Calgary I’m on a 10 mbps connection and it’s really more like 9 mbps. The upstream speed isn’t that impressive though - I have a solid 1 mbps at home - so this is probably DSL. Unfortunately, as fast as it is, the router seems to not like my laptop, I keep having to unplug it to get an IP address.
[OK, this post is mostly a joke, this is certainly not the first thing I did when we got here, but I haven't had time to write about our adventures thus far...hopefully today on the train I'll have a good two hours to process my photos and write.]
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March 22nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
We have ADSL2+ here in Perth, which can get us up to 24Mbps downstream. Do they offer something similar in Canada?
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 am
Nope. In Calgary, the fastest consumer-grade Internet access is the 10 mbps that I have - well, technically my ISP (Shaw) does offer 25 mbps downstream and 1 mbps upstream, but it’s $99/month, which is rather crazy. What I really want is more upstream - 10 mbps is fast enough for nearly everything at the moment…
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
You should get more work done on vacation with that speed.
March 24th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Chris,
That would kind of defeat the purpose of a vacation, wouldn’t it?