| Speed This report should be viewed with a grain of salt. Distance to test point has a large impact on discoved data. I can take a speed test to my carriers local switch station 10 miles away or a dept of energy test site 1 mile away and get speed figures within 5% of the cap I pay to achieve. If I take another test in s korea I'm only getting 35% of my speed. I see no way you can set a standard for the results that are being reported, nor did I see an explanation of how they standardized their test results across the countries they tested. Of course many other factors play a role in the speed that broadband connections achieve. Most importantly, the choice to have a cheap and realitively slow connection. I know my isp will sell a $20 1.5 meg connection or a $65 20 meg connection and many speeds in between.
I'm curious to see what speeds are on the 4g cell networks when they start rolling out. I saw that DoCoMo reached 5/gb in tests about 6 months ago. I also wonder if they will start marketing to consumers or businesses for non-mobile access. I can't fathom a smartphone that could put speeds of that measure to any practical use. |
