Nick Murtagh writes:
> Paolo Marchiori wrote:
> > Agree. Furthermore, keep in mind that providers usually guarantee
> > /bandwidth/ - which is different from /latency/. Download /speed/ is
>> Hmm. There is also another, far bigger issue - the connection between
> your ISP and the rest of the world. If that sucks, it doesn't really
> matter how good the connection between you and the ISP (ADSL, wireless,
> whatever) is... and I don't think any of the ISPs advertise this.
>> I had to cancel clearwire over this issue - their wireless connectivity
> was fine but they had so little upstream bandwidth that most non-Irish
> websites were unusable...
>> All the "speed tests" do is measure the speed between you and the server
> running the speed test. This gives very little indication as to whether
> your connection will be any good in any other circumstances...
Hence, you pick a representative remote server. In fact it's a pretty
good illustration of the "overall view", in my opinion.
--j.
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