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[sɛʒɔn]
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Belize City, Belize
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Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
After taking forever to upload and send a few image files to a publisher, I decided to do a speed test of my connection:
![]() They even have countries ranked by average connection speed. We're 160th out of 180 countries. Haiti is above us! HAITI!?! Our telecommunications monopoly still charges Belizeans BZD$100 (US$50) a month for a lousy 128 kb/s connection speed. If you want 512 kb/s, you have to fork out BZD$500 (USD$250), so barely anyone gets it! This has been the same package they've been offering for a decade now. Nothing's changed! But down here, there aren't really any other options. Boy, I can't wait to get to the UK so I can actually get work done at a normal pace. I read that Bristol averages 8.1 Mbps. Anyway, I invite you to test your connection speed on speedtest.net and share your results, so you can rub it in about how I'm living in a comparative digital stone age. |
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WOO!
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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Bunny Car
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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Guess who it is?
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
My network crashed on the upload test.
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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Roadside Cheese Camera
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
The new router my dad got hates my computer (and everything else that connects via wifi), and routinely drops my connection speed, or will disconnect me for hours on end. he refuses to let me replace it.
This is how much of an asshole the router is being right now.
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Red, white, and sore.
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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[sɛʒɔn]
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Belize City, Belize
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
Wow, Ryner, are you secretly in Berkeley, California?
Or Seoul??? Quote:
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Bunny Car
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
Are those the high-speed capitals of the world or something?
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WOO!
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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[sɛʒɔn]
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Belize City, Belize
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
I think according to the Akamai report, Berkeley was one of the fastest cities in the world, but that might have changed.
On a country-wide scale, South Korea is far ahead of everyone else. I guess to cater to the fact that they're all spending their lives in MMORPG's. ![]() UK's average is 3.5 Mbps. What can I say? I'm residentially promiscuous. And the British Commonwealth of Nations is a seductive mistress. Well, except for India and Pakistan and a few others.
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Merry as a school boy
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
Honestly, when I hear Belize, it reminds me of when it's said in the Carmen Sandiego song.
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understands the concept.
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
What? Romania is number four? Too bad my cable company charges exorbitant prices to take advantage of that!
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[sɛʒɔn]
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
Yea, Romania's position was very random to me. But if it's ranked so high, it must mean a significant portion of the population has access to those kinds of speeds.
Maybe they're just gypping you because you're American. ![]() EDIT: Haha, gypping! Because it's the land of the gypsies after all! Sometimes I'm so unintentionally clever!
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Lord of the Nickels
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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The Internet
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
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Donkey Electron
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
![]() Looks like I win! For what matters to me the most, anyhow. I can live without fast downloads, but UPLOADS are the most important thing to me. I do a lot of animation and am constantly uploading huge files. While lots of folks show much higher download speeds, I seem to have a really good upload speed, and that pleases me |
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WOO!
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
Providers like to throttle upload speeds, they think it puts a stop to file sharing.
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Bunny Car
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
No Rodak, I'm winning. You download like every second, in fact you're downloading me as you read this. That's way more important, regardless of your cognitive dissonance and it's "oh gee my upload speeds are the best but my download speed sucks so it's a good thing I like uploading so much more than downloading".
P.S. we use the same server
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i can draw yaaaaaay
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Re: Check out how far behind Belize's internet is! Hooray!
My internet speed didn't even break 1.00. I'm super disappointed at my dad's internet.
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