http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/ Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642584 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:34:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642584 The misleading part of this story relates to speed claims. Bandwidth is not speed. It is capacity similar to a large truck. That large truck can carry a lot of data (the capacity) and still be jammed up in traffic (the network latency and round trip times).

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642321 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:54:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642321 Information on cities is nonsense because there is no guaranteed way to get the physical location of what’s behind an IP address.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642268 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:26:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642268 I am curious as to what data you gathered from Portugal.
My perception is that commercial and marketing “hype” have driven our customer internet speeds to ever demanding ones.
I work in a cable company and out average customer is far above 10Mbit.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642253 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:32:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642253 Well, Latvians have one of the biggest and fastest growing fiber optics networks (biggest in contrast to the size of the country). And 100mbps connection costs ~20bucks a month – cheap and fast.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642247 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:06:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642247 I wondered that myself although I must say I was pleasantly surprised being a Fremont resident myself. Perhaps, we should await for the actual report to be published today in the AM: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/ – according to Akamai … this was just a pre-publication by GigaOM.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642232 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:46:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642232 To explain why Lyse in Norway is up there, look for Lyse Telecom. This is a fiber network in the Stavanger area

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/state-of-the-internet-what-are-the-fastest-cities-in-the-world/#comment-642188 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:51:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=382800#comment-642188 To a casual observer, it’s surprising that there aren’t more affluent, tech company-infested places like Mountain View and Palo Alto up there with Fremont.

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